"So?"

That's the response you want. Complete andutter boredom. You don't care. Their entire personality is built around a weird little status structure and if you don't buy into their hallucination they lose their everloving minds

"that's a lot of money for such an ugly watch."

Does 0 to 60 in ONE minute! It's garbage.

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

"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)

“Ok”

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.

"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."

"How fast does it do 0-60?"

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

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

Look of confusion "Does...does that make you happy?"

-or-

"Was it worth it?"

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

"what?"

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

"one more time?"

"ok. thanks for letting me know."

"It's not my fault you're stupid"

laughs gently and sighs

"This is a six ounce cup of bath water from a YouTube influencer..."

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

"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."

Sorry I'm not into bracelets

"So, you're both rich and stupid"

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

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

"Didn't ask"

"I wouldn't want to paint a target on my back like that. Did you hear about Chesterwick's son getting kidnapped while backpacking in Burma?"

get really really enthusiastically interested in the watch. ask for details seem super impressed. massage that wealthy ego to the point of basically a blow job. but then just like keep going. see how long you can keep the topic on that one specific watch. don't ever let him talk about anything that the watch means or about the dynamic he tried to establish.

optionally, loose interest and leave without ever having let anything be said that wasn't about the watch. this is how you weaponize autism against egotists.

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."

Man, it is a shame you can't buy class because you could use some.

"Cool story bro. Needs more dragons."

I'd just start laughing and point at them.

good, maybe you can sell it to buy some human decency then

"mine was 5 bucks at goodwill, sounds like you got scammed, sorry"

"and yet your dad still don't love you."

That's quiet an expensive way to look cheap