Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Need group wisdom on pricing for 2007 F430

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

Macallan, 25 year old, neat

On 2/7/2010 4:10 PM, Brian E. Buxton wrote:
> Ok so I have to ask - what is your current fave scotch?
> 
> Brian E. Buxton
> Buxton Motorsports, Inc.
> 301 North Royal Ave.
> Buxton Plaza
> Evansville, IN 47715-2866
> 
> (812) 760-5513  mobile
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> On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'll agree with you there, Brian.
>>
>> My favorite scotch (currently) is $600 a bottle.
>>
>> and if you came to my house and had a drink, you'd never know
>> that it wasn't $50 a bottle scotch.
>>
>> If I hear "Wow, this is really good".
>>
>> My reply is general "Yeah, I thought you might like it".
>>
>> If you have to jump up and down and inform your guest that the
>> bottle you just polished off cost $X - what's the point?
>>
>> Still looking for that genuine 1963 bottle of Macallan.
>>
>> That's likely only $2,000 or so though.
>>
>> (Folks, I can drive a Chevy if need be, but life is just too
>> damn short to drink cheap booze!)
>>
>> On 2/7/2010 2:32 PM, Brian E. Buxton wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I agree about people wanting to show off their
>>> investments / acquisitions. How often do you see anyone walking down
>>> the street with a Picasso, a box of $25,000 cigars or a $10,000 bottle
>>> of champagne?  Quite the opposite. They buy those items for
>>> themselves. And they usually keep their purcases very quiet.  Hence
>>> all of the anonymous buyers at high end auctions of all types. The
>>> items bought satisfy a totally different need other than flash and
>>> recognition. And just has been pointed out - would the average person
>>> even recognize a $75,000 watch, or a collectible piece of art?
>>>
>>> Brian E. Buxton
>>> Buxton Motorsports, Inc.
>>> 301 North Royal Ave.
>>> Buxton Plaza
>>> Evansville, IN 47715-2866
>>>
>>> (812) 760-5513  mobile
>>> (812) 476-2281 x 209  office
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> Sent from my 3G Apple iPhone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Fellippe Galletta
>>> <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Mike Fleischer
>>>> <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ah man it looked nice and I got it with about 4 other watches, I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> even wear a watch unless I go out all fancy, and that almost never
>>>>> happens :).  Besides who would even recognize a Patek Phillipe?  A
>>>>> Rolex
>>>>> sure...  Heck I had no idea until after buying it and then I looked
>>>>> it
>>>>> up online...
>>>>>
>>>>> But to answer your question...  The guy who blew a million on a
>>>>> piece of
>>>>> jewelry, clearly not as smart as the guy who saved $999,940.00 for
>>>>> something that might actually be useful.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The world of high end watches is very fascinating to me as I do not
>>>> quite
>>>> understand it.
>>>>
>>>> I understand the world of $upreme cars and $upreme audiophile sound
>>>> systems
>>>> very well, two drug habits that have no cure....and should have no
>>>> cure :)
>>>>
>>>> But watches I find harder to get especially once you get past the
>>>> $10k mark
>>>> or so. The more "high end" the watch, often times the less flashy
>>>> and more
>>>> discreet (like Patek Phillipes). A friend of mine (former lister who
>>>> will
>>>> remain nameless!) told me he took off his buddy's $75k watch at a
>>>> bar and
>>>> realized he forgot to put it back on after he left. He came running
>>>> back
>>>> about 15-20 minutes afterwards and it was still there! He said if it
>>>> was a
>>>> $3k Rolex it would have been gone...lol.
>>>>
>>>> I try to get into the mind of these guys....they really seem to be
>>>> into the
>>>> workings of the watch, the craftsmanship, some of the same things some
>>>> Ferrari enthusiasts are into about Ferraris. To a certain point
>>>> that's fine
>>>> but when you get to serious money watches, I can't imagine you'd be
>>>> buying
>>>> them without some sense of wanting to show them off so at some point
>>>> that
>>>> has to come into play. And then it would be somewhat hypocritical
>>>> because
>>>> that's what their beef is against expensive Rolexes and Tag Heuers.
>>>>
>>>> If you really have all the money in the world then maybe these are
>>>> worthy
>>>> acquisitions, but otherwise hard to rationalize, IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> FG
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