The feelings

I've been looking into buying another chronograph, not for this but the next year and that has drawn me to my one and only Chrono on my current collection.

I remember the first time I saw this. "it's ugly" I said, "why a brown bezel and what is up with that baby blue dial" such a naive little bastard lol.

I bought this in back April, right before summer vacation, maybe that's the reason it hasn't had enough wrist time, and then a couple of months later I got another watch, that might be another reason hahahaha.

Sometimes I feel I'm going too fast, that I broke the only promise I made to myself all those years ago... A watch per year, I said, I think that was only true for that one year I said it lol. I'm not an impulse buyer, my watch budget is merely set by my "watch savings", so that account is always empty, but I sometimes feel like I am an impulse buyer, the idea of something new gets in my head and I can't shake it off. I'm already looking into 2 different watches, one that is merely a new addition (The Chrono) and one that is set to be replacing an existing piece (The first time I'll be doing that).

I've comed to realize that with time and growth the change is inevitable, when I first started collecting you wouldn't have caught me dead buying a black watch, my latest piece is black on black and my next is too, I remember that when I first started collecting I said to my dad "Big and heavy, that's how I want my watches", my watches have gotten thinner and thinner, lighter and lighter with each new acquisition. It's kind of beautiful if you really think about it, I was a different person then, I wasn't even a man yet and now I'm a couple of months away of being a doctor. With time and age is obvious the person will change, in my past years I was more focused on "War" (Used metaphorically of course) and now I'm more focused on "Peace" and I think that really reflects on my choice of watches. I'm peaceful now. I'm at peace now, and, this might sound a little corny and cringey but without this hobby, without watches and the self reflection and thought one must put into his own tastes and lifestyle in order to buy another watch that goes well with themselves, this, my personal growth, would not have been possible. I am who I am now because of this and I love it.

I love my watches, but, only because they remind me of myself and that, my friends, that's a beautiful thing.

Have a good day and thank you for reading.