Will I ever be a one watch guy?

[Samanator]

Three maybe, but one while possible has not been in play for over 35 years now.

[Rdenney]

I wasn't a one-watch guy even when I was a one-watch guy. I don't think I've ever owned fewer than three or four watches, even when I wasn't "into" watches.

20 years ago, I had a nice Seiko quartz watch (meaning: from a couple of feet away, it looks "nice"), a Swiss Army quartz watch on a NATOish sort of thing, and a Timex Ironman (for my professional timing activities). By ten years ago, I had upgraded the Timex to a Tissot T-Touch, and I bought (on a whim) a Poljot Sturmanskie at a time when I was collecting ex-Soviet photography equipment.

One watch? Nope. Even if I lose interest and divest the collection, I'll keep the better examples to provide some versatility in the collection. But I certainly have not lost interest.

But I travel all the time and often just take one watch. It might be any of several, depending on the activities of the trip and how I'll be dressed. Just as often, though, I take several watches.

Rick "who just bought a three-watch travel case" Denney

[Seriously]

but if I stayed off IWL it would subside.

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Elsewhere on this planet, I remember having a "wear it for a month" (or for as long as you could) like a touch the truck competition ..... maybe we should have one of those from a beginning of a month , wear the same single watch every day, until it hurts......
Who's up for it ?

[Nutty28]

I wasn't a one-watch guy even when I was a one-watch guy. I don't think I've ever owned fewer than three or four watches, even when I wasn't "into" watches.

20 years ago, I had a nice Seiko quartz watch (meaning: from a couple of feet away, it looks "nice"), a Swiss Army quartz watch on a NATOish sort of thing, and a Timex Ironman (for my professional timing activities). By ten years ago, I had upgraded the Timex to a Tissot T-Touch, and I bought (on a whim) a Poljot Sturmanskie at a time when I was collecting ex-Soviet photography equipment.

One watch? Nope. Even if I lose interest and divest the collection, I'll keep the better examples to provide some versatility in the collection. But I certainly have not lost interest.

Rick "who just bought a three-watch travel case" Denney

That went through my mind as I posted the thread couple of days back.

Before I started owning more than 1 watch, I wore the same for a good 7 - 8 years. And only when the first died on me did I then buy my second - as a replacement.

Now that I have varieties, it almost become difficult to just stick with one. What crossed my mind then, perhaps, now that we have options, what seems "logical and right" (owning only one watch) becomes unimaginable. That was one reason that triggered my thread.




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[Nutty28]

Hold him down


Elsewhere on this planet, I remember having a "wear it for a month" (or for as long as you could) like a touch the truck competition ..... maybe we should have one of those from a beginning of a month , wear the same single watch every day, until it hurts......
Who's up for it ?

I already did 11 days - did that count ??


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[geoffbot]

Hold him down


Elsewhere on this planet, I remember having a "wear it for a month" (or for as long as you could) like a touch the truck competition ..... maybe we should have one of those from a beginning of a month , wear the same single watch every day, until it hurts......
Who's up for it ?

Yeah man - go for it

[Der Amf]

Two people completed all of January 2014 with only one watch touching their wrist, with three others getting extremely close

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/one-...my-978601.html

[whatmeworry]

Don't think I could do a month. A week sure, but not a month

[Der Amf]

Don't think I could do a month. A week sure, but not a month

There are a couple of watches in my collection I would happily wear for a month if I had to, but by choice I personally wouldn't feel the appeal of the exercise sufficiently to enjoy it.

If someone wants to lend me a Glashutte Original PanoLunar for a month I'm quite prepared to eat my words

[Seriously]

Yeah man - go for it

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