The next watch was $13,000, a Datejust, with a black face, and diamonds. It is while
link wearing this watch that I realized that if I am ever going to buy a watch, it might as well have diamonds on it. Again, if you had asked me before this trip if I wanted a Rolex with diamond numerals, I would have said heavens no, but now that I was wearing one, I found myself trying to parse $13,000 into some reasonable expenditure, over time – into a value rather than an act of sheer irrationality.