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Mar 27, 2015, 12:39 AM
#21
Q: How you mentally make sense of your collection?
A: I don't. I've just surrendered to the dark side, and let it take me where it will.
~Sherry.
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Mar 27, 2015, 12:47 AM
#22
So...in theory...it might be an Ebel
La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.
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Mar 27, 2015, 12:57 AM
#23
I used to adhere to the "buy a good watch if it's a good deal and I like the way it looks" rule. I then found I had 150 watches, way too many. Consolidation came and I had a bunch of goodies including Bretling, GS, Omega, Ball and others. I was working towards what I called my "perfect 12", beater, better and best in four categories including dressy, chronograph, dive style and all rounders.
I gave that up when I found my GO and am now looking at a perfect 8 watch collection with a beater and the best I can afford in each category, above. I have two categories covered and am still looking for my "best" in the chronograph and all rounder categories.
That's how I make sense of mine....at this moment anyway.
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Mar 27, 2015, 01:16 AM
#24
The counter has stopped
DA poses 2 questions and I have 1 answer: Not & Not.
There is no way any of us can rationalize her or his collection. Smartphone will tell time and a cheap (~$10) Quartz watch will do the same. Much cheaper than our "prized" mechanical time-pieces. So from that point of view .....
But then hobbies are irrational: we spend too much time and money on stuff we don't need. Just because we can and because it gives us pleasure. That's about it.
I do (eventually) wear all my watches, the top-dogs no less than the cheap ones and regardless of age. Depending on my activities, I may swap to a smaller and cheaper piece.
Makes sense?
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Mar 27, 2015, 01:26 AM
#25
Bone Collector
I'm on the train, and can't get off..but I did buy a ticket
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Mar 27, 2015, 06:57 AM
#26
Originally Posted by
popoki nui
Q: How you mentally make sense of your collection?
A: I don't. I've just surrendered to the dark side, and let it take me where it will.
~Sherry.
Obviously one of the reasons I have for having a clear structured approach to my watches is that I *like* having a blah blah blah
And the root of this urge was finding whenever I had more than ten watches I intended to wear that I would be bothered by not giving all of them enough attention.
So for me it's not like I perceive the idea of having four dozen watches as something tempting but naughty and so be resisted as a moral thing. More, for me, that by keeping numbers down, I maximise my pleasure.
I'm a little jealous of people who contentedly have fistfuls of watches some of which they wear a lot, some of which only come round once a blue moon
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Mar 27, 2015, 07:01 AM
#27
Originally Posted by
OhDark30
I just need to get a grip :-)
Realistically, I've worn the Strela uninterrupted for several months
While it is nice to discover on unearthing my collection that I have some very cool other watches, I don't actually *need* any others
I think I *want* to keep a few more though
The irony is, I've got into full-blown minimalism on the rest of my stuff. I've had a mega clearout, ditching over 80% of what I own, and feel much happier and lighter without it. (I used Marie Kondo's method)
So, I'm sorting the watches now, now that I've got the mental and actual space to do it
I think watch collecting is a simple pleasure, and I still love discussing design, history and mechanics
But now I no longer need many of the physical watches to bring them to mind - photos recall many of my highlights.
Your relationship with the watches you own, the boundaries you place on what you perceive as your collection, reminds me of a tidal estuary - sometimes just running through the central core, sometimes expanded to the full width of the valley, and constantly on the move from one to the other
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Mar 27, 2015, 07:27 AM
#28
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I've pretty much rationalized my collection like this. In my head, it all makes sense to me too.
1. Daily wearers - 2
2. Formal - 1
3. Dive - 1
4. Beater - 1
5. Chronographs (special category) - 3
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Mar 27, 2015, 08:05 AM
#29
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The words 'sense' and 'watch collection' don't belong in any sentence that I could understand.
Three '50s & '60s Omegas- For those days when I'm in a Don Draper kind'a mood.
One early 1960s Tudor- For that Foreign Office vibe.
One mid-'70s Tudor Prince OysterDate- 'Cos I don't have a Rolex DateJust...yet.
A '50s-'60s Lanco hand-wound- Because it's got a real 'Pre-Castro Cuba' look and feel to it. To me, anyway.
A Sinn 103 St Sa Chronograph- 'Cos I feel like a late '70s German counter-terrorist when I wear it. All that's missing is a MPK-5, mein Herr. I'm wearing it as I write this. Today is Freitag! (If you get a German brand wristwatch and they give you the option of an English or German day wheel, get the German one. Authenticity counts.)
An Omega Seamaster Professional, Omega Planet Ocean, Rolex Submariner 5513- 'Cos Bond wore them.
An Omega AquaTerra- 'Cos it's the modern equivalent to those vintage pieces.
An Omega Railmaster- 'Cos it kicks major @$$!
An Omega Seamaster 300- 'Cos it ain't a Rolex Submariner and can never be mistaken for one.
A 44mm Hamilton Khaki Officer's Mechanical- 'Cos on my school-girly 6.5 inch wrist, it makes me look like an action figure (batteries sold separately).
Two Seiko automatic dive watches- So that I don't trash my pricier watches. Although, I do cringe whenever I scratch the Seikos.
A quartz TAG Heuer Formula 1- Everybody needs one quartz watch in their collection.
An Omega Speedmaster Professional- 'Cos I had the opportunity to choose a watch for free when I was in the industry and decided to go for the brass ring. What the hell.
I learned long ago that I was the kind of collector who could justify any watch to himself. Sad, but true.
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Mar 27, 2015, 08:07 AM
#30
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Originally Posted by
Bwana
I'm on the train, and can't get off..but I did buy a ticket
I'm in the next carriage. Throwing up over how much time, trouble and money I've spent on this 'hobby' over the years. However, as my wife has said at times; "At least you didn't shoot the money up your arm."
I suppose that's something.
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