Several months ago, I had the chance to wear my first ever fancy watch. My choices came down to a Cartier Tank and luxury replica Hublot Big Bang Tutti Frutti watches.
I was tempted by the Tutti Frutti, but also repelled by it. I probably don’t need to explain, but I will.
The bezel is made up of pink baguette-cut sapphires, separated at intervals of six by perfect US Hublot fake watches’ signature titanium screws. It’s like 48 hopeful fairy princesses playing ring-around-the-rosy with six princes who are all in bad moods. The strap is pink lizard, bolstered by pink rubber, Hublot’s signature, their pride and joy. Hublot is a watch company half of whose reason for being is rubber straps. Some people think this irreverence is cool, or at the very least harmless fun. Others treat it like a rip in the very fabric of society.
Where the Tank demanded respect, the Tutti Frutti demanded jokes. Ha ha, I see they finally made a watch out of Paris Hilton’s chihuahua collar. Ha ha, did you win your cheap replica Hublot watches as a prize in one of those arcade claw machines? Ha ha, I think you need to see a doctor – I’m not worried about you, I’m worried about that poor flamingo you’ve tied around your wrist!
So I picked the Cartier. What can I say, its rectangular case and off-white dial with its black Roman numeral indices and golden bracelet made me feel like Jackie Kennedy rolling into the Carlyle for a gin and tonic, a cobb salad, and a cigarette. Nevertheless, I would find myself dreaming of the Tutti Frutti. So the thing was somewhat ridiculous. So am I.
In due time my Cartier test-drive concluded and I was left with my utilitarian hand-wound Luch. We were then joined by my Omega Deville, which, though not as expensive as the Cartier, was also ladylike, and polite to the point of near invisibility.
I craved drama, audacity bordering on hideousness. I wanted to feel something when I looked at my wrist. I wasn’t sure what, but I knew I wanted it to be more than “Is that all there is?”
Was it too late for me and the pink best Hublot copy watches? And what would it be like to wear something that tacky?
It was not. And I was about to find out.
Whether it arrives in an armored van with guards or is carelessly left in the mailbox, there is always the thrill of “a new friend has arrived” when a watch comes. In this case, the delivery man appeared to be unarmed, which is good because my red heeler Ruthie barked and barked at him. “She would never hurt anyone,” I said as I simultaneously signed for the package and fought her off with my right foot. “She’s actually a very sweet girl.” The delivery man smiled as if to say, “Sure she is” or “Literally who cares.”
There were so many layers to get to the Swiss made Hublot replica watches: A medium FedEx bag, a smaller bag inside that bag, then an envelope, and then finally, wrapped in bubble wrap with a piece of sticky cellophane over the case, “my” new watch, sporty from some angles, glamorous, then girly, from others. In all but the brightest light the ceramic black hole of the face swallowed up the steel hands so that sometimes I had to tilt it to get the time.
I reset it. The seconds hand didn’t move. I saw that there were other things on the watch face. From my trip to the Patek Philippe Museum, I guessed that these were complications: A running seconds subdial located at 3 o’clock, a 12-hour subdial located at 6 o’clock, a 30-minute subdial located at 9 o’clock. I would worry about those once I got the seconds hand moving.
I googled “get second hand to move.” A website told me to turn my wrist like I was swirling a glass of wine. I swirled my wrist, and admired the way you had to catch the right angle to see the semi-skeletonized stainless-steel hands against the black ceramic face to actually tell the time. But the seconds hand did nothing. I pressed the top right button gingerly, half-expecting the thing to explode. Happily, the seconds hand started, along with the seconds subdial and presumably the others, which, respectively, are useful to time transcontinental airplane flights and Seinfeld episodes, but perhaps not much else.
I went to get coffee with a friend. “Look at the rhinestones on that thing,” she said.
“They’re not rhinestones,” I said. “They’re sapphires.” Had she heard of tutti-frutti ice cream, which had lots of nuts and colorful fruit in it? She had. Had she heard of tutti frutti-style jewelry, an orientalist trend that employed the use of many colorful gemstones? She had not.
“Pretty,” she said dubiously.
We ran into another friend.
“Sarah has a new watch,” the first friend said. “It’s a Tutti Frutti. It’s named after ice cream and – jewelry.”
The second friend, who never takes off his Submariner, took a look at my watch, squinted, and said, “Well, I don’t know what this watch is for, but I can tell you what it’s not for. Telling time!”
I had watched a video about the 1:1 fake Hublot Tutti Frutti watches from a jeweler that had sold them. The watch, the presenter had said, “defied easy reading.” I thought this was perhaps a more generous way to describe it. Getting the right light to see the hands gives you an excuse to show off the sapphires to advantage every time you look at the watch, I said.
“Either way,” my friend replied, “I like to look at a watch and tell the time. I’m a simple guy.”
When my boyfriend got home, he took one look at it and said, “I thought you were only wearing expensive watches now.”
“This is like a $20,000 watch,” I huffed. “I mean it’s less because it’s secondhand, but it’s an expensive watch. It’s a Hublot.”
“New blow? What’s an old blow?”
“Hublot,” I said. I spelled it. I explained that Hublot was a watch company started in 1980 as an antidote to the stuffiness and relative sameness of brands like Patek and Rolex. AAA Hublot super clone watches, I continued – watches that have been rapped about by Jay-Z himself –were characterized by their mixture of materials (ceramic, gold, silver, rubber, leather), plus visible screws and, in this case, vibrant gemstones and pink lizard.
“Pink lizards!” He snorted. “Now I’ve heard everything.”
Such responses seemed to be the general consensus. I could delve into the details, but basically people seemed to think the watch was a little impulse buy that I picked up at Nordstrom Rack.
Far from making me like the Hublot replica watches for sale less, these insults only made me like it more. And my enthusiasm for this Tutti Frutti was not merely contrarian. Most of it stemmed from the fact that I liked the weight of it on my wrist, and the masculine solidity of the clasp and how the pink strap was thick and hearty like filet mignon but also sweet and bright like strawberry shortcake.
Anyone who underestimated or mocked this watch did not know what a pleasure it was to live with it. Whether I was dressed up, merely dressed, or lying around like a slob, the Hublot fake watches shop site always worked. It seemed to intuitively sense whether to exude sportiness or general luxuriousness. And I know this is not just a Hublot thing, but I love having a self-winding watch and will never again accept a substitute.
The more I heard “wow is that ugly, wow don’t you feel weird wearing that, wow is that like a promotional watch for Lady Gaga Oreos,” the more I thought of the phrase “Pearls before swine.” If I had a Rolex, everyone would love it, including me. But the fact that I loved this watch rather by myself made the relationship sweeter and more poignant.
“It’s almost as if you feel about your watch the same way you feel about Ruthie,” my boyfriend said.
My replica Hublot watches wholesale needed to go someplace where it, and my love for it, felt safe and appreciated. Fortunately, I only live about two hours from the San Francisco Hublot store.
As I entered the shop I remembered the first time I was here, about a year ago, on my very first luxury-watch foray. The cool pearl-gray carpet was the same, the watches were just as big and shiny and aggressively metallic, vigorously luxurious, but my attitude toward them had changed. Back then I had not understood 2022 Hublot fake watches at all, I thought they were silly and self-important – and I still thought this, except now I liked that about them.
The salesman remembered me from last year. He had never seen a Tutti Frutti before and he was delighted, truly thrilled, to finally behold one. Naturally, I was very proud of myself that I was the one to show him this treasure, I who had entered this store knowing nothing and now stood here knowing next to nothing. We admired it together, its twinkling jewels, its authoritative shape, the way that just by existing it assured that the overused word “girlboss” would never die. His admiration filled my heart with a pride that I am unashamed to say bordered on sentimental.
When the best quality replica Hublot Big Bang watches was introduced in 2005, its brazen combination of titanium, ceramic, and rubber was an instant hit. The Tutti Frutti followed in 2008, though it wasn’t officially called by this name until 2010. A sort of flamboyant cousin to Big Bang, the Tutti Frutti came in colors like pink, green, orange, and blue, mostly with steel or ceramic cases, with the occasional one in rose gold. This was the mini-era of leggings with everything, peplum jackets, and the Herve Leger bandage dress. The Tutti Frutti fit right in. But like these other trends, it could not last forever, and Hublot phased it out after just a few years.
Thanks to visiting the store, I now understood that a Tutti Frutti was just a Big Bang, Hublot’s signature watch, wearing its aughts costume. While I was there I tried on Swiss best fake Hublot Big Bang Unico watches that was similar to my watch proportion-wise, but in its bezel were round diamonds, the pushers were round, and the strap grayish-black suede. Also, it had an in-house movement, whereas my Tutti Frutti’s movement was ETA, a good-enough but certainly not notable movement. I said they should re-issue the Tutti Frutti with an in-house movement, a suggestion met with much enthusiasm. I realized that I had said my first actual insidery nerdy watch thing ever, about a year to the very first day I’d started on my watch journey.
I met a friend for a drink. I was already wearing a pink blazer, pinkish lavender boots and pink lucite earrings I had bought to go with my Hublot replica watches paypal, and now I ordered a glass of rosé to complete the picture. “Wow, you’re really getting into watches,” my friend said. “Did you buy that thing?” I replied that it was a loan. “What a relief,” he said.
“Well,” I snapped back, “It isn’t a relief to me!”