The youtube algo got me, I've been watching a lot of watch influencer content lately.

1. Goddamn, I am never not surprised at how many rich people there are in the world.

2. Watch collecting is fucking weird.

3. Luxury watches are just "acceptable" jewelry for (white) men (of certain means) - and like other things the culture flows from the top while also flowing up from the bottom. Rappers want to exude wealth and class. Rich people want to be "in" and cool.

so, through a combination of growing up dirt poor and through layers of my own psychology at play, I've never owned jewelry or nice jewelry.

Even now, on my ring finger, I'm wearing a silicone band.
I wear silicone because I still work with my hands and I am freaked out about ring avulsion - but still, I could maybe stand to have A work/date night piece.


I grew up with scarcity I don't think jewelry is a sound way to spend money and I think of it as something that will have to be sold off to be able to eat because I'm simultaneous still "there" mentally of being poor - but I'm also just mad uncomfortable spending that much dough on something even if I could afford it.

I'm going to just save all of this for therapy. Goddamn.

>The youtube algo got me, I've been watching a lot of watch
>influencer content lately.
>
>1. Goddamn, I am never not surprised at how many rich people
>there are in the world.
>
>2. Watch collecting is fucking weird.
>
>3. Luxury watches are just "acceptable" jewelry for (white)
>men (of certain means) - and like other things the culture
>flows from the top while also flowing up from the bottom.
>Rappers want to exude wealth and class. Rich people want to be
>"in" and cool.
>
>so, through a combination of growing up dirt poor and through
>layers of my own psychology at play, I've never owned jewelry
>or nice jewelry.
>
>Even now, on my ring finger, I'm wearing a silicone band.
>I wear silicone because I still work with my hands and I am
>freaked out about ring avulsion - but still, I could maybe
>stand to have A work/date night piece.
>
>
>I grew up with scarcity I don't think jewelry is a sound way
>to spend money and I think of it as something that will have
>to be sold off to be able to eat because I'm simultaneous
>still "there" mentally of being poor - but I'm also just mad
>uncomfortable spending that much dough on something even if I
>could afford it.
>
>I'm going to just save all of this for therapy. Goddamn.
>
>

For what it's worth, I was "there" for a while because I literally couldn't afford it, but now that I can afford it, I find myself battling between what I want to wear, how much I want it to be of a certain quality, and how to practically think through how much I choose to spend on each piece

Short answer to your question: I currently rock beads and a watch. I will likely own two chains soonish, and may look into rings and bracelets at some point in the future. I do think it's a form of expression and I like the way I look with jewelry on

Two chains. ©️

One jade buddha pendent

Gold bracelet

I'm hairy like George the animal Steele I enjoy having my chest hair out with my chains nestled in there like a golden garter snake

and he puts his wedding ring on that.

he also likes these rings: https://www.clocksandcolours.com/

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now, both look nice and have fooled some folks.

i don't even know if those things are even considered jewelry. i don't consider them to be unless you wanna get wild technical about the wedding ring but that's not jewelry to me - that's just a requirement, LOL.

only expensive thing i'd ever wear that isn't shoes is a watch. i'd love to have a collection of expensive watches but the way my bank account is set up...

but i mean, earings, chains, bracelets, etc? not for me.

Yup…

Rangs, bracelet, watch and chains, dangle earring

Sitting somewhere between a flamenco guitar player and old african slanging incense and telling the future.

First its an easy collectible from world travels… paris, middle east, mexico, Native American jewelty etc..

And I just like that it easily steps up a fit…

And rap life

did a bit as I when I was younger. just stopped wearing any of it. not even the wedding ring.

an assortment of beads also. when the ship comes in def gonna upgrade the chain game just alil bit. wouldnt mind another diamond cut for that 2 chains look and maybe a nice cuban...gonna upgrade the watch too. im a grown ass man but that hip hopper in me just cant let it go lol.

Since I've gotten older I've really stopped wearing jewelry altogether outside of my wedding ring. Just don't have the same interest I once had. My wife jokes now that the only thing I wear is a fitbit these days after all those years of chains, watches, and rings lol

So, late 2002. I don't really have an interest in it, and it's one less thing to be stolen, broken, or lost somewhere.

It advertises your wealth to wolves already hungry. IMHO, the media marketing
strategy of encouraging black society to pursue jewelry as status is an attack on black society. Enjoy your riches fellow black man and black queen save those resources for your family and or invest them in things that appreciate in value.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

reason...

still on my bucket list.

this is just me, but something about wearing jewelry reads trying to hard to me.

In the past I've worn beaded bracelets. Just haven't in a few years now.

and regular watches years ago

otherwise, only my ring

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GB0G7A/

Was never a jewelry person other than wearing my wedding band. Owned a few watches in the past that I hardly wore. Recently purchased an Apple Watch. I’ve actually been looking at gold chains lately. I want a small rope chain and/or a Franco chain.

a cuff w/turquisoe stones

I own a few watches

and I forget to put the watch on half the time.

Never got the appeal of jewelry

Just not my thing.