Dingle Speaks

You know, it only seems to be a few months since I brought gold watches back but already I’m seeing a dearth of gold watches on the street, it seems like a reminder is needed..

So, I went off to YiWu with H last weekend and got golded up while I was there:

Actually I bought three gold watches of different designs (for about 2 quid each, and they’re REAL gold you know!!). It was Woai’s birthday so I figured I’d give one to him for his birthday and if me and Woai were getting golded up then I had to buy one for Balticginger too. I ended up with the gold divers watch (in the pic above) with a faux-bezel and an indecipherable name, Woai ended up with the executive Panerai style watch and Baltic ended up with the chronograph (with the chrono function just printed onto the dial rather than being actually real).

We managed to get Woai wearing his for about 10 seconds, just long enough for a photo, before he whipped it off and rearranged his sleeves to show off his Rolex, the miserable windbag…..

Anyway, that gave us a spare watch to play with! Here are some more pics of us all golded up like Russian gangsters:

Baltic presenting his signature cocktail, a large shot of Jack Daniels, lots of ice and a gold watch to finish.

Me, double fisting:

Gold vs Casio:

Balticginger between takes, at make-up

After a few beers we figured out where we’d been going wrong, gold watches shouldn’t be worn at the wrist, they should be worn slightly higher, quit a bit higher…

So I’m kind of back into watches again (I go through phases, it’s been a good year or so since the last phase though).

I figured it was kind of time that gold watches came back into fashion again (or are they already? I never bother to keep up). Anyway, after I click the publish button on this post I figure the demand for gold watches is pretty much going to go through the roof (and when I say roof I don’t mean a normal roof, I mean a high one, like in those Victorian terraced houses with gardens round the back) so I’m doing my best to secure the entire world’s stock of gold watches which I will drip-feed to the market at horrendous prices and emerge the other side a glorious trillionaire playboy, the sort who doesn’t spend long minutes poring over every last detail of the steak menu before ordering pork schnitzel at half the price, wears shoes made out of real leather and has one of those double-door refrigerators dispensing strawberry yoghurt at the front. God knows I’d probably go ahead and BUY Big Bamboo, then turn up all Bruce-Waynesque in my Hyundai Coupe, a beautiful young filly on my arm and walk into the full bar “but it’s full” she’d say, “you’ll never get a table at this time”. “Oh, I don’t think we need to worry”, I’d say, “I OWN the place” and then with a click of my fingers.. oh yes, gold watches, err… so far I’ve got five, well, four and a half.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Seagull gold / silver watch – the choice combination of stainless steel and gold make this the perfect choice when browsing expensive gentlemen’s magazines

Shanghai gold watch (yellow face) – the combination of the yellow dial with gold strap and casing making this the best choice when writing correspondence with the aristocracy continue reading…