and pointy shoes
..... And the other thing, at the risk of taking us further off-topic, were the number of folk who pulled their shirtsleeves up at the start of a meeting so you could see their watch. Evidently there seems to be some sort of horological hierarchy. Who knew, or more importantly, cares?
I must look out my fake Rolex, then. Cost me $55 at some long-forgotten past time in my wanderings. It says “Bollox” on the face, if you look close enough...
Don’t under-estimate the power of watches! I was just in Japan with No 2 Son, he having been awarded some tickets for the RWC through a scheme at his employers, and Tudor Watches were a sponsor. David Beckham apparently endorses them, as do the All Blacks.
I have one, as it happens (they are basically a poor man’s Rolex, the Skoda Scout to Rolex’s Audi All Roads) bit no one offered ME so much as a free pint on the strength of it. Mind you, we DID see one chap dressed as Henry VIII in the queue for the bus at Oita, so HE was “on message”..