We romanticize what we cannot have, whether watches, automobiles, homes...women, etc. The reality is often (always?) very different. Once attained, there's always some new peak to climb. This is not to say that there aren't so-called "exit" watches, but t...
Only way is to control own desires and willingness to settle. I understand very clearly I cannot have everything and anything so I’ve learned to let go. Always my challenge, if a very nice item can be bought everywhere or selling at discounted price, nega...
It's not an ascetic approach by any means...just a realistic approach...desires in the abstract can be endless whereas resources and even realistic expectations have boundaries.
The admiration for those things that are (just) out of reach may lead to desire and desire will lead to motivation to seek ways of acquiring what you want. If it remains out of reach, and admiration and desire are in balance, it will stay there peacefully...
I agree...striving for something better is good motivation -- not knocking that at all -- but the cycle of acquisition, disappointment, romanticizing the next one, acquisition ... ad infinitum, is a fool's errand. I am most certainly not objecting to loft...
. . . in realistic expectations. ;-) These days, all I really, really want is another Stones tour. Material stuff is just . . . stuff. O'Toole . . . . . . said it best.
That being said, I think finding the "perfect" watch is more about understanding what your own priorities are and having the knowledge of what's available on the market to find one that satisfies all of them.
And perfect is a slippery slope as you pile on more requirements. But doesn't stop us from reaching for them. Besides.... "the best things in life are already free. It's just the second best things are very, very expensive." Just be content when you feel ...
The incremental few % (say from 95% "perfect" to 99% "perfect"...whatever that means) costs many multiples as much. The second-best things are indeed very, very expensive.
is one my father wore in the 1940s during the war in Europe. He gave it to a fellow soldier before an engagement because he had a premonition he would be a causality. He was indeed wounded but not fatally. After the war his comrade sent it back to him. I ...
Luxury goods in general invert the usual laws of supply and demand: the higher the price (or more constrained the supply), the greater the demand. Crazy human nature.