It's almost like poll, but certainly more fun

i understand you for sure even if i dont do it myself...

And i apologize for my "snubbish intellectual " post and as usual my too serious mood in your humorous thread.....😁

I was too  happy to take the occasion to talk "books"... 😊

@maghister,

As soon as I got ca$h, I buy...

I do buy musical artifacts. I prefer for instance Rolex or Patek instead of cash. Sometimes I like diamonds and certainly do like firearms, not because of their violent nature, but because of their overall value.

A Timex will tell you the time just as well as a Rolex but perspective matters. If I were a watch collector instead of an audiophile ,I would undoubtedly stick with the watch. If I just considered it a piece of timekeeping jewelry, I would sell it to get something more practical to me.

Disregarding personal likes and obsessions, IMHO, a two tone daytona will hold its value better. Also, depending on the exact model, and its particular provenance, the daytona will appreciate more and more quickly than most if not all stereo components. In general, again IMHO, stereo components, like most cars, are depreciating assets.  There are tricks and procedures, though, hence the hobby.

To stick on the Thread matter, i only buy pocket watch because i cannot put anything around my wrist, it annoy me...😁

And i buy the best value : chinese 1 bucks battery pocket watch from aliexpress...I stick one on my bike and i put another in my pocket...😁

Watch as dac are sometimes very overpriced....

The only watchs i really like are hourglass models...

They can be more expansive than rolex...😊

One hourglass from the Medicis or from Leonardo Da Vinci for example...

To see time flowing we need an hourglass...I prefer one hour duration hourglass then big one...

https://www.amazon.ca/Hourglass-timers-White-Black-Frame/dp/B06X9CGGCW/ref=asc_df_B06X9CGGCW/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=578910290399&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16379733334093763673&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000325&hvtargid=pla-414225150917&th=1

An hourglass is to a watch what the world is to a book...

We read the book of the world without knowing that it is the only book we are in and reading it at the same times...

We dont look at a number indicating an abstract hour with an hourglass as with a watch , we flow ourself with time, knowing that we can also "stop" time by reversing the hourglass with an act of free will... Then time  may come back to his source...

Time become a superstition as the world itself become an idolatry if we forget that we read them as we wish it at the end ...

«The fact that my wife wait for me for dinner is not the result of any superstition but certainly result from some form of well placed idolatry»-- Groucho Marx 🤓