So because I don't waste my money on vain status symbols, I can't tell time? lol What a pitiful mindset.
No one EVER waits on me. Ever. So you're dead wrong. I have a phone... it tells me the time. My kestrel tells me the time. My computer tells me the time. My truck tells me the time. There are dozens of devices around me all day long that can tell me the time. I can even set reminders in many of them, that further help me with the time. Some even have calendars in them, further helping me. All else fails, I can look in the sky and tell time well enough to be where I need to be, before I'm needed to be there.
You don't get to tell me that your watch is a status symbol, and then tell me it's the "time" that's important. Whenever I see an expensive watch, I see man jewelry and someone trying to posture and telegraph their wealth. Not to mention making themselves a target. If your customers' time was the thing that is important, you'd just show up early enough for ultra-precise time to not matter to them or you.
If I hire someone, and they demonstrate they like to waste money on vain things... it just shows me they could offer the same services for a lower price if they weren't busy trying to keep up with the Jones'. When I was 22 years old, I had a $12,000 breitling for a while. Oh, yeah... I really thought I was something. Then by the time I was 24, I grew up and understood that my deeds are my status symbols. That whole jewelry as a "status symbol" thing is a form of mental illness, and the pursuit of that greed is at the heart of many very dark things. If a guy wants to diversify his investments and protect his wealth, and uses jewelry as a part of that strategy... fine.
However, I feel a great sense of pity for a man that judges the worth of another man or that of himself by the price of the watch he has on his wrist.
