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Opinion: Don’t Buy a Birth Year Watch (Or, Do it When You’re Young) |
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I have a birthday coming up later this year, and according to custom, math, and the Netflix algorithm that is serving me a heavy dose of mid-90s action thrillers, it?s a fairly big one. It?s the type of birthday that sometimes results in an extravagant purchase, a treat-yourself moment that is often parodied and mocked. Indeed, reader, I have mocked these types of indulgences, and I still think the guy who has been happily driving a Camry for years suddenly finding his love for sports cars at the beginning of a new decade of life is a little silly. Still, I?m drawn to the idea of buying myself a special watch to mark the occasion later this year, and I?ve been thinking about what that might be. Certainly there have been a whole lot of great new releases that have caught my eye even in the very recent past, and there are longstanding, back-of-mind grails that I casually track on all the places you track such a thing. But there?s one category I absolutely will not be exploring, one that I?ve always been a little puzzled by. Of course, I?m talking about the birth year watch.
Fact: these are all birth year Speedmasters (for somebody)
Recently I?ve come across a flurry of Instagram posts and advertisements from watch dealers hawking Rolexes and other luxury watches from the early 90s and describing them as ?birth year watches.? This is ridiculous on its face: every watch is a birth year watch, after all. And if these dealers are trying to micro target younger millennials and Gen-Z types, you?ve failed, because I?m an Old. More to the point, this seems like the ultimate in imbuing meaning into a watch where there is absolutely none. Even I, someone as stone hearted as you?re likely to encounter when it comes to sentimentality around physical hunks of steel, can understand developing a connection with an object you?ve spent a life with. But to pluck something from a dealer case, or in this instance the void of Instagram, and tell yourself that you are now connected to it because you share a birth year is a concept I have a hard time grappling with. Why not birth year shoes" Or a birth year computer" Sneaker collectors and fans of vintage electronics, this is your cue to flood the comments. I get that there?s historical value in these things because they are literally part of history, but the random nature of a watch (or anything) being approximately the same age as the collector doesn?t strike me as being particularly noteworthy.
I want to be clear here and point out that in the course of discussing this idea with watch collector friends and colleagues, there is sometimes confusion about what a ?birth year watch? actually is, and I?d like to say in the strongest possible terms that if a birth year watch to you is a watch bought for a child (especially your child) in their birth year to be gifted to them at an appropriate time, I think that is not only perfectly OK but actually quite a wonderful gesture, and seems to me like a g...
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Fuente de la noticia: wornandwound
Fecha de publicación: 24-05-2022 19:50
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