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I completely agree...and I am a former Rolex owner....fully recovered...thanks.

Here is a real good one for ya...

At my previous office in Orlando there was a guy (an engineering department manager) who had the typical blue face, steel and gold Rolex Sub. He must have obtained it recently, because I knew him well enough to notice that he had not been wearing this watch previously.

Well, I had to attend regular meetings with this person and one day I had noticed that his Sub had stopped running, but I said nothing.
He eventually noticed that it had stopped too, and he started figiting with the watch during this meeting...taking it off, winding it, shaking it etc...not making a scene, but being a WIS I noticed all this, but said nothing (obviously). The watch never started during the meeting. He stopped fooling around with it and put it back on like nothing happened. Here is where it gets neurotic...

At the same weekly meeting, a week later and even a few weeks after that, the guy shows up at the meeting wearing the Sub...and it is still not working. IMO, he was so insistant that he wear his Rolex, he did not even care if it worked. He eventually must have brought it in for service, because after those meetings he was not wearing it for several weeks.

"Steel and Gold Rolex Sub - $6,000"
"Overhaul on Rolex Sub - $1000"
"All the neurosis that goes with owning a Rolex...PRICELESS!"