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Thanks to having learnt more about watches on this thread, when a consultant turned up at my office to ‘fix’ things wearing a £10k watch, I felt pretty convinced that we weren’t getting value for money.
Surprise surprise - we did very little of what they recommended because they didn’t understand our business. And we paid them too much money for the work.
I like automatic watches, and I appreciate the good ones cost more - but after a certain point they seem like a signifier for how much cash you have. All the high-ranking officials from dodgy countries that I meet seem have stupidly expensive watches - unless they actually know what they’re talking about, in which case they have nice but not extravagant watches. Sometimes even classic digitals that aren’t worth much but indicate a certain appreciation for good technology. When, for example, I’ve met officials from state-owned energy producers in resource-rich countries, the political guys are all flashing £10k-plus skeletonised or overbuilt wrist jewellery, while the analysts and hard-nosed evidence-based decision-makers who I really want to talk to might have a nice, simple pilot or diver or a Casio digital. Or no watch at all because their phone does it.