Pinno718
Senior Member
- Location
- Way out West
Man wins the Lottery. Whilst down at the pub celebrating, he comes to the decisions that he would like a new watch, a fancy one. Something special.
"Go to London someone suggests..." then another says "No, you need to go to Switzerland. They make the best watches."
So he books himself flight to Geneva and looks in the windows of the watch shops immediately after arrival.
One shop displays watches but no prices. He wanders in and peruses them. The very polite gentleman behind the counter pulls out a few.
"This one..." he states "...is very very special. It's accurate to 1/100th of a second per annum and is waterproof to 100m"
The lottery bloke asks the price. He's told something iro £40k sterling, depending on service.
He looks at another even more exotic and is told that it is more accurate than the other, is waterproof to 250m, has bullet proof glass and costs around £60k.
"...and what about this one?"
"Oh well sir, this is very special. This is accurate to 1/1000th of a second per decade and has a 50 year guarantee. It's bullet proof, titanium backed and waterproof to 500m".
Lottery bloke buys the £100,000 watch, flies home and all the way there, does not look at his watch once. He decides he will wait till the 10 O'clock news.
So he sits there on his new leather couch in his over sized house in front of his UHD 180" screen telly, surrounded by his kids.
Bong! goes the initial 10 o'clock news broadcast and he slides his cuff back to see the time on his watch. The watch says 9.55. He turns to his son, smacks him on the head and says "Have you been mucking with the telly again?"
