So, Vacheron Constantin makers, don't despair. Now, more gift-givers, your target clients, will know the value of the watch. The only difference: Those who use it will do so for its heirloom value. So, the best way is to reposition it as a watch to keep, not one to show off.
There are two lessons one can learn from this episode. Depending on who you are and where you stand in the intricate interplay of shifting power, you may come out with one of the two epiphanies.
Important people may dress down rather than dress up, inadvertently putting themselves one step higher on the lifestyle ladder. As I see it, there are three stages for a nouveau riche in terms of fashion sensibility.
Stage one: The door is flung open; outside winds gush in; one is dazzled yet incapable of imitating. In the 1980s, Chinese visitors to the US wore suits that were so conspicuous they would stand out in a crowd of hundreds. Tailors should take some of the responsibility. Most of them had forgotten how to make a decent suit even if they were given the right fabric. I remember a movie called Midnight made during the era, but about 1930s Shanghai, the business suits were so crummy the characters were laughed at as country bumpkins.
This is a stage where everything that glitters is gold.
Stage two is more like: Those that glitter may not be gold, but gold has to glitter.
This is the mentality of the 1990s when a few demographic groups got rich first and they couldn't wait to put a glorious glow around themselves. Unfortunately, many are caught in this era and cannot move on. They drink one brand of liquor not because they like it, but because it's the most expensive. They buy one brand of bag not because it meets their needs, but it's the kind the people they look up to carry around with them.
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