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Jonathan Kay: The joy of wearing a crappy watch Jonathan Kay | January 6, 2014 | Last Updated: Jan 7 9:03 AM ET More from Jonathan Kay | @jonkay Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Email Comments More Tumblr Pinterest Reddit Digg FarkIt StumbleUpon watches Back from vacation, I’m working my way through the pile of late-December copies of The New York Times stacked up in my front hallway. The news therein is two weeks stale. But I never get tired of checking out those beautiful holiday gift-season wristwatch ads. swiss replica watches Pulling out a December edition of the Times at random, page 2 invites me to consider a Cartier: “Collection starting at $7,400.” On the next page is the Oris “Depth Gauge” at $3,500. Deeper into the A-section, one finds a Longines model, from “The Saint-Imier Collection,” at $4,525. More obscure and prestigious brands also are featured, but without any dollar amount indicated — the implicit message being “If you have to ask ….” all brand watches Though you wouldn’t know it from what I now wear on my wrist, this is a world I recognize. When I graduated from university a quarter century ago, my father gave me an ultra-fancy self-winding Swiss watch that was the envy of my young friends. Over the next two decades, I acquired two more watches of similar value — one as a gift, and another in barter with my cousin Danny. high quality replica watches These three specimens — which I rotated monthly for many years, in the same way that a woman might rotate handbags — were a big deal for me. It made my day if a stranger complimented my watch. My wife, meanwhile, wore a $7 wristwatch she’d bought on Canal Street before we got married. I told her it was the equivalent of using a plastic shopping bag as a purse. high quality swiss replica watches One thing I had to admit, though: My wife was punctual. Her battery-operated model, cheap as it was, actually kept perfect time. My fancy Swiss self-winding timepiece, on the other hand, lost 30 seconds per day. If I forgot to reset the time on a regular basis, I could find myself running 15 minutes late by the end of the month. fake watches When I brought the watch into the name-branded repair shop — a suitably impressive place with a guard, lots of glass and attractive young women wearing business suits — I was surprised to learn that this is actually somewhat normal behavior for this particular brand: The sophisticated self-winding mechanism behaves erratically depending on what you do with your wrist (oh, grow up). Still, it looked great. Same with the second watch I owned, an Omega Speedmaster (which required hand-winding, and lost a mere 15 seconds per day). My next-door neighbour Craig had the same watch, and we sometimes would just sit there examining each other’s timepieces, assuring each other how cool they were. But one thing that was uncool was the cost of maintenance. In 2010, I dropped my Omega on a hard tile floor and the bezel fell off. When I brought it in for servicing, I was told that the thing had to be sent to Switzerland, and that it would take six months to get it back. Oh, and the bill (which I have kept) would be $1,519.85. At the time, this was literally more than the value of the car I drove. But I paid it. In the same year, I also paid $600 in “scheduled maintenance” for the ultra-fancy Swiss self-winder — even after my wife forced me to stop wearing it because I was always late. That was just three years ago. But watch-wise, it feels like those experiences, those bills, belong to a different human being. My transformation began a few months ago, when I smashed my Omega against the side of a formica tabletop at Wendy’s, as I was (unsuccessfully) lunging to rescue a cup of chili my child had knocked over. The thing stopped working. There was no way my wife was going to let me spend another $1,519.85 on watch repair. So I put the thing in a drawer, next to the self-winder, and went full-time to my one remaining watch. That lasted six weeks, until I forgot to take the thing off before getting into the shower. The waterproofing had worn out years ago. It was wrecked, pending another massively expensive repair job. By this time, the battery in my wife’s $7 Canal Street watch finally had worn out, after yielding her a decade of service. (That’s 0.2¢ per day of watch use, compared to the $1.09 per day in maintenance alone that, according to my calculations, I paid during the same period for my own watch trio.) But that didn’t bother her because she now uses no watch. “I always have a smartphone on me,” she said. “And so do you. If you haven’t noticed, your BlackBerry has a clock.” I tried that for a month. But I still found myself reflexively staring down at my left wrist every time I wanted to know the time. I needed a new watch. Then, two weeks ago, as I was walking with my children through a shabby connecting passage between two downtown shopping malls, my daughter pointed to a shoe-repair kiosk and said “Daddy, that man is selling watches.” I ambled over, and saw a dusty display case full of no-name timepieces and other cheap merchandise. Needless to say, I was unimpressed. But my children — too young to know quality from crap — were geared up about the possibility of picking out a new watch for me. “How much for … that one?” I halfheartedly asked, pointing to the one they liked best. One sticker on the watch announced that it was from China, while another said it had been “assembled” in Singapore. It was a plain silver model, with the brand written in tiny, cramped, illegible script on the watch face. When I squinted, it kind of look

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