J.A. Henckels rules

I just picked this beauty up today. Well-balanced, sharper than sin, and the blade just sings on the sharpening steel. I'm a self-taught home-gourmet, and having great knives makes the stuff that Jean-Louis Palladin and Andre Soltner pull off just a little more attainable at home.

Is paying this much for a knife a terribly yuppie-scum thing to do? Yeah, it is, so sue me. Hey, at least I don't own an SUV.