I would want to shove this up the ass of anyone who actually buys it. Wearing something that could buy a needy family a fairly good-sized home on your wrist.....and IT ONLY TELLS TIME. UGH

I hear that Gov. Palin was thinking of buying one back in October! JK!

Esta padre

you whine asses this watch is the best one i'v ever bought. it was my money i worked hard to earn why should i give it away to people who can't get off their asses to get a job. wake up and smell the capitalism i shouldnt have to feel bad spending my money on whatever i want

Have to say I agree with Got One. If someone worked to get then they deserve it. The computers we use to comment on articles on the internet could feed a family in Africa for a year should I feel bad about that too? I mean since I should just give my money away..

The thing is that most rich people get that way from the sweat of their underpaid workers w/poor health care. "get off their asses and get a job"??? -that is an extremely stupid comment!! There are many people who work 2 or 3 jobs and are on the edge of losing their home(including those with college degrees). No,you shouldn't just throw your money away,many people start foundations which eventually fund themselves. No one expects you to do any of that,but you are a real sucker if you buy this thing. Why not plane or boat or something?

@GOT ONE. I wasn't whining at all,I'm just saying that people like you are scumbags. I hope someone desperate realizes the value of that easily pocketable item on your wrist and does something desperate to get it. Have you already picked out a 10 million dollar gravestone? (On a side note-Paris Hilton recently got $2 millon in valuables stolen f/her home,HOORAY!)

Thats quite stunning but its better to buy a casio which just tells the the time and buy a iphone this christmas

The real question is could/will some of the steampunk craftmeisters see this and build and sell a cheap ($100 or less) knock-off

That's one ugly watch!

Got One, you chose an amazing watch. I love anything mechanical, and the fact that this is amazingly complicated AND mechanical, amazes me even more. Good for you, if you work hard to move yourself up the economic ladder, you have every right to buy something that is within your means. I would kill for a watch of this caliber, so I hope you truly enjoy it. I know I would!! To anyone who degrades another person for simply buying a watch, what gives you the right to pass judgment upon someone else for making a purchase? afterburner909, its completely out of line to call someone a scumbag for spending their hard earned money on something they want. Stop being bitter and move on. I couldn't afford it, yet I think that it is an amazing watch and also within someone's rights to buy it, even though I can't. Stop complaining and let it go.

-Azazel

Got One, you chose an amazing watch. I love anything mechanical, and the fact that this is amazingly complicated AND mechanical, amazes me even more. Good for you, if you work hard to move yourself up the economic ladder, you have every right to buy something that is within your means. I would kill for a watch of this caliber, so I hope you truly enjoy it. I know I would!! To anyone who degrades another person for simply buying a watch, what gives you the right to pass judgment upon someone else for making a purchase? afterburner909, its completely out of line to call someone a scumbag for spending their hard earned money on something they want. Stop being bitter and move on. I couldn't afford it, yet I think that it is an amazing watch and also within someone's rights to buy it, even though I can't. Stop complaining and let it go.

-Azazel

Hey Got One, if I ever spot you with this watch I'll just go to the nearest corner and shout that you're wearing a $250K watch. Someone will follow you home and give you a taste of where capitalism fails.

Now if we all buy one.... may be next year the price wouldn't be more than a Casio...

Could someone put up a video of this in action, its not pretty enough for a piture only

To Afterburner: stop being a jealous idiot! If he has the money to buy this watch he should be able to buy it without whiney crybabies like yourself covering your jealousy with criticism over spending that money. My cousin is worth over 20 million dollars because in high school he started a DJ business that he finally drove out of business (he put his name in the business name so when he was ready to get out no-one wanted to buy it with the stipulation that they change the name and he didn’t want his name attached to something he had no control over) by charging 5 times the going rate and had 10 Dj’s under him and people still willing to pay the inflated rates. After that he put his money into another business starting it in a trailer (he now has 50 stores in 3 states) and buying houses cheep so he could rent them cheep. He has the right to spend his money how ever he wants for anyone who wants to do the same try it out and see how much sitting on you're a$$ mooching off your employees you do!

To Got One: YOU IDIOT!!! It’s a watch! Next time get yourself a $50,000 Rolex with diamonds and precious stones all over it and use the rest to buy a few other things. $250,000 is too much money to spend on just a watch (no matter how complex and sophisticated it is!). I’m not criticizing you for spending your money… just for wasting it!

Greedy s o b , that watch is a piece of junk the chain that is used is so delicate it breaks easily.

Why disrespect a casio? Back in 83 casio had a goal of making the toughest watch on the planet and they acheived that goal in an affordable package. I love casios for the pure utilitarian tool purpose for which they were created. As for the 250k watch...I would have bought a Rolex Submariner or a Panerai instead. Much better watches in their classic good looks. I have had both and sold both. Damn the ecomony. Now I rock a casio.

Amazing piece of work, a testament to it's designer's creativity and truly unique way of thinking. Those who say "it only tells time" should stick to their Timex - they don't deserve anything better. Same goes to those that will fork up the additional 400 grand to adorn it with platinum and diamonds. This is a functional work of art, nothing more and nothing less.

hey ikillzu that i believe would make you an accesory to the crime if one were to argue that you pointed out a target to a thief adn on a side note let some one stop by the house do you realy think that if i can afford a watch like this i dont have a formidable security system and that i am foolish enouhh to go out in public with out some form of (legal) protection for myself.
and after burner i get seasick and dont like to fly and im not sure if you have checked into the cost of buying and maintaining a private jet or even nice prop plane but 250k wouldnt last long and wouldnt the use of the fuel for the plane be a "waste" of MY money also if i can travel by car or train (prefered method) to a destination. and for all your and others disgust over my purchase dosent it make you all hippocrates for wishing your fellow man ill and hoping i get robbed and possible killed by another person yeah you guys aree quite the humanitarians shame on you all.

and thanks to all of you who helped to defend me, you are the true people here not the phoney 2 faced ones that want help for some while condeming others.
i suppose in a perfect world all people would have the same of everything and all work together in a COMMUNAL way (sounds alot like communism huh and we all see how well that has worked out. you judge me without knowing me solely based on a purchase i made you have no idea if or how much i have donated or raised to help the less fortunate. but i will say i was not born into mony and did a lot of jobs for verry little money and clawed my way up there are always jobs available (in america at least) and if you cant afford to live to an acceptable standard maybe you should look at how your money is spent maybe they should have practiced some restraint when having children or living above their means. i find most people i come in contact with that have no job choose not to have a job because they wont settle for something they feel is beneath them.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and judge not lest ye be judged.

Yeah, it's a cool looking watch, and is probably perfect at keeping time, but my Casio has calculator.

To GOTONE: While I wouldn't spend that much money on a watch, its your money - do what you want with it. The watch looks pretty cool.

To AFTERBURNER: If you're so concerned with people being bigots and jerks and not helping others, stop wasting your time commenting on this website and go do something about it. If you know so much about what's wrong in society in the world, then change it. All I've seen so far from you is complaints. So shut up, or do something about it, then you can whine all you want. So far though, the only scumbag I've seen here is you.

To IKILLZU: Quite possibly the dumbest comment I've ever heard. I'm not even going to go any further.

GOTONE: while I appreciate the hard work and time that I'm sure has gone into reaching your current state of financial prosperity, I have to say.... there is simply no reason to spend 1/4 million dollars on a WATCH, other than being able to say that you're the kind of person who CAN.

Yes it's your money, and yes you can do what you want with it.... but as much as this thing is beautiful, and a work of functional art, I cannot help feeling that buying a watch that costs as much as a house says something about a person's character. It says something about where their priorities are. And since you felt compelled to drop a bible verse into the conversation... well, you may want to have a look at what that book has to say about the use of wealth. Luke 12:13-34 for example.

PAFISHER: I'll just say: how do you know any of us aren't? This is a comment on a website.... you have no clue how any of us spend our time. And yet the implication seems to be that no one who isn't Mother Theresa has any right to say that, in a world where thousands die every day for lack of food and clean drinking water, spending 1/4 Million dollars on a watch is absurd. Apparently, making this observation is "whining", or "jealousy", and must come from someone who is "lazy", a "know it all", a "bleeding heart" who hates his "betters".

That's enough quotation marks, but really.... get off your high horse (and you may consider taking your own advice). A glance at current events reveals this to be manifestly irrational behavior for anyone who doesn't consider themselves the center of the universe.

(And I work in social services, so no crap about "get off the internet and go change the world" please. This probably makes me an ARROGANT whiner rather than a jealous whiner, but eh... sometimes you can't win.)

Reply to comment by afterburner909.
You idiot liberals are too much. Instead of someone working hard enough (yes rich people by and large work hard--to provide jobs for unmotivated assholes like yourself) to buy a luxury and investment for themselves they should buy a house for someone NEEDY. How much would YOUR prescribed limit be for a watch purchase?
How much would YOUR prescribed limit be for a
car? A house? A meal? A TV? A stereo? A fishing rod? A boat? And so on and so on. Of course it would be up to YOU (liberal) to decide what anyone can do with their disposable income--right?
Instead of your car, you could have purchased a bike and given the extra couple of grand to a NEEDY family. Of course you did not. Instead of buying a fan to stay cool you could have purchased mosquito netting for some poor Africans.
But of course you didn't. Instead of paying for an internet provider AND your computer, you could pay the medical expenses of an (NEEDY) illegal Mexican who has screwed yet another hospital emergency room for a hangnail from jumping the fence. What about the craftsmen who build fine things? Without these purchases they would be NEEDY. Oh, by the way. Who decides who is NEEDY and who is in the predicament they are in because they expect dipshits like you to pick them up?
Drunks, dopers, illegal’s and women spitting out babies like a fucking Pez dispenser------all NEEDY in your book. NO? Then I suppose YOU would have to prescribe those parameters also. You have a lot to do! Helping all these NEEDY people can fix only one thing, your effeminate save the world attitude.
Listen. Want to save the world? Work hard and spend a lot----that simple. Let the NEEDY choose if they want to be a part of it.

What a neat bit of kit! I can't believe I bought Big Ben for Christmas and now this is on the market. Instead of walking around with my left arm dragging along the ground, carrying several hundred tons of the Palace of Westminster, I could've had a Babbage calculating machine from 1840. Gosh, I'm banging my head on the North face in frustration.

Yeah its a complicated looking watch but is it waterproof? because it seems its parts are exposed.

aren't words like "liberal" and "conservative" wonderful? They completely save one from having to actually consider what the other person has to say, so long as they can be placed firmly in the "enemy" camp. And open the way for substituting ad hominem arguments and insults for intelligent dialog. It lets one totally write the other person off as either an amoral fat cat who eats poor children for lunch, or a spineless sissy treehugger.... if i wanted to engage in that kind of "discussion", I'd go back to 4th grade.

Point is this: the fact that you worked hard for your money doesn't mean $275,000 isn't a positively stupid amount of money to spend on a wristwatch. And as comforting as it must be to assume that everyone who is poor ( as per Scaredeycat's argument) is lazy and unmotivated, the fact is that quite apart from the "welfare queens" of the world, there are a ton of people out there who are working as hard as anyone but are honestly too busy trying to feed their families to be "upwardly mobile". So, to turn the argument around.... I guess someone who was raised by people who can't read and honestly wants to do well but is too busy busting their tail to get by is "lazy" and "unmotivated". I guess the kid of the drug addict who only knows what they've been around all their lives is a "lazy asshole". Wow, you have some work to do too, whipping all the freeloaders into shape and making the world safe for people who can drop a quarter-million dollars on a wristwatch!

(and let's talk about the "illegals", who're taking coveted jobs like picking tomatoes 12 hours a day for less than minimum wage from hardworking americans..... in my state not long ago, a 13-year-old was admitted to the ER. It seems he worked at a local factory, and in the course of his work day had managed to have his arm torn off. The ER did what they were required to do... they closed the wound and turned him in to the police, and he was deported. The hard-working factory owner, clearly busy creating jobs for "unmotivated assholes" like this kid, recieved no legal consequences whatsoever for putting a kid who hasn't hit puberty yet in the position to have his arm torn out of the socket, because he wasn't a citizen. But, y'know, if that's a job you want, go right ahead...)

So spend your money any way you want. But the fact is there are thousands dropping dead because, by no fault of their own, they don't have clean water. There are folks eating out of garbage cans because, again by no fault of their own, something in their brain doesn't fire right. There are kids who can't help who their parents are getting sucked into the same cycle of insanity. And those of us who CAN, can either change it or feed our stupid gluttony.

Me? What do _I_ do? Well, I got bitten at work today. By an emotionally disturbed 12 year old. Because working with the abused and angry kids no one wants to deal with may not buy me a $275,000 watch... but at the end of the day, no schmuck in a hummer can call me unmotivated.

Still, Scaredycat, your planet sounds nice. Are there unicorns there? With really nice watches?

Hey Elias.
You blow a lot of smoke.
Maybe the ferocious little aids infected bastard bit you on the wrist. If so, you could hide the scar with one of those watches!
You are my social worker hero.
Did you bite him back?
Also, on my planet we whip unicorns into submission, and then they are forced to stand motionless in the town squares and serve as sundials. If they are off by more than one second each month, we deem them unmotivated and they are slaughtered in front of emotionally disturbed 12 year olds. Kind of like shock therapy. I must say though, that the greatest benefit of my planet is the distance from earth. No Mexican is smart enough or motivated enough to build a vehicle to travel here. The attempt would be funny though. Imagine an ion drive Chevy Impalla low rider with 13 of those fuckers piled in there for the 12 light year trip. Whoooo that won't smell so good.

Why do you socialists figure it's any of your damn business how much I paid for my watch?

My money, my business. Go and get a real job.

SCAREDYCAT: Keep proving your moral and social superiority by way of heaving insults instead of actual logical arguments. That certainly showed me.

Frankly, I refuse to be upset by someone who not only can't seem to form a reasonable argument, but likes to make fun of abused children (although I probably set you up for that) and is clearly racist.

You and your ego have a nice day. Hope your charming philosophies work out for you.

Art and science together is beautiful. The technology to make this is new and evolving. Nano technology is growing at a rate that in a few years they could be mass produced and the "gimme one, i voted democrat" will be able to have them. Of course by then they will be complaining about a new technology they dont understand, can't appreciate and aren't willing to work for.

Actually this isn't really new technology. The chain drive is called a Fusee and, I believe, was invented in the 1700s.

I love art and science together, personally. I just think there's a point where something becomes an exercise in ridiculous excess.

Got one: I'm going to go ahead and assume that your post was bogus and that everyone else here is a fool. I don't believe for a second that a person with the means to afford a 300k watch has the grammatical skills of a second grader, which is evidenced by your semi-incoherent rant. Or you're a rapper.

Fudge: HA! Y'know, I was thinking it, but didn't wanna cross the line into mean.

Thank you for having the fortitude I lacked.

There's a watch blog in here somewhere...

This thing is neat

@Fudge Splosion

thank you for saying it. i was reading all these comments and the second i started Got One's i declared bullshit and assumed that everyone else would as well, yet to my supreme shock and disappointment kept reading without seeing that. i had all but lost my remaining faith in humanity's common sense when i finally got to yours and positively rejoiced. so again thank you.

and am i the only one who saw that the first person declared themself as got one and the second person declared themself as gotone (notice the lack of space between words and the differences in writing structure.)? after winning the bet that got one doesn't have anything close to a $275,000 watch i would go double or nothing on the fact that it was two different people.