I think my watch cost about 80 to 100 bucks. I can't remember exactly. It was a Christmas gift from my wife. It's nice enough, but it isn't ridiculously fancy or anything, and I don't consider it to be a piece of jewelry at all. Nthing I wear is ornamental. It all means something, otherwise why the hell wear it? I have a watch, I have my wedding ring, and occasionally I wear my other rings (my father's pinky ring, which I got when he passed away, and a ring that my mother bought me on a trip, which reminds me of her... I also had one that used to be my sister's - it was pretty masculine - but I lost that one). I wear a tarnished gold cross on a silver necklace pretty much always (I really never take it off), and that's because it was given to me by my parents when I graduated from high school. Neither of my tattoos are strictly ornamental either, one of which depicts a cross that my dad bought for me in New Orleans when we went there which was later stolen from me, and the other which depicts various ideas sourcing out from the representation of a pocket watch my mother gave me one valentine's day.
I hate ornamentation for the sake of ornamentation. It's one of the reasons I can't stand many cultures that just do things for the sake of style or whatever. I hate rappers, rockers, emo kids, guys that wish they were in GQ, whatever. I'm used to it with a lot of stuff (being a metalhead I obviously have to put up with tons of that), but it still pisses me off.
