the luxury of not caring what time it is
Someone once said that the ultimate luxury in a Manhattan apartment is simply empty space. It's not the objets d'art or the furniture; it's the clean, empty surfaces and elegant expanses in between the furniture.
Someone has now (rather cheekily, I think) invented a $300,000 watch that doesn't tell the time. Because, as Romain Jerome says, " An avant-garde approach, that is different and even disturbing. Surely the ultimate luxury would be to take one’s time?"
Next: a trash can that won't hold trash -- because everything you touch is fucking gold.
Someone has now (rather cheekily, I think) invented a $300,000 watch that doesn't tell the time. Because, as Romain Jerome says, " An avant-garde approach, that is different and even disturbing. Surely the ultimate luxury would be to take one’s time?"
Next: a trash can that won't hold trash -- because everything you touch is fucking gold.
posted by JenIsFamous at 4/28/2008 09:38:00 PM
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I think I read once that one of the original reasons pocket watches hung on as long as they did was because needing to know what time it was was considered a sign of belonging to one of the working classes. It was in the book "Dressing The Man" by Alan Flusser.
"A trash can that won't hold trash..." A brilliant invention and a good fucking joke.
When I was little my Dad used to crawl up my ass about always wearing my watch and knowing what time it was. If I forgot to wear it, there would generally be a little bit of hell to pay. As I got older and started going to punk shows, I reveled in the fact that during said shows my watch would often get broken or ripped off of my wrist. In the following weeks I found the truest freedom, wandering around aimlessly with no clue what fucking time it was! At some point I just stopped wearing watches altogether, and began secretly courting the idea that I am happiest when my mobile phone has been turned off or broken. I think it's the best thing that can go wrong in modern culture.
When I wear a watch it stops working within a few days. Not because I forget to wind it up before you ask. As super powers go I'm not impressed but this watch would be ideal for me. For 300K I assume it comes with some sort of money back guarantee
New Law: People that wear watches that are deliberately broken for the sheer ostentation of it shall have the offending wrist lopped off. Said wrist and watch will be sold to pay for a public health care system.
The "Night Tourbillon" is "dedicated to man’s own private sphere." I like the men I get private with at night to have two spheres, if you know what I'm sayin'. Sorry, Lance Armstrong.
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