BER ist noch nicht fertig, aber schon gibt es einen neuen Nutzungsplan für FRA

Ganz aktuell zum WM Finale bietet die Stadt Esslingen Menschen mit dem Messie Syndrom Hilfe an:
http://www.esslinger-zeitung.de/lokal/esslingen/kreisesslingen/Artikel1191236.cfm

Passt zwar nicht ganz hier rein, ist aber schön zu lesen: Why I've never understood the appeal of a posh watch

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However, distasteful though all this, I’m still a businessman. I’m constantly looking for new opportunities and I really don’t think we’ve reached “peak watch” yet. So, I’m thinking of setting up a Kickstarter to produce a new timepiece. It will be called, naturally, the Proud Chronograph (see: ridiculous and pompous but entirely plausible) and it will be a watch to end all watches. Watch historians of the future will hail me as the man whose visionary genius ended the watch arms race.

Of course the Proud Chronograph will have many of the qualities one looks for in a luxury watch. It will be the size of a life-preserver and made of some silly metal that in is inferior to steel in every sense except its price tag; it will weigh in a 14lbs and it will have numerous, pointless dials and be studded with diamonds; it will be perpetual and self winding, using the energy from a well-known back-and-forth wrist motion. It will cost over a million pounds and you will need to be nominated and seconded by existing Proud Chronograph owners before you are allowed to apply for “the privilege of custodianship” or some similar dreadful, gimmicky twaddle.

But in the middle of the face will be the USP, the key watch differentiator. This will be an LCD panel – and it will display your bank balance.

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Den "Gegenartikel" findet man dann hier: An expensive watch is money well spent

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It is exactly the same story with watches. By spending more, you might not get a watch that tells the time any better, but you will get something that has had many, many hours of research, design and painstaking work to make it as good a piece as it can be. Finely made mechanical watches are ingeniously made little – and, yes, sometimes not so little – machines on your wrist that you buy for no good reason other than you are fascinated by them and the amazing little living, moving parts inside them

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