Pocket Watch Watch 🫥

people out here paying $3,800 for a plastic pocket watch pic.twitter.com/QCa27Emjg5

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) May 17, 2026

you can even get a patek pocket watch for $5k! if you really wanted a pocket watch.

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) May 17, 2026

I know of a watchmaker in Austin (individual watch makers is a thing, like micro-breweries was.). I’m on his email list, and I’ve noticed his prices increasing as his sales outreach increases. Nothing wrong with that; the laborer is worthy of his hire, and all that.

I thought his watches had hit the nosebleed section, but I think I could buy three of his watches for $3800. And none of them are plastic. And, being wristwatches (rather than a watch dangled from the wrist) they are eminently more practical.

And here I thought the economy was bad. Or maybe it’s that gap between the “haves” and the “don’t have near so damned as much.” The “have nots” are not even on the internet. They’re invisible in America. They always have been. 🫥