Negative comments about your watch?

[Bunny4jeff]

Originally Posted by nowzen

I see you are from UK - as far as I know in the UK this is an accepted comment.
Your watch is not 'my cup of tea' either. but all that means in UK and Canada is:
Good for you, but not to my taste".

If we all had the same taste, i'd be a boring planet.
Sounds like an honest, up front bloke.
Move on.

I beg to differ... it was a tactless and unnecessary remark, quite likely stemming from jealousy If anyone cannot make a constructive comment, then better to not comment at all.

[Bunny4jeff]

Originally Posted by wishywatchy

I had a meeting last night with a new client, we were talking for a while when he leant over to pull something from his bag, I looked at his wrist and noticed a 42mm Planet Ocean. We finished our meeting and went for a drink, I enquired about the PO and we got talking watches, he asked what I was wearing so I took off my 16713 and handed it him. He looked it up and down and flippantly said 'that's not my cup of tea' then handed it me back .

Has anyone else recieved negative comments about their watch? If so do they bother you?

I think your watch is very smart and with useful functionality as well as Rolex good looks! If I could not say anything nice and/or constructive I would keep my mouth shut

[superdog]

Originally Posted by Bunny4jeff

I was on the receiving end of a negative, no, ignorant as well, comment, today in fact, from a Forum member who no doubt thought he was being funny. I have a (good) sense of humour, but as a "newbie" to the Forum, I was asking advice. It's people like him who put newcomers off, from the beginning, of ever making use of and hopefully one day contributing to a Forum like this. He hasn't managed to put me off, because people like that are water off a duck's back to me. He will only have made himself look the idiot he seems to be.

lighten up dude. this is only a watch forum.

and while you did not specifically call anyone out, name calling of any kind "idiot" is frowned up. this is only friendly advice......because if a mod catches it, they typically don't appreciate things like that.

[dajark]

My boss drives a Bugatti Veyron.

Not my cup of tea.

[Bunny4jeff]

Originally Posted by superdog

lighten up dude. this is only a watch forum.

and while you did not specifically call anyone out, name calling of any kind "idiot" is frowned up. this is only friendly advice......because if a mod catches it, they typically don't appreciate things like that.

Yeah ok, it was a bit strong...but if someone had broadly insinuated that your watch was a fake when you know it isn't, and he doesn't, that makes him appear a silly person to me, to put it more mildly. Its ok, put it behind me now

[superdog]

Originally Posted by Bunny4jeff

Yeah ok, it was a bit strong...but if someone had broadly insinuated that your watch was a fake when you know it isn't, and he doesn't, that makes him appear a silly person to me, to put it more mildly. Its ok, put it behind me now

that's the spirit .

like you said, don't worry so much about what other people might think. enjoy the forum and your watch(es).

[Hkspwrsche]

Originally Posted by JP Chestnut

Maybe he didn't like two tone watches. Many people don't.

That was my first thought since I'm not a two tone guy and I have a pepsi gmt I may have even said something like that not thinking.

[HunterST]

I heard something similar from someone with an Omega. Went on and on about how he liked "real" watches and didn't "go with the pack" and get a Rolex. A couple years later he asked me to help him find a vintage GMT and a Sub!

[padi56]

This thread has run its coarse so now it will close, so I will go and have my cup of tea with a soft boiled egg to follow.