When I drive home from work I usually pass by a low-income, but safe community somewhere in the middle of my journey home. In truth I’m not sure what they’re all about, nor do I really care, but one thing I do know is that they like to modify their cars A LOT!
Personally I think it looks really cool. These kids have these everyday cars like Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, etc. and they go about fitting huge spoilers, body kits, tinted windows, and noisy exhausts to them so they look and sound like racing cars.
It all looks really good, and it all looks really professional, and it all looks really cool!
The problem is though, that every so often I get next to one of these highly-modified “racing” cars at a red light. I then acclerate in absolute quietness and comfort while the car next to me, while looking cool and making ungodly amounts of noise, isn’t actually going any faster. It’s all a lot of noise, but not a whole lot of performance. In other words, it’s sh**!
Well I’m actually not going to go there with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, because it just wouldn’t seem right, but if you look at this watch:
You can’t tell me that it doesn’t at least LOOK like it means business!
And that’s the problem I have with this watch, and many watches like this. It’s got the garnish of high performance toughness, such as the angular bezel, the bold numeral markings, bands made of diving watch materials such as stainless steel and rubber, and it’s got these awesome screws on the bezel which look as though they were fashioned from the rivets of a battleship.
For the price you would HOPE the watch is as tough as it looks, but it is the unfortunate case that they really are not…
Sure they aren’t going to fall apart should you happen to drop it on the carpet, but it really isn’t any different or any tougher than any other watch you’d find in this price range, or even half it’s price range for that matter.
The depth rating is pretty standard and the watch has got a butterfly/hidden clasp which, while pretty and more fluid-looking as it hides the clasp mechanism, is less secure than your standard sport’s watch clasp.
No I’m afraid that this is just another fashion accessory for the big and bold watch fans out there.
I think it’s great, who needs toughness in a watch anyway?
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