Obviously we all have our own circumstances, so I’m generally wondering: there is a difference between the watches we dream of and the watches we wear.
When I wear mine, I need to be not too flashy for clients while keeping it professional. I earn $105k as a middle manager in wealth management (MCOL), and the nicest watch I own is an Omega Seamaster ($5.9k).
Affordability aside, I’m weighing how much “nicer” of a watch can I get without “out-wearing my wage”.
I’d love to hear how others have approached this intangible; I can make my own decisions just looking for anecdotes.
It depends a lot where you live. When I was working in the Middle East, I could be in meeting with someone having a $50k watch on their wrist. Now in Germany, working on the same industry, that never happens. Between the two countries there is at least a 10x gap in the average price of the watches on a room.