Meh, I waste money on other things, lol. I can't even have anything on my body, whether watches, bracelets, rings - they just irritate me. If I had a pile of cash burning a hole in my wallet, I'd waste it on a million other things before I'd even consider a watch.

 

Same. I like good quality stuff but I don't care about branded stuff, in fact I avoid it. My wife doesn't like it either, thankfully! Same with Jewlery.

 

Older watches have a certain elegance to them that modern watches dont have. Everything is so over styled and over decorated now. Similarly, vintage cars are so elegant, simple and pretty.

I hope the new Toyota GR GT will have that level of simplicity.

 

Branded stuff?

The watches that people buy are usually timeless pieces that have intricate movements, heritage etc.

 

I wasn’t into watches until I was into watches. A great friend put me on and explained things to me. Everything has appreciated and one day my son hopefully gets them.

And in certain rooms that’s what people look at. Which I was also schooled on. It is what it is.

 

Do we have a watch thread?

To relate to the LFA there are LFA watches.

 

Ye we all have different hobbies - I definitely waste the most on cars

 

Can you share pics / info?

Porsche has a bunch of watches now to milk the 911 GT buyers as an added ADM, I think they are close to $10k 😳

 

that sounds like something that came from me haha... i've also seen the quote "you wear a rolex to impress others, you wear a grand seiko to impress yourself" (sounds like something someone who can't afford a rolex would say )

but honestly the LFA is so bespoke and so artisan it's up there with something like an f.p. journe since the 'regular' luxury watch brands no longer even apply

i still feel lucky to have gotten to see an LFA in the wild, it was only this once but holy **** in person it really does look the part... WAY more exotic looking than an R35 that people liked to compare it to

 

that was my first move, simple automatic field watch for $200


funnily enough my watch that has gone up by far the most in value is my 2nd seiko the SARB035


discontinued without a direct successor is often a good formula for holding value

 

We're talking about things other than watches...

 

It’s a collab they did with Meister. Automatic but an okay movement. More something to have than wear.

 

just like you getting mb, people get seiko.

they are all "branded stuff"

at lesat from driving point of view, i hope it's pure

i know, what did i do? i made one analogy and half the posts here are about watches

 

yes, it's just so rare. only around 180 came to the US and god know how many are gone (or stowed away). outside of the one my friend owns, i have only seen one in the wild. and i am in socal where there are "quite a few" of them

compared to my gt2rs where i have seen no less than 10 around.

very simple but classy/elegant look, beautiful!

and that's one big reason why the value of lfa keeps going up!

 

I mean stuff with brand labels plastered all over it. Kind of like the latest MBs...which means this might be my last MB.