Non-funny wiseass would be more expensive

[nancylebov]

A $300,000 watch? Luxury. A $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time — and that sells out? Pure genius.

The watch has two tourbillons, includes metal from the Titanic, and only indicates day and night.

Best comment: I disagree with some of the sceptical comments here. I think this is a very useful watch. If I was a multi-millionaire with my head up my butt, I wouldn’t know day from night.

The website for the watch is probably the most pretentious website I've ever seen.

A failed effort to find out whether it's a hoax turned this up.

Link thanks to Marginal Revolution.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

The rich can afford their jokes too. In fact, they can afford to spend a lot more on them.

I think this is just the equivalent of a Pet Rock, for people who don't mind tossing away six-figure amounts.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

A failed effort to find out whether it's a hoax turned this up.
That's essentially the plot of one of the episodes in "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" except that involved rice not tapioca.

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

The "tourbillons" link doesn't work, for me anyway. On my friends page it tries to go to http://captain-button.livejournal.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourbillon and from the individual listing I'm commenting from it tries to go to http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourbillon . Neither works. Weird.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know. I neglected to include "http://wwww.", and instead of telling me, livejournal invented links.

[madfilkentist]

I don't think LiveJournal "invents" links. Most likely what happened is that some people's browsers didn't see a well-formed URL, so they turned it into a Google search with the "I'm feeling lucky" option. If I just type "Tourbillon" into the address field in Firefox, I get directed to the Wikipedia article.

[darius.livejournal.com]

Not quite -- if you leave out the 'http:' prefix, it's still a well-formed link in standard HTML, it's just relative to the current page.