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Sunday, May 8, 2022

History of world stuff (and "abstemious" wristwatches)


 


If I had a zenith watch, it would be a legacy brand engulfed and devoured long ago
by Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton,
known to their friends as "LVMH."

It's this gargantuan conglomerate in Europe.

I wondered (Because I wonder stuff sometimes) if "Fidelity Investments" and their kind-of hot CEO had any interest in LVMH.

Beeeeeeeeeecause, if you play the "Who owns" game, you eventually find God at the top, owning everything everywhere.

Bernard Arnault @LVMH
(LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE)
No shit? 




https://www.lvmh.com/houses/watches-jewelry/

"Our ships must all sail in the same" (o nvm)


Richemont owns Piaget (It's farther down on this page)







 I'll just say here that they look respectable and don't have outrageous prices.
The whole "Zenith"-thing was an answer to a question "Who makes the most accurate watch,"
but maybe I *should* have asked "Who makes the most accurate affordable watch"
And Pontius Pilate / Caligula might reply, "What is Affordable?"


I noticed that the group of watches under the Swatch group includes the "Harry Winston" group.
I never heard of the guy and just wondered what his watches were like.
Understated "white gold" (the diamond-framed one is available for the more ostentatious)











franck muller "cintree curvex 8880 cc at"
I don't really know why I included the watch, 
Maybe I liked the band-color?
(link)


I had a nice link here to my 2022 (or so) watch's movement, but the link is dead and gone.
Writing a webpage with mostly links, only works for a month or so, and this here page wasn't really updated for years.


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forty-four-thousand plus, $100 (that's kind of like, one-million plus 99-cents.)
It means something, I just don't know what.
But if you live a life of austerity
comes in 4 sizes

In writing this and looking for a synonym for "Austerity" I came across a word "Abstemious," which is austere for the very, very (extremely) wealthy, apparently, because looking for abstemious watches comes across $185,000 watches on eBay, and a few on Google you wouldn't recognize (they are too rare.)

I'll try to post a picture of one of the abstemious watches.
(The pics change and I haven't found the exact one
(no wait, I finally FOUND it, what to give your girl on (uh) her promotion,
 to global manager of the world. )
"Abstemious" is snarky for Caligulas being extra-Caligula.

eight-hundred-Thousand 

I'm not really sure this item on eBay ($185,000) is actually a wristwatch, it looks like an attachment for a car.

But this more expensive model looks more like a watch. It also has a nicer name ("Space pirate") 
So if you were wondering what to give Elon Musk for Christmas...
The rich don't worry about time

Arty whirlpools (tourbillons)





This last entry is the single most expensive watch I've seen so far. It falls under the googled-heading of "Abstemious wristwatch" and costs more than a house in a middle-class neighborhood.
It embodies abstemiousness.
Piaget Polo Emperador Tourbillon?
The price is not listed anywhere.

1030000.00*1.24$


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(Link)

I said it before but All Links on this page are transitory.


A website wonders what a really high-up general is wearing as a watch.




This general (any general) probably wears different watches in the field.
This watch he's wearing, whatever it is, might be a commemorative watch given to him at some dinner.
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Damn near impossible to find someone not selling something (eg, apple) 


https://www.europastar.com/time-business/1004089808-don-t-forget-the-middle-class.html

And parenthetically, people keep mentioning "Tissot" which I have not researched yet.
https://www.ariawearable.com/tissot-review/

The most boring video in the freaking *world* lists Tissot as their #1 choice in watches "under $500" but I seriously need a better representative video.

I played it at 2x, skipped over parts, so I don't really know what he said...Once I heard "Tissot" I stopped.
Yeah, OK.
Bottom line, (so far,) swiss watches to look at would be from the Swatch group, and Tissot.

A site selling discounted watches (overstock, I think)
wrote the below.
I guess it's time I stopped being snarky and realized that automatic watches help keep a watch going, but in the end it's you winding it periodically that does the most good.
The more automatic, the less the winding (I guess)




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