Yesterday I was traveling to Bangalore from Chennai in Vande Bharat executive class. I was sitting in an aisle seat. almost all the passengers passing through my seat bruises my right shoulder. It’s common for aisle seating passengers. One of the passengers was walking with his trolley bag and hit my shoulder, and the wristwatch of him stuck with my sleeve of the polo. He got angry and scolded me on the spot, tagging that costly wristwatch is messed up. though it was not my mistake, and I asked sorry. That moment he got more anger because I used the word “sorry” on the spot. He assumed I did. My fellow passengers advising him and asking him to take an extra care of costly things while traveling. From there, I was thinking something and started to notice people’s wrist and the types of watches they were wearing. It was quite interesting.
WATCH – “single utility device.” It shows the same time regardless of cost, status of people, or where they were born (whether from a legendary manufacturer or a roadside manufacturer). Someone says, Hey, mine is a gold watch; my watch has a gem inside; look at my watch style; don’t be surprised, it shows the same time as what watch you are wearing right now and the same mechanism inside your watch as well. Milliners are wearing costly wrist watches but nothing special in that, just “tik”,”tik”… same functions of your Rs 500-cost watch. If your watch accidentally fell down, a normal watch can fix it quickly with any shop, and you can get the spare easily. If it’s a costly watch, first they need to make a call to the respective showroom and book an appointment. It hardly takes one week to find the issue. if its spare parts changing, they need to wait another one week to get the spare changed. The only difference is that every visit you can get free coffee or tea in this costly watch showroom, and you will be called “SIR” always until that issue fixed.
The theory behind costly banner items is nothing, those got rejected by normal people and are not eligible to use them in a normal life.
Apple phones are now wildly used by all kinds of people. When Apple released their first phone in 2007, it was $499. People were not showing interest in buying that because of the cost. Even they have a 1-year replacement warranty (if it gets damaged within one year, you get a new phone). So the company got panicked, and marketing came into the picture. They started visiting all kinds of celebrity people and gave their phones (free or gift) to use. Eventually it gets popularized when it reaches celebrity hands.
Linen fabric failed initially. Normal people are looking for hard and thick fabric that should last long under any conditions, but linen is thin and lightweight. Now it’s widely used by politicians.
costly cars, costly cars are parked next to private jet at sale action, when milliners or billionaires buy a private jet, costly cars are gifted to them at a discounted sale price. when it comes on the road, attracted by people’s eyes.
The same way, a costly watch is gifted to a celebrity at an event, functions, or as a brand ambassador.
None of the watches is offering the special things for you.It’s doing only one job. surprised to see the people spend more and more money on watch collections. It’s their own interest, but never expect any kind of respect or honor from other people because you are wearing or having costly utility devices.
Later, I googled to get some info on that watch he was wearing with the help of the words I remember—that’s “Tissot Seastar.” The price is 50K+; it’s not that much costly.
-illayaal karthikeyan
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illayaal karthikeyan 