IS IT A TREND?? IS IT A TREND WORTH CONTINUING?

I was just sitting, mulling over things that required solutions near the end of last year, debating whether I should make contact with my lawyer sooner than later. At that hour he would either be in court or driving off to some vague duty. I dislike chatting with anybody when they are in traffic. Looking at my mobile, I noticed that the man must be clairvoyant since I managed to miss a call from him. How could he know that I needed his legal advice again? In fact he was hoping that I could help his son still studying in university source a 2 tone 41 mm Rolex Datejust as his wedding gift from his future father in law. Of course I have no rock solid connections that allows me easy access to a Rolex from an ad for MSRP, I get that request more than I can count. There is a small army of those special individuals in the city who can help, are cautioned by their friends and even perhaps executives drawing pay checks from Rolex Canada to remain discreet about their unique status: I am reminded of meeting the gent who was picking up a timepiece from the Breitling HO wearing a Rolex James Cameron Sea Dweller who admitted that he is able to buy his Rolex watches directly through a business colleague who is able to just call somebody for an occasional favour. Nice well mannered man who did not know what a Rattrapante Navitimer does besides looking expensive. Suddenly I recalled a previous convo when my lawyer asked if I wanted to buy a lightly worn Breitling watch or if I had any ideas as to who might. Apparently his brother’s former son in law had returned the watch gifted to him when his marriage to my lawyer’s niece ended shattered like a cheap plastic child’s watch. So it was a trend that I did not know about. My wife sent me along with my future son in law to order up a suit that would photograph well with our daughter’s wedding day gown. She did not trust a young man who had never owned a sincere suit so many years already after graduating university studies. I agreed to use my credit card thinking a guy who favoured Shinola watches and G-Shocks would be a walk in a park but life is always surprising, his lovely winter grey double breasted suit set me back more than any formal garment that I have ever owned. Somehow this horological arrangement between a father of the bride and his future son in law does not rests comfortably in my simple mind, I cannot quite figure out the why! My son in law’s BFF just performed his “I dos” with his longtime lady friend, the bride’s parents made the pleasant but long flight from Taipei, Taiwan delivering a JDM GS Spring drive dress watch to their daughter’s new hubby. The father of the nervous groom gifted his son a gold and steel Rolex Submariner. The young man already a working realtor wears a G-Shock did not hint a desire for upgrades. The pensive elders felt he was ready for timepieces a step above his preferred Casios. I gifted a Breitling black PVD coated Avenger Blackbird to my son in law from my own stash of timepieces a few years after he and my daughter married. He was allowed to pick from several and one day will receive more when the time is appropriate. It is a truly insignificant debate that may concern only a watch enthusiast and an event few of my friends are willing to give any cogent thought to since very few have daughters still married to their original one true perfect love. That might be a more interesting conversation than allowing some young man to select his own dream watch. My wife ignored my request for an opinion hinting that my disquiet about the practice has to do with my own feelings about ceilings and floors: one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor, that I might not be able to respect a future son in law’s grail watch selection. I am not that fragile, haha.