How Logan Paul taught me to be a better member of the watch community.

It can sometimes be difficult to show off your luxury time pieces in the watch community without being deemed a ‘flexer’.

Truthfully, I have been one of those judgy people in the past. Post a pic of your Daytona more than twice and I’m there thinking “Jeez… We get it! You’ve got a nice watch…” *Eye roll*

And yet I never have the same thoughts about people proudly posting their affordable watch pickups, (or those who I’ve actually taken the time to get to know before getting all ‘toxic judgment’. Some of my favourite watch people wear Daytona’s).

I’ve spoken before about reverse watch snobbery (looking down on those who choose to buy luxury watches), but what I think I’m feeling is different to this… I think it’s more routed in a very deep and powerful dislike of flexing.

These thoughts undoubtedly say more about me than the poor guy just trying to share his lovely Daytona with the world.

Having absolutely nothing growing up and being subjected to all the other kids with their brand labelled shoes and clothes at school has obviously left me with a few scars and a deep loathing of those who feel they are better than others because of the money in their account (or on their wrist).

This attitude unfortunately has resulted in me being quick to judge others… and ironically no better a person than those I detest.

But Logan Paul has helped me.

Who?

Logan Paul is MASSIVE in YouTube and social media, but if that isn’t your thing then you may never have heard of him.

He is the reason why my kids think ‘YouTuber’ is a legitimate career path, due to him making multiple millions through his social media presence and the deals he has cut as part of this.

And he has what to do with watches?

Nothing (that I know of. I’ve not been bothered enough to Google his collection as I very much doubt he’s into the 70′ Seikos’ and mostly broken vintage chronographs that float my boat), but he has EVERYTHING to do with flexing.

He is a master.

It’s pretty much become part of his brand and he has become very good at it.

This really hit me recently when I was watching a program about collecting and auctions and he was there talking about Pokémon cards. It’s his ‘thing’. The guy loves ’em like we love curved lugs and on-the-fly micro-adjust bracelets.

His favourite and most expensive is a rare one-of-a-kind Pikachu card worth £3.8M. But it’s not enough for him to meanly own this card. No. What’s the point if you can’t constantly remind people how rich you are? So he chooses to wear this card in a custom gold and diamond encrusted necklace around his neck whenever he’s in front of a camera.

So I saw this, and I thought… “Wow… Is what we see on watch forums even flexing AT ALL compared to that???”

It just really put it into perspective that if the most someone is doing is wearing a watch on their wrist… which, let’s face it, is pretty conventional… then I think I just need to chill out about it.

From now on I’m only classing it as watch flexing if they are wearing their entire collection of Daytona’s on a chain around their neck. (Though weirdly…. part of me wants to see that happen…)

Anyway, thank you for reading. I am on a journey of self-improvement in watch collecting, so subscribe to keep up-to-date with future insightful posts like this one!

Kaysia