39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors dont blink, and even go for seconds.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEW YORK — Time has never been more ubiquitous and in your face. It’s on the phone, the computer, the car and every blasted appliance.

“You don’t need a watch to tell the time,” confesses timepiece connoisseur Watch Anish at a midtown Manhattan cocktail party celebrating luxury watches. (Real name: Anish Bhatt, but as an Instagram brand, he’s so beyond that.)

You hear this observation plenty in the haute horology world, even from people selling ­six-figure timepieces.

Also, that a Timex tells pretty good time.

But facts matter not a second hand to obsessive collectors, almost all of whom are male, in a market where $15,000 models are deemed “middle-class” timepieces.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/porsches-for-your-wrist-inside-the-world-of-luxury-watches/2016/11/25/70218556-947f-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments

[jberryhill]

1. These are items of jewelry

Just as shocking a revelation would be "Very Expensive Jewelry Is Sold".

[backscatter712]

2. Yep.

They have plenty of gold, gems, etc. And they're great works of craftsmanship, especially when made the old-fashioned way, using springs and gears and regulating mechanisms, instead of oscillator crystals and semiconductors.

The ten dollar digital watch works fine, but that's not art and jewelry like a Rolex. Of course, I don't have the money or inclination for a Rolex.

[pansypoo53219]

3. the rich have TOO much money & need to be TAXED at least 50%.