Ferrari watches (brand)
Ferrari watches (brand)
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PAULJ5555

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3,554 posts

205 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Title should read "Cheap Ferrari Watch"

Whats people views on these?

I think they look nice but would feel a bit of a k*ob having one, I dont own a ferrari but have driven the new 458, even so I still dont think this is a get out of jail card.

If you owned a ferrari would you buy a 75pound watch.

The watches themselves would only sell for about half the price if the ferrari badge was taken away. For 300pound I would buy a proper swiss named watch.


Mods - please dont move to watches forum as this topic is about the brand and its add ons.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watches-Ferrari/s?ie=UTF8&...

Edited by PAULJ5555 on Friday 23 May 13:32


Edited by PAULJ5555 on Friday 23 May 16:59

forzaminardi

2,298 posts

216 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Really, really, really, really naff.

Daniel1

2,931 posts

227 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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I personally think the watches are naff but have no problem with people owning Ferrari merchandise, especially the F1 stuff.

My thinking is that you are supporting the F1 team its ok, same as people support their favourite football teams.

civicduty

1,857 posts

232 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Not necessarily watches but I had a Ferrari branded fleece for quite a while, didn't own a Ferrari obviously but it never really bothered me. It was a nice warm coat and good quality.

I occasionally got asked where's your Ferrari then, but this was normally by one of the tracksuit wearing brigade, to which I normally replied 'guess you are the owner of nike/addidas/rebok etc then' going on which ever brand of clothing they where wearing.

My view anyway.


civicduty

1,857 posts

232 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Are the watches official Ferrari branded items. My fleece was and as mentioned above I just viewed it as supporting the team rather than pretending to own a car I never could.

aspirated

2,540 posts

175 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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The new 458? It's getting on for 5 years old now..

IMO it's just as bad as manufacturer branded clothing

Actus Reus

4,312 posts

184 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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I know a fella that has a Ferrari watch (and a lot of money).

He's a tt.

J4CKO

46,821 posts

229 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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You will stick it in a draw when, after the fourth time of someone asking if you own one you cant stand it any longer.

Sorry, but any clothing displaying the car you own is naff.

I just realised I am wearing a t shirt that says VW MK2 Golf GTI, my wife bought it me and I dont wear it out of the house, it now has Pot Noodle on it from lunch which I am equally as enthusiastic about but dont feel the need to wear a T shirt to show it.

dave_s13

14,026 posts

298 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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forzaminardi said:
Really, really, really, really naff.
This.

Also, the fact you can buy one for 80 means, for me, that the more expensive ones are automatically tarnished as being total sheeite.

ging84

9,548 posts

175 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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i have Ferrari aftershave, it smells much like all the other aftershaves i have, like the bottle of Lamborghini stuff my gf got me on a previous birthday.
I suspect much of the Ferrari branded merchandise is bought as gifts

Chris Stott

19,503 posts

226 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Car branded watches, clothing, perfumes... tacky beyond belief.

balls-out

3,794 posts

260 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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J4CKO said:
.. it now has Pot Noodle on it from lunch which I am equally as enthusiastic about but dont feel the need to wear a T shirt to show it.
I would buy a pot Noodle Tshirt and watch before Ferrari ones.

gleeman

55 posts

152 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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To be honest I think almost all watches are embarrassing and lack style, but that's just me.

I understand that they're jewellry, and so how they look is important, but the idea that a watch has more value because it's got a good mechanism is laughable.

SrMoreno

546 posts

175 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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balls-out said:
I would buy a pot Noodle Tshirt and watch before Ferrari ones.
I wouldn't want to support Pot Noodle. I hear the noodles they give to the reviewers are different from the ones they sell to the public.

Schermerhorn

4,353 posts

218 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Ferrari's own brand watches are quite naff.

Panerai and Girard-Perregaux however do some lovely ones.




austinsmirk

5,597 posts

152 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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branded or not, I don't get expensive watches........ mainly because watches don't seem to last long with me.

and for the last ten years I now have a clock on a phone. job done.


if anyone saw that posh pawn programme a week back......... there was some fat sweaty man pawning his gold "something" watch.

it was vile, yet still got 5500 I think. I can't imagine in a 100 years, who would even wish to adorn themselves with such a thing to the tune of that kind of money.

am I too old ?

is it some sort of metrosexual thing ?


but I do understand having a decent, stylish watch............ not the equivalent of a barry boy custom job on your wrist.

lauda

4,412 posts

236 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Schermerhorn said:
Ferrari's own brand watches are quite naff.

Panerai and Girard-Perregaux however do some lovely ones.



That Girard-Perregaux is a lovely looking watch but not only does the prancing horse add nothing to it, it would put me off even considering buying one. I agree with most of the other posters that sticking a car company logo on a product from a totally unrelated manufacturer is a bit naff and I just don't understand it.

Buy a car from a car manufacturer and a watch from a watch manufacturer, simple as that. Would you want a car that had Omega or Seiko branding plastered all over it (and before someone posts up a racing car with TAG or Longines sponsorship on, that's different).

PAULJ5555

Original Poster:

3,554 posts

205 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Schermerhorn said:
Ferrari's own brand watches are quite naff.

Panerai and Girard-Perregaux however do some lovely ones.



How much is this worth?

J4CKO

46,821 posts

229 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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balls-out said:
J4CKO said:
.. it now has Pot Noodle on it from lunch which I am equally as enthusiastic about but dont feel the need to wear a T shirt to show it.
I would buy a pot Noodle Tshirt and watch before Ferrari ones.
Yeah, agreed

Any Ferrari Badge stuff says wannabe if you dont have one or "Did I happen to mention I have a Ferrari" if you do, only really acceptable if you are a kid or have the mind of one, the only thing that should wear a Ferrari badge is a Ferrari.

The more awesome and impressive your car is, the more discreet you need to be about it I think.

Chris Stott

19,503 posts

226 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Schermerhorn said:
Ferrari's own brand watches are quite naff.

Panerai and Girard-Perregaux however do some lovely ones.



Sticking the Ferrari logo on those just devalues them.

Panerai and Girard-Perregaux are more prestigious brands in their own right than Ferrari is.