Barber Shop Surprise

[Alfa2109]

Originally Posted by FIGJAM

So I have read many of your posts since joining recently and was politely wondering if your bed only has one side to wake up on?

[Das]

Originally Posted by FIGJAM

So I have read many of your posts since joining recently and was politely wondering if your bed only has one side to wake up on?

[El Patron]

My average cut with a beard trim is $65 plus tip, so about $75 every 3 weeks. I bet he does 10 cuts a day. One man shop and I have to book in advance. He is classic barber, full service. When he worked at downtown shop, they were charging $150 for his cuts, now with his own shop, same service but not the flash of a fancy location. He can easily afford a nice things with that income. PM me if your looking for a great cut near Naperville


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[sutats]

Wearing a valuable watch as a customer in a barber shop is potentially one of life's greatest follies. Probably a little less foolish as a barber. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...-shop-21114445

[miket-nyc]

Originally Posted by 1665fan

Tips will go down when your flashing a daytona or hulk and the guy whose hair your cutting has a tag....

Actually, I don't think most people notice or care. In NYC people sell counterfeit Rolexes on the street. I'm a retired attorney, but I dress very casually, and I suspect anyone who recognizes my watch probably assumes it's a fake.

Mike Taglieri

[Widows Son]

Originally Posted by DCheeta

One block from my apt, I’d go scope out his wrist but he doesn’t wear a watch. Fun story.

Since the pandemic started my new barber is my wife. She wears a Datejust.

We must have the same wife. Bought a $25.00 clippers from Cosco a year ago March. The warden has got very good with it, even has the fade down perfectly in the back. Saves me about $30.00 a month. Now would I allow her near my throat with a straight razor, that's a different animal.

[smithsj716]

Got to talking watches one day at my barbershop.

Now one barber wears his bluesy and the other his DJ41 Wimbledon every time I walk in lol


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[RJM25R]

Originally Posted by miket-nyc

I got a haircut today and as I was paying the guy at the register on the way out, he looked at my wrist and said, "Hmm, Sub or GMT?"  I said it was a Sub and I noticed that his wrists were bare, which seemed strange for a Rolex guy. "I don't wear my watches in here," he said. Then he showed me a picture of one on his phone -- a Daytona he got for $25,000. I said you might not wear a Rolex to work if you dig ditches or something, but you can't damage it cutting hair. He said he may wear his Yacht Master sometime.

I suspect this isn't just one of the barbers but the owner, because he's at the chair next to the cash register and is almost always the one who takes your money. This is a barber shop with 7-8 barbers, all Russians, on Fulton Street in Manhattan.

The guy who cuts my hair has a few.

He’s got a 16013, 116334, 114060, 116610LV, 16613LB, 16710 and a 16622 plus a couple of tags and and a Panerai.

He does work hard though, and these pieces have been bought from bonuses or in one case an inheritance from his Mum.

By the way, I cut my own hair…..

[knighty88]

Originally Posted by peterpl

I know early 20s who have taken out loans to wear a full gold Skydweller or DD40 or Platinum Daytona.

The young guys these days got their priorities all wrong. They are still working as entry level jobs or still studying with absolutely ZERO to their name yet wearing a watch bought with a loan usually worn by highly established and successful business men and investors.

Absolute bonkers if you ask me.

I didn't realise you'd met all of 'the young guys these days'... Their money, their choice...

Posts about generational priorities (IMO) serve no purpose, other than to indicate bitterness and create division. Times change and people evolve, as do their life choices.