How many watches rarely/never receive wear?

[ken_sturrock]

Unfortunately, yes. I regularly wear about five out of 13 watches. The others I make an effort to keep in the rotation. Back when I regularly wore suits and did more formal stuff - I wore the others more often.

I'm too lazy and sentimental to get rid of the unworn though.

[Colin]

Old, small, pocket, and/or broken (obviously) stuff just sits and I'm cool with that. It's this 44mm one that perplexes me:





I still like the watch... it's the 44mm I don't enjoy. I'm I big guy and can pull it off:



But I just don't wear it very much.

I should sell it. But it isn't worth very much so I should keep it. But that's silly if I don't wear it. But it was my second mechanical. But I little extra cash for Xmas would be nice. But...

Uh oh... the voices... they're back...

[Mediocre]

Old, small, pocket, and/or broken (obviously) stuff just sits and I'm cool with that. It's this 44mm one that perplexes me:





I still like the watch... it's the 44mm I don't enjoy. I'm I big guy and can pull it off:



But I just don't wear it very much.

I should sell it. But it isn't worth very much so I should keep it. But that's silly if I don't wear it. But it was my second mechanical. But I little extra cash for Xmas would be nice. But...

Uh oh... the voices... they're back...

To make the decision easy for you, you can just give it to me

[Mew88]

I am circumspect about using this 1970s Geneve, Omega is running low on spare parts for this watch

[mikeylacroix]

Need to find a bracelet for it...

[Michael]

I have an Orient Bambino I don't really wear. Great watch, but I managed to scratch the crystal quite deeply and no amount of Polywatch can get rid of it. The scratch is incredibly distracting. I also have a Seiko SKX001 and the Debaufre Ocean 1 which have been sitting in my drawer unworn for a year or two. I'm not really a fan of Seiko or homages* these days.

*Although I do own a Steinhart Ocean One Vintage, which I feel gets a pass because I'm not going to own a 6200 Sub any time soon.

[rfortson]

Other than "drawer watches"* all of them are in rotation except my beater but it still gets fairly regular wear, just usually for a few hours at a time.

* drawer watches is my term for those watches that reside in some dark corner of a drawer, in my case mainly quartz beaters with dead batteries that I just can't bear to throw away

Yep, this exactly. I have churned my collection recently trying to pare it down, but wound up buying others. However, I now wear pretty much everything at least once a month so I feel like they are all getting the love they deserve. I've taken to occasionally switching watches during the day on weekends or evenings to mix things up.

EDIT - okay, I just remembered my EcoDrives. I have two, one was a wedding present from my wife (with my input) and the other was a first anniversary gift from her. I rarely wear either but I'll keep the wedding watch for sure. I may sell the anniversary watch (she's not sentimental at all and has told me to sell it if I want), but I figure I'll hold on to it for now. I did have a culling of the cheap herd earlier in the fall. Sold lots of cheap watches just to clear them out.

[Mediocre]

Interesting reading some of the responses. I have gifted some of mine away also

[zaskar36]

My Gshocks over the past year have been getting neglected. Never have the urge to wear them when all my auto divers are staring at me.

[Mediocre]

My Gshocks over the past year have been getting neglected. Never have the urge to wear them when all my auto divers are staring at me.

Interesting. My G-Shock (my only one) receives more regular wear than most.....often in 1-3 hour increments, but they are regular lol