Tech Eye: With this watch, you're spoiling us
It's a time for seeing family and friends, which always means TechEye has to take a little trip to the local prison. Usually we don't mind calling in to see Uncle Felonious TechEye, but at Christmas his friends know you're going for a visit and barely a day goes by without one of the local heavies, which Uncle has been stitching up from 'inside', coming around with a seasonal goodwill message to deliver. Often the only way to pass the message is orally, which is fine when it was the ex-girlfriend behind bars and there was a good excuse for getting a bit affectionate in the visitors' room, but the guards are now getting suspicious of me and Uncle's mouth-to-mouth resuscitation routine.
However, home is where the heart is at Christmas, and never is there a better time for a spot of nocturnal window-entering than now. Not only do people leave all the good stuff out for you, sometimes it's even gift-wrapped with the prices already taken off, making it much easier to pawn off to Frank the Fence of a Sunday morning.
And the indulgence - oh, the heady stuffing ourselves full of any substance that's once known the touch of a brewer is a pure delight. The beauty is that it's all acceptable behavior in the spirit of celebrating the birth of He Who Was Put On This Earth To Save Us (we've never understood why we put up Christmas trees to celebrate the birth of Superman, but then TechEye never was one for the religious fundamentalism).
At Christmas we really do spoil ourselves, especially when it comes to gadgets. So for that special person, what could be better than this Quenttin watch from Jacobs & Co? We have no idea why it looks the way it does or what it can do that would possibly justify the stupefying price tag, which is $340,000-360,000 or roughly zł.979,295-1,036,901 (though the case in either white or rose gold or magnesium, the 40 jewels and the fact that they are only making 135 of them might have something to do with it. Still, they could have stretched to something a bit rarer than rubber for the strap). However, we don't care how much it costs, we want one now and we'll do anything for it. Looks like we could be going to prison a lot sooner than we thought.
