Cousin "real name is Wang Ning, he runs a watch public name, the style is slightly literary tone, in the bezel for many years, bought a lot of watches, but also stepped on a lot of thunder, usually look dragging but slightly shy cousin on the eve of basel watch show, to the audience of Cool Lezhi to talk about the experience of buying watches.
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▼ "Quality Kuroshi" video series No. 39: The watch is a toy, listen to the cousin Wang Ning's experience of playing with the watch
The origin of "cousin" and watch originated from the young school in Japan, living in Osaka, when the Osaka library books can be read and understood all read, and then bored began to read magazines, even AV magazines are not interested, suddenly found a watch magazine, which will talk about a lot of technical problems, which caused the cousin's initial interest in watches. Later, my cousin, who had nothing to do for a long time in Beijing, was introduced by a friend to the job of watch editor by chance.
But when the hobby becomes a profession, the cousin does not like it so much, "the combination of career and hobby is a silly theory, after becoming a profession you will need to compromise a lot of things, you will see a lot of unpleasant, dirty side." 」 I used to have a lot of autism and didn't like to communicate with people a lot of times, so you rarely see me at many watch events. ”
Q: What was your first good watch?
Cousin: 20 years ago I was in Japan, when I was a little younger than now, but disguised as a particularly mature old man, writing for a newspaper Chinese, very popular, accumulated some writing fees, bought a new pen, and then I told my family, a little more money to buy a watch, so I bought the first good watch in my life - Omega Supermaster. But I developed the habit of driving a flying car in Japan, after returning to China, riding a motorcycle on the outskirts of Beijing, a very strange path suddenly appeared a big sister, although I felt that I did everything I could, or a little scratch, this can not be said to the family, hit the injured to go to the hospital, I myself fell very badly, so I sold the watch. I went from being an old man to a watch editor, and from that time on I had to make my own money.
Q: Did you do anything crazy because you bought a watch?
Cousin: I have told many people that I am the person who wanders to the bottom of this era, poor! Let's say I paid my watch today, and I have a few hundred dollars left in my account. Another time, even more fiercely, there was a watch that I did not expect to arrive so quickly, somewhere in Hong Kong I ordered a Lange, I did not even have the money for that watch. I said to a friend, or you will help me hold it first, and in two months I will give you the money. Because we are a very small company, once I hollowed out all the company's accounts. Because there are seasons for flowers to blossom and fall, but when the table will really not know, said a good year to, the result is less than half a year, it will be sent to you, can not not pay money.
Q: Is the watch a status symbol?
Cousin: Let me give you a simple example, there is a friend who wants to spend more than 5 million to buy a particularly top Richard. Miller. I think this is a crazy thing. Although I myself like Richard. Miller, but I think it's crazy to spend $5 million on it, and his reasons are particularly simple, because he's an investor, he's invested in a lot of game companies and the owners of the games are 80 or 90 very young people, and they all like Richard. Miller, almost all wear. So I suddenly felt that if I didn't wear one, and it must be very expensive, otherwise I wouldn't be able to chat with them. This is a particularly stark example, which is actually a question of a circle, and what the circle is wearing, he must wear. Although many people say that watches represent identity, for me it is not because I am a person who has no identity.
Cousin's recent favorite "Richard. Miller"
Q: Can I find the right brand for me?
Cousin: Let's say I know a rich second generation who is quite famous in the restaurant industry, and their family has opened a chain of restaurants, probably around 30 years old, he will not buy Patek Philippe, saying that he is too young to fit this brand. Another friend, who is not yet 30 years old, may have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Patek Philippe. So what kind of people do you say this brand is suitable for? It's hard to tell. It's hard to put a brand and a watch and characterize it as this one worn by old men and worn by young people. Essentially, what is the brand doing watches for? There are no ideals, no values. It's very simple to do business that requires profitability, and for everything they do, an ultimate principle is to maximize profits.
Patek Philippe 175 years of age 4675G, who said men can not wear women's watches?
Q: How to recommend friends or netizens to choose the table in general?
Cousin: How to recommend a watch, it is really difficult to answer, although this is a very multimedia platform, want to do one thing. Many friends also asked me to recommend watches, but I think that what I want to say to others is actually like writing, only talking about myself and others, it is difficult for me to recommend it to someone who has not even met, and then tell him that this watch is particularly good, which is particularly irresponsible.
Q: How do I buy a watch that suits me?
Cousin: These kinds of questions are like finding a girlfriend, why doesn't anyone ask me how to find a girlfriend? Because of this matter, everyone is particularly direct and special instinct, I like beautiful, which guy likes ugly, right? In fact, it is the same when buying a watch. How to play the table is actually very simple in my concept. You look good on the line, this is extremely important, the most asked question is A is good or B good, for example, it is 50,000 yuan, they are priced the same, there is no reason A is much better than B, this is not in line with the laws of business, how is this possible. And "good" is a particularly simple word, a criterion that is difficult to quantify. So my answer is that you put the watch on your hand, and you like which one you like. If you have to recommend me, you just have to buy a brand. Because there is a reason why brand names can live to this day, even LV, in addition to zippers, their quality is good to die. It must make sense that it can live so long, and its product must be OK. When you don't know how to choose, you buy a famous brand, but don't do another thing, that is, there are often some people who buy some, don't know where the brand comes from, why would he buy it? Because he was fooled by the store this watch is particularly low-key, few people know. I don't think this is low-key, it's low-minded. The watch is still the most reliable to buy the big name of the Eight Classics.
Cartier's early special limited edition platinum tank skip timetable
Jaquet-Dro's specially tailored dial
Q: How to understand watch investment?
Cousin: Buy a watch don't think about how much money you can make to preserve the value, just like the old lady who sets up a stall on the side of the road wants to make money from stocks, it is really silly and naïve. If I had used the money from my watch purchase to buy a house, it would obviously not have been as poor as I am today! Investing in watches, how can it be, buying a house is an investment! Collecting and appreciating are two completely different things.
Q: Many brands will have some additional features? Will you pay for it?
Cousin: There is a function in the watch called "three questions". This feature is undoubtedly designed for the wealthy, as it starts at a high price. Another kind of timetable, such as the chronograph, the chronograph has a very expensive and expensive one, it may be prepared for the top collectors, and some very cheap chronographs may be fooling the general public, because this function is very fun, but in fact, I don't know where the fun goes. And I found that often people swim and wear watches, play tennis and wear watches, do you have problems with your brain, people athletes wear watches to exercise for advertising, and no sports watch is appropriate. Especially diving, how can diving carry a mechanical watch, are you an idiot? A lot of mechanical watches go to play diving with this feature. Don't people die when you go diving with a mechanical watch? Before the technology was not developed, there was no doubt that it was very needed at that time, how can you wear a mechanical watch to dive now? So now these features are playing the retro card.
Q: Have you ever been questioned?
Cousin: There is a Mr. Zhang who is very good at planning in China's real estate industry, once was the best quality customer of major auction houses, basically he has a lot of watches, one day he sent me a text message, he said: "I bought your magazine at the door of Hang Lung, 70% of the side here is water!" I was also stupid and said, "Rain, I'll give you a courier book new." "I got to this level, and then I quickly understood, he told me that if the content is not good, don't come out, just like we draw a picture, if we think it's not good, throw it away, and then draw it again!" If you can't do it, you have to do it again, and you have to do it to the extreme. He always urged me in this way, even in a tone of extreme sarcasm and ridicule, but I remember him very clearly because he was kind to me personally.
Q: Do I need a threshold for watch rings?
Cousin: Watch editing does not need a threshold, this is a job that pigs can do, so we see a bunch of pigs running in the industry, and sometimes I feel that I have no value. For example, if you write a watch review and get a press release, as long as he knows the words slightly changed, maybe the manuscript can be sent out. But let's change our minds, the media of medical journals, you come to try, you know the word is not good to make ah, you don't know how to change, completely black eyes, look at the picture to speak, you can't say it. Or write an economic review, you have no way to start, take myself as an example, I think I have written an unknown number of words, and dare not say that I can write an economic review, I don't know how to write the first word. That's called the threshold, which requires real knowledge accumulation. I've always wanted to switch to products, training or space decoration or whatever, or write novels.
Q: Can I shop my watch online?
Cousin: Once I bought an antique Patek Philippe 570 watch online at a Watch Shop in Tokyo, but it was actually a Japanese watch house that I trusted very much at that time. Just put out a watch, I like it very much, I bought more than a dozen or twenty watches in his, I discussed with him, they also go to Basel every year, let them bring the watch to the watch exhibition, I saw the performance field to give cash (more than 100,000 yuan), he did not agree to say that he had to send money, as before to express the watch to Hong Kong. Antique watches have a lot of pits, this time I fell into the pit, the dial is undoubtedly The original Patek Philippe, but not the dial of the year, this dial was later replaced. His online photos were hazy, and I trusted him, so I bought them. After receiving it, I found out that it was pitted. The big pits encountered were all purchased online, and they were all deceived by Japanese devils. Before also bought a piece of Patek Philippe antique watch is also online shopping, sent to Hong Kong, at that time the young ignorant fearless will send money over, and then express to the Hong Kong friend's office, I asked the friend how? He's saying that if you don't care about the potholes, it's okay. Except for the potholes, the most bizarre thing is that when I first got the watch, there was nothing, those small scales were still clean, and as the wear time increased, each scale oozed a strange liquid, like a urine kang. I don't know what the reason is, and there is no water in, but the traces are getting worse and worse. So especially antique watches, if you don't see the real thing really don't buy blindly, it's all pits. Put aside the seller to review themselves, really don't try to be cheap, if the quality is very good, sell people are not stupid, how can it be so cheap.
Patek Philippe 570 antique watch
Patek Philippe 3448 Antique Perpetual Calendar
Q: What is your purpose in buying watches?
Cousin: I have an idea to buy the simplest things on a limited budget. For example, 1 million to buy a stainless steel simplest two-needle watch, must be the top. You must not think about 50,000 yuan to buy a three-question table, that is very garbage. Don't think about being great value, because I think it's silly. In other words, the value is for people who only buy one watch, anyway, you will buy a watch in your life, according to all your ideas of value to buy no problem. But if you want to buy a lot of watches, I want to collect, and the logic of collecting is that in a limited budget, it must be the easiest to buy.
Q: What is your favorite watch?
Cousin: The favorite watch is definitely the next one, because what you can't get is the best. Recently I have been listening to Wang Yangming's mind, many watches are not from the heart, not their own heart like, I now feel particularly deeply, I have a lot of watches, never worn, not once, they are not unsealed. Take it back and throw it there, it is not something you particularly like in your heart, so I think what I recommend to the people is only that they like to look good and buy it, I am not lazy to say, I feel beautiful, wear comfortable, nothing is more important than this.