"what?"

"I'm sorry I didn't catch that"

"one more time?"

"ok. thanks for letting me know."

Sad as fuck that you need expensive set pieces to maintain the facade of your self worth. If I were over here wearing a Timex I'd still be fine with who I was. Would you?

"People with true value don’t need trinkets to convince others of their worth."

"Not everybody knows how to make the best use of their resources."

"Unless it has a button that stops time, you paid too much."

See this casio watch? Still more accurate than whatever the fuck watch you have

"It's certainly a nice looking piece of jewelry"

"Timex?"

So you could have donated that money to a food bank or homeless shelter and gotten a tax break. Or you could have just kept it and invested in dividend paying stock, but instead you spent it on a watch that tells you the same time as my $20 watch?

I think the really wealthy old-money people would never say such a thing. Because such a thing just wouldn't occur to them. And if someone said that to them, they'd just kind of smile and nod the same way they would to a toddler. Maybe say "Ah, yes, very good." So that's probably the best response.

But if I were writing a screenplay and had to come up with a one-liner I'd probably go with, "Just goes to show you can't buy class."

"that's so sad"

But realistically probably nothing, someone like that isn't going to care enough about what you think to be affected by what you say.

"So, you're both rich and stupid"

"I don't have the habit of looking at other people's watches. Thanks for pointing it out, I guess, I might have otherwise missed that detail entirely."

(Biz-bro mind cannot comprehend this)

Sorry I'm not into bracelets

The statement is to set them apart from from you and to display power. So you could go with something like,

"Shit, they still make you buy your uniform when you rich eh. Some things never change."

But more elegantly. Reassert that they are subject to others' power/approval and relate to them to assert that they're no different from you.

Imagine not being able to tell the time by just looking up

And it tells the same time as a $5 Casio, but it's heavy and gaudy. I guess money can't buy taste.

seems like a giant waste of money when you have phone that has the time on it.

"Nice, but I kinda prefer the newer model from the spring catalogue. The subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark."

Yeah, but can your watch drive you to the store ?

“Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone’s garden”

"Wow, you're really shit at bargaining. They really took you for a ride!"

I have friends.

And I have the same watch, but paid $25 for it on a market in Cambodia.

"Was it meant to make you happier? I'm not sure it worked."

Nice.

I can read digital clocks faster.

Has this one done it? or how many such watches in do you get to be happy?

You paid that much for a watch that looks like you steal from your grandad?

"You got it wrong, expensive watches dont go faster"

"What's your point?"