bmb wrote:In answer to the original question, the best $5000 watch is 250 Timexs: A new one very few months for the rest of your life.
Mr. Literal-minded here. Timexes last a
lot longer than a few months. This one is out of the "spare watch" drawer on my small parts cabinet. I believe it did cost about $20, including the watchband, and in my humble opinion it's actually a darn handsome watch. Even if it looks more like anodized aluminum than gold, and even if it's almost as thick as a White Castle hamburger patty.
It is
at least five years old. At the time the picture was taken, the actual time according to my radio-synchronized "atomic clock" was 12:26:40.
There's just no way a Timex is going to last less than a year.
So, just as people buy Rolexes as heirlooms, anyone who buys 250 Timexes can expect to leave
at least 127 of them to their estate--enough for four children, sixteen grandchildren, and sixty-four great-grandchildren to inherit a timelessly elegant, precise, Indiglo-dial water-resistant Acqua Timex of their very own.
Unless the batteries poop out, of course.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness; Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.