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Title: Watch Superstitions
Post by: iamyourfazaaa on October 21, 2013, 04:01:04 PM
I wonder if you guys have heard this before... Buying (and probably wearing) a PP will bring you success in business and health.

Do you give any credence to this and what other superstitions are out there when it comes to watches?
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: sidestreaker on October 21, 2013, 04:08:15 PM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: jason_recliner on October 21, 2013, 04:12:13 PM
I wonder if you guys have heard this before... Buying (and probably wearing) a PP will bring you success in business and health.

Do you give any credence to this and what other superstitions are out there when it comes to watches?

If you wear a Patek, you've already been successful in business. Or you have rich parents who already did all the hard work, in which case you already have good fortune.
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: davidtth on October 21, 2013, 04:14:03 PM
probably give you some kind of confident, hence you will work hard to pay for installment.... ?  :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: dpkong on October 21, 2013, 06:09:13 PM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

Nope.. doesn't seem to work so far..

 :(
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: lamhewtot on October 21, 2013, 06:36:57 PM
I've yet to hear that superstition, but I'm quite sure wearing a PP means success in business. :D
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: el118 on October 21, 2013, 07:04:54 PM
If that is true, there won't be any preown pp around Liao.
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: sidestreaker on October 22, 2013, 01:45:59 AM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

Nope.. doesn't seem to work so far..

 :(

hmmm, remember, it's all about timing (ironically...)




Here's another one I just remembered; if a watch is presented as a gift, it symbolised setting a time for the relationship with that person to end...

Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: RaymondT on October 22, 2013, 07:37:59 AM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

Nope.. doesn't seem to work so far..

 :(

hmmm, remember, it's all about timing (ironically...)




Here's another one I just remembered; if a watch is presented as a gift, it symbolised setting a time for the relationship with that person to end...



To add , for chinese ,if we giving a person a clock (shong zhong) , it means sending that person away for his/her funeral.. :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: hanz079 on October 22, 2013, 07:49:43 AM
Sometimes, the more superstitious chinese customers tend to look at the serial number or LE number...
numbers with 4 tend to be avoided... But malays like 4... They say it looks like a legs of a boss when sitting down... So, different cultures mean different things...
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: wshiong on October 22, 2013, 09:19:45 AM
Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: hanz079 on October 22, 2013, 09:21:49 AM
Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.

Maybe they think pre owned PP means the previous owner pokai liao and forced to sell... so got negative energy surrounding it... hehehe
Look at it another way... maybe the previous owner sell the PP coz he wanna upgrade... it's actually positive energy...  :Cheers:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: RaymondT on October 22, 2013, 09:26:12 AM
also buying from those pawn shop outside Macau casino cause buying a loser's watch..

Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: STT1987 on October 22, 2013, 03:59:00 PM
I wonder if you guys have heard this before... Buying (and probably wearing) a PP will bring you success in business and health.

Do you give any credence to this and what other superstitions are out there when it comes to watches?

The PP superstition is new to me, sounds suspiciously like something PP's marketing dept. would come up with. Like someone else has pointed out, if you are wearing a nice PP; you are probably already successful in business (or rich and probably can afford good health services.) This is mixing up cause and effect; and will probably just benefit PP... Although a PP is nice to have...

To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

Any girl that would jump you for a hunk of metal on your wrist, you really do not want. You will probably need to get a STD test afterwards.

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Here's another one I just remembered; if a watch is presented as a gift, it symbolised setting a time for the relationship with that person to end...
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o add , for chinese ,if we giving a person a clock (shong zhong) , it means sending that person away for his/her funeral..
The Clock superstition amongst the Chinese is well known. As is the watch as a gift (especially to a girl) as it times your separation from her.

also
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You shouldn’t give sharp, stabbing or sharp objects (knives, swords, daggers, and so on). This gift is a symbol of hatred, this also means the love will end soon. But this can also be avoided if such gift is symbolically purchased, you should give a giver a coin/

So these things (clock, watch, knife, mirrors and other such items) should never be given as gifts, if you need to - the receiver must symbolically give the giver a token amount ($1, 5 sen, 10 sen etc) to indicate that the item received is not a "gift" but a purchased item. I have always done this when I give stuff like that.

Interesting web-page about these gift superstitions:
http://viola.bz/gift-giving-superstitions/ (http://viola.bz/gift-giving-superstitions/)
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 22, 2013, 07:15:30 PM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

With so many fakes around,I think it will work against you! :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 22, 2013, 07:18:11 PM
Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.

Oh damn! i bought mine in an auction.
hmmmm i wonder who those "some" people are.
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 22, 2013, 07:19:45 PM
I wonder if you guys have heard this before... Buying (and probably wearing) a PP will bring you success in business and health.

Do you give any credence to this and what other superstitions are out there when it comes to watches?

Thanks for posting this thread.
I never knew there are so many "watch superstition" around before this. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: Calibr on October 22, 2013, 08:44:01 PM
But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models! ;D
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 22, 2013, 09:41:36 PM
But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models! ;D

 :Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor: :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: wshiong on October 22, 2013, 09:49:26 PM
Universal brand, even hell also accepted..
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: STT1987 on October 23, 2013, 05:31:35 PM
Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.

I will say that this "superstition" is definitely originated from the PP sales department!
 :Laughing_on_floor:  :Confused:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: sidestreaker on October 23, 2013, 05:51:49 PM
To attract the opposite sex, there's no better watch than a Rolex...  :D

With so many fakes around,I think it will work against you! :Laughing_on_floor:

Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Sometimes even people can be fake, literally   :Blue:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: sidestreaker on October 23, 2013, 05:54:48 PM
But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models! ;D

Heck if its gonna be burnt, why stop at Rolex, lets go all the way, man! Let's see some PP/VC/AP burning models!
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: Calibr on October 23, 2013, 06:24:05 PM
I think it's a mater of time paper PP/VC/AP watches will be used.. but currently, it's still Rolex, and perhaps Omegas too, as the huge Omega marketing machines are hyper-active there..

Extracts from Facts and Details website on Funerals in China: "...Paper houses—sometimes with paper servants and paper furniture—paper televisions, paper Rolexes, paper cell phones, paper condoms, paper Audis, paper Mercedes Benzes, paper ATMs, paper luxury villas and even paper cows for people that loves cows are all burned as offerings, often in Buddhist (rather should be Taoist) temples while monks chant and play flutes and cymbals.." and "...In recent years people have been burring paper Viagra and “Supergirls” dolls--inspired by the Chinese version of American Idol--to show off wealth.."
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 23, 2013, 08:44:38 PM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs
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Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: dpkong on October 23, 2013, 08:49:36 PM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:
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Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 23, 2013, 08:49:50 PM
But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models! ;D

Heck if its gonna be burnt, why stop at Rolex, lets go all the way, man! Let's see some PP/VC/AP burning models!

You see,undertakers or those Ah Peks making those "watches" only know Rolex.
That shows just how universally known Rolex is, as compare to PP/VC/AP etc..etc.

I love this thread.
It's going from boobs to Rolex to........ :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 23, 2013, 08:50:58 PM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:


Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:
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finally dpkong,we have something in common :Cheers:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: dpkong on October 23, 2013, 10:52:29 PM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:


Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:

finally dpkong,we have something in common :Cheers:
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Hopefully the start of many because a jubilee on a Patek is well..  :Blue:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: sidestreaker on October 24, 2013, 03:14:34 AM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:


Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:

finally dpkong,we have something in common :Cheers:
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Are you guys sure about this?

Just like any other fakes, looks and feel good in the beginning but after a few years (or worst, months), mainspring will loose its elasticity, slowly falls apart, the leather will start to sag to the floor and it'll cost more than the real thing to keep it 'shaped-up'. Quick thrills never lasts...

What would the neighbours say, huh?
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 24, 2013, 09:25:29 AM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:


Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:

finally dpkong,we have something in common :Cheers:

Hopefully the start of many because a jubilee on a Patek is well..  :Blue:
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dpkong,actually I've taken it out,
It's back to the rightful owner,...datejust 16233.
thanks again and have a nice day :Cheers:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: Devilzzz44 on October 24, 2013, 09:40:16 AM
Superstitions or not i think that's depends on each individual..:D
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: dpkong on October 24, 2013, 11:35:25 AM
Fake watch attracts fake B  :D :D Bs

Now that kind of fake,I don't complain. :thumbsup:


Oddly, I second that...  :Laughing_on_floor:

finally dpkong,we have something in common :Cheers:

Are you guys sure about this?

Just like any other fakes, looks and feel good in the beginning but after a few years (or worst, months), mainspring will loose its elasticity, slowly falls apart, the leather will start to sag to the floor and it'll cost more than the real thing to keep it 'shaped-up'. Quick thrills never lasts...

What would the neighbours say, huh?
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We flip them before it needs a major service..

 :Laughing_on_floor:
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: Yikkie on October 24, 2013, 12:05:32 PM


Hopefully the start of many because a jubilee on a Patek is well..  :Blue:

dpkong,actually I've taken it out,
It's back to the rightful owner,...datejust 16233.
thanks again and have a nice day :Cheers:
Thank god!  ;D. Don't be angry ok...I know it is your watch and you could do whatever you want to.  ;D
Title: Re: Watch Superstitions
Post by: ndtaan on October 24, 2013, 12:22:15 PM


Hopefully the start of many because a jubilee on a Patek is well..  :Blue:

dpkong,actually I've taken it out,
It's back to the rightful owner,...datejust 16233.
thanks again and have a nice day :Cheers:
Thank god!  ;D. Don't be angry ok...I know it is your watch and you could do whatever you want to.  ;D

No heart feelings bro.

But that's the way I am.
I understand the way you guys feel about watches after all the posting that I posted and read.
You guys are "purist" in every sense of the word and I respect that.

And I count myself lucky to have all of you to look over my shoulders when it comes to watches,and also to be a part of this wonderful Malaysia Watch Forum.

AND I WANT TO SHOUT OUT TO ALL YOU "BROTHERS IN WATCH" A BIG THANK YOU!!!!! :Cheers: