"The poor play with cars and the rich play with watches" means that the poor like to buy cars and the really rich like to buy watches. This sentence originated from European and American countries and needs to be understood in combination with European and American cultures.

The poor and the rich in the west are not what we understand. The poor and the rich in the west refer to the level of status, not the simple wealth. Poverty generally refers to the nouveau riche, and wealth refers to the nobility.

The more upper-class people, the more they like to consume things with low practical value and low cost performance. The higher the practical value of what you buy, the more cost-effective, so if you are not upper class, the less rich you are. The practical value of cars is much higher than that of watches. The cost performance of cars is also much higher than that of watches. So there is a saying that the poor play with cars and the rich play with watches.

The consumption views of the poor and the rich in the west

In the west, it is very effective for nouveau riche to play with cars, but it is of little use to nobles, because the main activity place of nobles is indoors, attending various high-end scenes, rather than driving around the road to kill time.

Everyone shows off. For aristocrats, what car you drive in this high-end social occasion, no one cares and no one can see it. What you can see is not only your demeanor, but also the watches on men's wrists and the jewelry worn by women.

Many nobles don't know what kind of car they own, because cars are really not their concern compared with their own assets. The care of the car is mainly contracted by several drivers. In fact, the choice of the car is very simple, that is, follow the example of the Queen, what the Queen rides, and match a similar car as appropriate.