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Quotes About Timepieces

How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
~ Wale
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don't need me.
~ Richard Mille
You gotta keep working, baby. You gotta work. I got kids, I got bills, I like nice things - always buying cars and watches. I'm a sneaker-head.
~ Jadakiss
I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.
~ Jason Statham
I like watches.
~ C. J. McCollum
I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.
~ Mark Teixeira
I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.
~ Bonnie Tyler
I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
~ Kevin Spacey
When it comes to watches, it's ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.
~ James May
I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch.
~ Jonathan Ive
I have always been a big fan of watches.
~ J Balvin
I sort of collect watches.
~ Ronald Koeman
For the most part, someone who is in love with mechanical watches is not going to decide to wear a smartwatch over a mechanical watch.
~ J. J. Redick
I love watches, the mechanism.
~ Gael Monfils
I think what I love most about the brand of Hublot - obviously the quality of watches speak for themselves - but the brand is always trying to get better.
~ Michael Clarke
I do like watches. I like the sophistication of it all. Like the whole thing behind collecting watches is very grown man-esque, so it makes me feel more an adult.
~ Austin Rivers
I really like watches and have about eight.
~ Stuart Broad
Growing up, I didn't know anyone that was a watch collector or into watches, but I was always kind of curious about them. Before the NBA Draft, I knew I was going to get drafted, and I wanted to commemorate that by buying a watch.
~ J. J. Redick
I would much rather invest in stocks, bonds, private equity and hedge funds than watches.
~ J. J. Redick
Guys only really have watches and cars as show pieces, and that's why so many men love their watches - it's our show piece, it's our style. And what I like especially about Hublot is the variety.
~ Michael Clarke
If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.
~ Ross Kemp
I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.
~ J. Cole