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So I go to an authorized dealer in NJ to buy an SMP today. I was pumped. I ask to see the full size Seamaster, and the sales lady has no clue what I want until I point it out in the case. She hands me the quartz model and I notice the second hand advances 5 seconds every second. It goes from the 5-10-15 marks in 3 seconds flat. I asked her why it did that and she replied, "Oh, that's because it's a quartz."
Really? So the quartz model throws off some sort of Einstein time dialation effect? Time slows down for everyone else except the wearer of the watch? "This is ludicrous," I told her. She stood by her explanation,
I asked the price and she said the watch was $1,750. I told her that that must be a mistake, it should be $1,350. She replied that $1,750 was the "required price" set by the manufacturer. So I asked to see the automatic and she told me that this watch was also $1,750. "The quartz and the auto are the same price, are you sure about that?" I asked her. " Absolutely," she told me.
I asked for a manager but he was "on break." Needless to say I walked out, and I'm still wearing my $40 Timex.
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