Watch Superstitions

[iamyourfazaaa]

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?

[sidestreaker]

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

[jason_recliner]

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.

[davidtth]

probably give you some kind of confident, hence you will work hard to pay for installment.... ? 

[dpkong]

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

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

 

[lamhewtot]

I've yet to hear that superstition, but I'm quite sure wearing a PP means success in business.

[el118]

If that is true, there won't be any preown pp around Liao.

[sidestreaker]

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

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...

[RaymondT]

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

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..

[hanz079]

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...

[wshiong]

Some said if buy pp have to get a new, proowned means people bad luck will come to you.

[hanz079]

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... 

[RaymondT]

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.

[STT1987]

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... 

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.

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...
and
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

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/

[ndtaan]

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

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

[ndtaan]

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.

[ndtaan]

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.

[Calibr]

But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models!

[ndtaan]

But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models!

 

[wshiong]

Universal brand, even hell also accepted..

[STT1987]

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!
  

[sidestreaker]

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

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

Fake watch attracts fake B  Bs

Sometimes even people can be fake, literally   

[sidestreaker]

But the most popular watch "replicas" burnt during Chinese (Taoist) funerals are still Rolex models!

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!

[Calibr]

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.."

[ndtaan]

Fake watch attracts fake B  Bs
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Now that kind of fake,I don't complain.