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This is a question that often comes into my head, more often because I'm heavily invested in the car world, but is also relevant in bikes and watches.
Does it piss anyone else off, that essentially if you have a tonne of cash, people think you're some sort of timeless artistic fashion icon?
I see it most with "show cars". Someone buys a very expensive bodykit, some very expensive wheels and suspension, a paint job, and all of a sudden they're lauded as a visionary. "nobody dared do this before!" Well, most likely the pool of people with enough disposable income to do such a "build" is very small already, then out of that very few are even interested. It all just comes down to someone having money.
On Pistonheads (don't bother going on there), there's a thread dedicated to "really good number plates". The people who have the "best" number plates are people who have one or two letters and one or two numbers. There's nothing hard about having one of those, no thought required, no vision, you just need to pick up a phone and hand over your card details to someone who will bid at an auction on your behalf and boom, you have a "really good number plate".
Is it impressive that someone who earns 7 figures has some expensive watches? They can literally choose whatever they want, it's not like they didn't eat 3 meals a day for 10 years to save up for their first Rolex, and that's the level of commitment there, they just buy a watch that a lot of people really like but can't afford.
I just find it mind boggling that this is deemed to be impressive.