I guess people are going crazy and shopping post lock downs. I am the opposite, I have setup new saving goals to increase my savings since corona made me nervous about the future... so no luxury shopping for me for a while.
In a jewellers yesterday and noticed many empty slots in the TH display, I enquired if they were dropping the brand but was told demand was greater than the supply, they had a sale on but nothing looked super cheap! Post lockdown been good for some.
I'll probably get flamed for suggesting this ("watches aren't investments"), but... if you buy wisely on the pre-owned market, then you can think of your watches as a sort of "savings account" you can enjoy. Of course there are no guarantees and the money is not very liquid. But you don't get much interest from the bank at the moment. Think my savings account is now 0.1%. You can invest in funds but there are no guarantees there either. Obviously don't put it all into watches, though - it's good to spread it about!
As far as watches go, for me its pure unneccesary luxury and I would not want to tie up my family's money in watches. The money I spend on watches should be the money that might as well go to restaurant evenings, club nights, nice clothes etc.
Of course everyone thinks about it differently, and I would never advocate going all out on watches, but I don't quite follow your logic. Once you spend money in a restaurant, it's gone (literally down the toilet!). Once you spend money on clothes, you're not going to get back that initial outlay. If you buy, sensibly, a pre-owned watch, then you should be able to "withdraw" that money again later. It may even go up in value, as some of my watches have done. I'm not saying it's a serious way to make money, but it is a way to enjoy your savings without losing much, if anything.
No no I completely understand your point. To make things clear maybe: how I consider watches is that I will never sell them and the money is gone. I invest too much emotions in my watches so I want to make sure never ever having to sell them for financial reasons. Therefore my brain has to think of it as "money burnt" when buying a watch.
Maybe not logical but thats how I work in me strange brain
I've looked a few various watch models but can't pull the trigger, thought about upgrading the telly now the current one is out of warranty, 65" 8k seems interesting.
I would not be jumping in and buying an 8K television right now.
Unless every device and cable in your HDMI chain is certified to the right level, and this is just the start of HDMI woes, it won't work properly.
Aside from the fact that there are hardly any AV amps/receivers/processors that can handle 8K let alone sound bars and no 8K software ( a couple of videos on YouTube don't count), you will find that 2nd and 3rd gen products will be much better and then you will be able to see if there is any content. Tip: there won't be!
I wonder if it's demand going up, or supply going down? The manufacture was closed for a couple of months, so that must have impacted production?
Good that they are making all this necessary progress with higher and higher and higher resolution on TV's because I cant see enough details in my old crappy "full hd" 60" screen 🙄
