Every watch above $100 is an over complication.... Just for the looks. And this one had top tier looks and originality.
The Freak - was really cool to look at in real life. When it comes to how it felt, not sure what to think. It is titanium with a rubber strap and a very cheap feeling clasp, resulting in a toy-like feel (very light and rubbery). The clasp kept opening by mistake and did not feel robust.
Guess it is part of the experience, this watch does not feel as any other £22k watch that I have tried. It was comfortable though and it did feel like a real enthusiast playground, unique and fun.
As others have said, the Omega bracelet feels substantially below the Rolex one in terms of quality. It felt like a rattly fake president bracelet to me when i tried it... Therefore between the two I do think that the DJ is the better option.
Commercial Pilots would still use Rolex, its effectively an office job where you sit all day and then use your watch to impress the stewardesses.
The biggest waste of money collection that I have ever seen on these forums and that is saying a lot.
Can't believe people upvote it tbh, such a waste of money for insane repetition. Perhaps the guy is a used watch dealer and this is a meme...
Honestly, Longines and similar brands in the 1k-5k range are not here nor there. They are not value for money, there are so many sub 300 brands that do almost the same (e.g. San Martin, Sugess, Orient etc). But they aren't luxury either, the feeling you get from Rolex, Omega etc. is very different to a Longines / Hamilton.
For variety, budget bangers. For the feel of luxury Rolex. At least that's how I see it. With Longines you pay a LOT for the name and it being Swiss, same quality can be had much cheaper and the name doesn't actually mean much outside of a small watch world.
Tool vs jewelry depends on the cost ratio between the cost of the tool and the jewelry value.
A $40 casio will show time more accurately and is more legible than pretty much any automatic Swiss watch. So if you buy say a $400 watch, at most 10% of the cost is the "tool" element and the rest of the 90% you pay for the jewelry / looks element, hence it is more of a apparel item than a tool. For a 4k watch, 99% of the value is jewelry and so on.
Same goes for anything really. You need a T-shirt so it is a tool, but a branded nice Ralph Lauren shirt costs 50x what a cotton china made shirt is going for, hence it is more for looks rather than a warmth tool.
Depends on what you are going for. Imo a watch should be below 300 or above 5000. The in between is almost always not here not there. Orient, Bulova, Chinese AliExpress brands etc. Can make a sub 300 watch that feels the same as a 1-2k watch in a high street store...
But then you get to 5-10k and thats where you start getting luxury brand recognition and feel.
Wellcome to luxury... Brand recognition is determined by marketing and ads. How often do you see a Zenith ad?
The reason people recognise say Omega is because Omega seem to shove ads everywhere you look, billboards, Olympics, James Bond movies and so on. Without that Omega would be less known than Zenith probably.
Don't know what you see in those Blancpains tbh.