That Hodinkee travel clock sure hit some raw nerves...

[Dimman]

Not ripped off, they know what they're buying. I say fair play to hodinkee!

I don't think they did. They grossly overstated the quality of the movement used in it.

[Raza]

I suppose the fact that there were buyers justifies the product in a purely capitalistic way. It's easy enough simply to ignore dumb products and look the other way. In any case, I have ogled vintage LeCoultre travel clocks on eBay which looked like beautiful specimens for $500 and less. Easy to ignore the Hodinkee scam. (I do find it somewhat amusing that people got mad about it, though... )

I had a travel clock like that when I was a kid. Except I think it was a Casio that came free with a magazine subscription or something. I used to pretend it was a Star Trek communicator.

But this one got me looking at vintage travel clocks, so there is a positive.

[geoffbot]

I had a travel clock like that when I was a kid. Except I think it was a Casio that came free with a magazine subscription or something. I used to pretend it was a Star Trek communicator.

But this one got me looking at vintage travel clocks, so there is a positive.

I have a travel clock on my wrist

[Raza]

I have a travel clock on my wrist

That one works when you’re pretending to be Dick Tracy, not when you’re pretending to be on a USS Enterprise away team.

[Radharc]

I'll say this: they certainly reached peak pretentiousness.

[Matt]

If I remember rightly, I bought the JLC original of this as a potential 'more for a score' entry:



but went with something else for some reason. So yes, I'd echo the overpriced a tad

[crownpuller]

^^^ Extreme Steampunk.

[Perseus]

I missed the fun, was the focus on making fun of Hodinkee or calling them insensitive for selling a travel clock?

[Perseus]

I had a travel clock like that when I was a kid. Except I think it was a Casio that came free with a magazine subscription or something. I used to pretend it was a Star Trek communicator.

But this one got me looking at vintage travel clocks, so there is a positive.

I did the same thing, and then I remember servicing costs and quit.

[OTGabe]

I'll say this: they certainly reached peak pretentiousness.

That artisan sweater was clearly made from angora fibers hand plucked and carefully curated from rabbits who have been sustained on a diet of kombucha and wakame seaweed while only pooing on current copies of The Atlantic and The New Yorker.