Quote Originally Posted by funcrusher View Post
I'll take the other side. Nothing wrong with "spoiling" a good kid. I disagree with the sentiments about buying oneself or getting as a gift from parents. I bot my first Rolex when I was 22. I flipped it into a different one a couple of years later and sold that one too. I can guarantee that if my old man had the means to buy me one it would still be on my wrist today.

I plan to let both my boys pick a watch from my collection when they graduate from college. And I hope they will pass them forward to their kids. I know heirlooms are a different conversation but heirlooms have to start somewhere. Why not start with a gift to your well deserving son??
Because helicopters parents of old have turned into a worse version today known as snowplow parents who do everything for their kids and then these same kids have no coping skills when things get difficult. And as the OP already suggested, odds are the kid is going to make significantly more income than his parents so he could easily afford it for himself.

***** this is not a statement about the OP but rather a generalized statement about society (which make not make it any better).