"Engagement watch" Am I expecting too much?
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BeerMonster1 said:
HereBeMonsters said:
Why spend that much on the ring, then?
isn't this the assured amount to spend?? haha 
I shouldn't have let her go.
BeerMonster1 said:
HereBeMonsters said:
Why spend that much on the ring, then?
isn't this the assured amount to spend?? haha It started off at 1 month, and it became perhaps the most successful PR campaign of all time.
It was never a tradition, it was never 'the done thing'. It was just marketing, plucked out of thin air. And it still is.
You've been mugged, and you feel good about it.
Strange this topic has come up, the first time i heard about the concept of "wedding/engagement" watches was on Sunday when we stopped off at the jewelers to order a JLC strap, and congratulate one of the staff on getting engaged recently.
Is this the done thing nowadays?
I got a dirty look for suggesting my potential wish list of grand complications lol :P (its got to be more special that what i already own right?)
Is this the done thing nowadays?
I got a dirty look for suggesting my potential wish list of grand complications lol :P (its got to be more special that what i already own right?)
SpeckledJim said:
No, that is the current figure quietly and insidiously suggested by De Beers.
It started off at 1 month, and it became perhaps the most successful PR campaign of all time.
It was never a tradition, it was never 'the done thing'. It was just marketing, plucked out of thin air. And it still is.
You've been mugged, and you feel good about it.
ThisIt started off at 1 month, and it became perhaps the most successful PR campaign of all time.
It was never a tradition, it was never 'the done thing'. It was just marketing, plucked out of thin air. And it still is.
You've been mugged, and you feel good about it.
And this
GCH said:
Engagement watch? no
Watch as a wedding gift
Watch as a wedding gift
endo said:
Strange this topic has come up, the first time i heard about the concept of "wedding/engagement" watches was on Sunday when we stopped off at the jewelers to order a JLC strap, and congratulate one of the staff on getting engaged recently. Is this the done thing nowadays?
Perhaps it's indicative of a more materialistic society? When I bought my then girlfriend an engagement ring it was a complete surprise. I had smuggled another correctly fitting ring of hers to be sized at the jewellers and chose the engagement ring myself. I think it meant more for that reason and because it was a surprise there was no question of a reciprocal gift, not that I'd have wanted or expected one. I know a few blokes who've been given a watch by their wife as a wedding present. I think think it's a nice idea, what with this being the age of equality and so forth, but shouldn't be expected.
However if you don't get a new watch, after you're married don't wear a watch at all and mope around the house saying you don't know what the time is. That's the manly thing to do
However if you don't get a new watch, after you're married don't wear a watch at all and mope around the house saying you don't know what the time is. That's the manly thing to do
SpeckledJim said:
BeerMonster1 said:
HereBeMonsters said:
Why spend that much on the ring, then?
isn't this the assured amount to spend?? haha It started off at 1 month, and it became perhaps the most successful PR campaign of all time.
It was never a tradition, it was never 'the done thing'. It was just marketing, plucked out of thin air. And it still is.
You've been mugged, and you feel good about it.
I spent £180 on the engagement ring for my wife. It was just so her, and enabled us to spend more money on actually fun things, like the honeymoon.
To be fair, I would have bought the same ring even if it was ten times as much, but not because it fit with some "x times your monthly salary" amount, but because it was the right one.
HereBeMonsters said:
Yep, wife did that for me. Handmade English automatic, with the Wedding date on the rotor, visible through the display back. No excuse for forgetting the anniversary now!
Try: "I'm sorry, darling, but I just love the watch you bought me so much that I never take it off to see the display back! Every second it ticks on my wrist is another second we're together and I couldn't take it off for fear of missig even one"
Now try it again and do try to sound sincere this time!
Got a blinder of a deal on an auto Longines Hydroconquest from a jewellers in Coventry back in Feb the day after I proposed. I think I was still drunk! Girl in shop was b
hing how guys these days expect something in the deal too though...
Then the next weekend we went to Brighton to go ring shopping.
hing how guys these days expect something in the deal too though...Then the next weekend we went to Brighton to go ring shopping.
You should expect NOTHING. Marriage is like that. If you EXPECT anything, think it's a right, think it should be fair, you are deluded. Marriage is about giving. NOT receiving. Think "what you can do for your country not what your country can do for you".
Put the word wife in place of country, and that's 25 years of happy marriage.
As for the amount. My tax rebate was £307, so that's what I spent, as a penniless student. As I was living on £212 a month, and my rent was £100 a month plus bills, it was about a years worth of food for me.
Put the word wife in place of country, and that's 25 years of happy marriage.
As for the amount. My tax rebate was £307, so that's what I spent, as a penniless student. As I was living on £212 a month, and my rent was £100 a month plus bills, it was about a years worth of food for me.
The day before we bought my wife's engagement ring, we were browsing the windows in San Francisco and stumbled across an 18k breguet super marine for similar money than the engagement ring, it was a steal (the watch 
) and my wife offered to get this instead of the ring. Glad we didn't. (But I've never found one as cheap)
I didn't expect anything when we got engaged, the only thing I asked my wife to do was show up on the day!
Chris
) and my wife offered to get this instead of the ring. Glad we didn't. (But I've never found one as cheap)I didn't expect anything when we got engaged, the only thing I asked my wife to do was show up on the day!
Chris
BeerMonster1 said:
As above really, will be getting engaged to the other half at some point very soon and I mentioned that if i was spending 3 months wages on a ring. The least she could do is buy a watch of my choice? (albeit much less than the ring).
Some people agree and some people think im well, i kNoB!!
Whats your views guys, should this be made rule for blokes or just fobbed off as a joke??
When my wife and I got engaged in 1969 I didn't tell her how much the ring cost. It was a gift, I don't normally tell people how much their gifts cost.Some people agree and some people think im well, i kNoB!!
Whats your views guys, should this be made rule for blokes or just fobbed off as a joke??
If you can not give freely a symbol of your future with one another,
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