Confessions of an internet watch troll: Is it better to p*ss off one person A LOT, or lots of people just a little?

This post is entirely hypothetical… because obviously we are all lovely watch enthusiasts and not in the business of p*ssing people off…

But presume you have a choice between buying two watches, and presume… completely hypothetically…. that there is a dark part of your soul that just enjoys annoying people for laughs (only people who deserve it of course… pretend we are the Robin Hoods of watch trolls).

Watch 1:

A very lovely and well made microbrand compressor style watch.

This Nodus is known to be absolutely awesome quality for the price and a real credit to the world of microbrands. Now, I’m a pretty superficial individual. A watch has gotta look nice, and this one delivers ‘nice’ by the bucket load.

It’s the tiny little details about a watch that can light up the ‘Buy Me!’ sign inside my brain, and with the Nodus that sign is like a bat signal burning into the backs of my eyeballs.

Those gorgeous recessed indices, the lume on those crown’s, the angles on that date window…

But just forget all that… the real reason I’d be buying this is to inflict a friend (because don’t we tease those we care about the most?*) with an horrific online name for the next 12 months. (I still have my fingers crossed for @Dildo_Swaggins).

Watch 2:

This super patined (actual word?) Doxa.

Now, I know you’re all like….

“Grl… Ain’t nobody gonna give a flying tourbillion about that watch.”

Oh, but you are wrong.

This is like the inception of watches.

It provides a big FU to all the quartz haters out there who are like… “I just don’t like a ticking second hand.” (I have been this person btw)

Many quartz watches work real hard to not look quartz. The simplest solution is to just not have a second hand, a la Cartier… another is to go with a meca quartz movement like the Dan Henry’s, to give more of a sweeping motion.

But the wonderful irony of this Doxa is that it does the exact opposite… by being an automatic with a ticking second hand.

Before discovering this watch I thought the Dead Beat seconds complication was the play thing of the elite watch makers such as JLC, Lange & Sohne and Rolex.

It has to be one of the most pointless watch movements out there, which is why it’s only generally the super lux brands who can be like “F*** it. Why not.”

I could go into how ridiculously clever and complicated this type of movement is, but you’re not here for a lesson in watch making, you’re here to help me choose the best watch to troll with.

So now I have to decide if I go with the Nodus, and ruin someone’s online credibility for a year with a name like @Philma_Krakin, or do buy I watch to troll the quartz haters for years to come?

#trollin_aint_easy

*Yes, I am a great mum.