God doesn't need to know what time it is.

The watch referenced in the link above has that estimated price because it’s a possibly unique Rolex of iconic design. Clapton’s ownership isn’t adding much to the price, after 20 years

Separately, but relatedly, the watch market has gone bananas in the last 24 months

Clapton does collect Patek Philippe watches, often built for him with customized dials (in great taste). These he sells from time to time, with the proceeds going to charitable causes. These pieces are expensive both because of the customized dials (one has to be a great customer for Patek to customize a dial, and so these variation are often unique) and because directly from Clapton’s collection - these customized Clapton pieces, eventually sold for charity, are a “thing” in their own right and have been for a long time

(Only a strict Marxist thinks anything has intrinsic value, so who cares how people spend their money?)

Just a comment from the peanut gallery….

@tomcy6 You didn’t read or understand my post.

For you to play this brain-dead, bully style of argument-making, badgering me about playing with famous people, or how many “blues festivals” 😂 I’ve played, it’s unseemly.

If I had 50 platinum records, this makes my opinion more valid?

Again, try to avoid brazen thinking fallacies in your argument.  Appeals to numbers ain’t gonna cut it.

You don’t know anything about me, how good I am, nothing.  You think only people with commercial success can have an opinion.  In a world of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and Justin Bieber…no, I don’t believe one’s commercial success gives their opinion more validity.  But good try.

@tylermunns You either don’t understand my question or don’t have an answer for it that you want to share. Either way, I think we’ve said all we need to say.

I will change the subject matter from "racism" and " conspiracy" and other problems which are way over our heads, because geopolitic and consciousness history is more complex than audio anyway, and audio is not understood in many audio thread, people arguing mainly about gear instead of thinking about acoustic and psycho-acoustic... I will change the subject matter to acousic/music and prime number theory with a riddle linked to Riemann Zeta problem and music... 😁😊😎😉 This is my facorite music piece...

This will mute those who see only ONE conspiracy everywhere and those who pretend that there is none anywhere....

«Each race being superior to all others by definition, racism is everywhere and nowhere like the center of the Pascal circle»-Groucho Marx explaining racism with geometry

The greatest guitarist of all time never played a guitar but a tanbur 😊: