Browsing Topic Best Timepieces Quotes

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes. By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much – so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins – without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

I don’t care about the past.

How did her life live itself without her.

If I have a weakness, it’s for timepieces – if I see one I like and can afford it, I’ll buy it.

And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don’t really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they’re able.

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It’s as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there’s something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.