subject: Luxury Watch As A Gift? [print this page] Buying an expensive gift for someone is always a great idea in theory but with a bigger expenditure comes a bigger amount of risk. If something as personal and pricey as a luxury watch is what you are thinking about buying then a lot of factors come into play. Personal taste, as in your's verses the gift's recipient's, can be incredibly subjective and hard to pinpoint. You may be tempted to go flashy where your recipient would prefer you to go subtle, you may want to go classic where the recipient would prefer something a lot more modern. When thousands of dollars are at play in a gift giving situation you are going to want to be careful.
The one saving grace of luxury watch gifting is of course that a well known brand and a good looking watch will likely always impress. While the person you are buying for may not fall instantly in love with the particular Hublot watch you purchased, they will be able to immediately recognize the implicit value in the brand name as well as the decades of history and quality workmanship associated with that particular brand name. Those associations could take a slight taste difference and immediately eradicate it. That said if the person in question is something of an expert on what makes a fine watch you may want to pay closer attention to his or her brand preferences. An Audemars Piguet watch and Patek Philippe watch may be equal in your eyes but to a man or woman who favors or has pined for either would see get the wrong one as a disappointment.
Buying large gifts is always a huge risk. Did I spend too much? Did I go too far? What does such a huge present say about me and my relationship to this person? The trick of all of this is the big risk could and most likely will have a huge pay off in gratitude and appreciation.
If you are going to buy a luxury watch for a loved one as a gift be aware of what they are like and what they like. Think about how each piece would look with their favorite outfits and think about how much they like certain materials or things from a particular era. No matter what you do remember that it truly is the thought that counts and buying a gift with this sort of class and permanence is definitely a beautiful thought. If they can not appreciate that you might want to get the watch back.
