Just for fun - Do you tell your significant other when you buy a new watch?

Other! I don't have a significant other and do have lots of watches LOL. I like it this way, calm & quiet & only myself to please. Hahaha

We combined our accounts when we got married. Joint accounts mean we always let the other know when we buy something significant (like over $100) so that we can maintain a budget.

Nope, my money, my wrist, my business. Beside this will force me to feint interest in her shoes and handbags fetish and I already learned a painful lesson when I foolishly admitted that I never watched "Titanic".

Nope. I’m a big boy!! I need no permission 🤨… hmmph!!

We have a joint bank account, it would be hard not too.

It is very dependent on price. Less than $500, I don't check first and would tell her if she asks, but I don't discuss it before I purchase it. $500-$1000, I'll tell her before I do it, but I don't really discuss it. $1000+, I discuss it with her first.

I dont have a significant other but watches

Never asking for permission as she knows I won't buy anything jeopardizing our family budget but always tell her in advance, she will notice it anyway so no point in hiding

Before I buy? Usually not. After I buy? Always. I like to show her my new watch.

I'm trying to drop hints for an upcoming anniversary :)

edit: If I were to buy a $1000+ watch, I would discuss it with her first. I always love to hear her laugh.

Very much B. She couldn't give a flying one.

It's your money, no permission needed!

Very interesting how many people are interpreting this question as asking for permission...

Other - she's into watches as much as I am ( almost, she's not desperate enough to post on watch forums to strangers just to feed the addiction 🤣)

I’m with @Inkitatus (also, nice Caligula reference, BTW). Both my wife and I are into watches. We have shared wish lists. We plan our finances together and work together as a team in life for 20+ years. It works really well.

Well, if I’m buying something over a couple of thousand bucks, then I tell her what I’m doing…but for anything less, no, I just buy it. She really doesn’t care, though, one way or the other. After 53 years of marriage, there’s no surprises, anyway. 🥂

I think it depends. If I’m buying a Casio, she doesn’t care. If and when I buy a Zenith, I’ll discuss first to ensure that there isn’t something else like sending the kids to college in the way.

Im sending my kids to Army. All of them.

Maybe?, depending on how guilty I’m feeling.

I get a lot of slack financially as long as I can pay for all the household costs! 😅

Your wife has good taste.

Me and my wife agreed that if we need to get something serious for two of us - like a trip, for example, then we gonna discuss it and split the costs somehow. But if she's going on vacation with her mom, or I'm buying the watch - as long as all the bills are paid - we're completely free to use our disposable income the way we wanted.

Last year I wanted to buy a synth and it was the first synth I've bought since we got married, so I decided to tell her about the purchase. She said: "If you want to buy it - buy it, if you don't - don't buy it. It's not for me to decide"

I'm also kinda financing my hobbies from my hobbies - by reselling or trading, so it's not a big of a deal usually and I'm even able to make some profit from it.

To some degree I think most spouses have a sense that “this looks more expensive” than some other thing . . . Obviously anybody could look up the ballpark cost of a watch or a watch brand on a few seconds on the internet . . . But do they? They don’t want to know haha.

If it is a purchase of financial consequence, then we would definitely discuss it. If it’s “cheap as chips” (an expression I learned here and just love), then no. With one kid about to start college and another in the pipeline, we can’t screw around.

Of course, gifts that don’t set fire to the balance sheet are allowed.

It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!😅

I am thankful for pretty women with poor taste in men.

Seems like a fair exchange!

To which he replied; why do you need more than one pair of shoes?

You're allowed to spend the money YOU earnt? Good news.

I'm single and thus I only have to justify purchases to myself.

My girlfriend is very sweet, I work as an intern and I get roughly 600 dollars a month, so for my junghans she offered to help me buy the watch by paying for it and I would give to her 200 dollars a month until I repaid her( she work as a psychiatrist so she has some money to work with). Seems like she's a bank and this whole thing can be perceived as cold aahahah but I'm so glad that she would do that for me just to see me happy and glad with my new watch :) she did the same with another watch recently but it's the last one because I'll be hired full time soon!

I tell her about the watches so that she doesn't suspect the mistress.

We simply talk about watches to buy because we can hardly afford it (for now at least).