One watch collection

I have 6 watches that have been gifted over the years, only one isn't in use but obviously I need to keep it. I would possibly get a small watchbox for them and put it in a drawer/ cupboard in the bedroom. Remove and dispose of the batteries from any quartz and put notes under the pillows of the battery number.

Me?

I considered gifted watches as their own thing, not part of MY watch collection.

I considered watches best left for kids as toys.

That immediately pared my collection from 25 to 17.

Then I retired a quartz chronograph that still tells time but has a cracked crystal & broken chronograph. It was cheaper to get a new watch.

I gifted my beaten up G-Shock to my teen after he used his dead phone as an excuse to miss curfew.

I will never get down to a one watch collection, but using these technicalities & mental gymnastics to make my collection seem smaller than it is has been a godsend for my mental health.

The eye rolls from the wife are a NICE bonus.

Some of this comment is real. Some is just for laughs.

Good luck figuring out which is which. 🤣😉

My valiant efforts to pare down my watch collection resulted in a total reduction of their numbers from 16 to 30.

Inherited and gifted ones are not part of my collection as such, they're part of me. Same for a couple of sentimental ones. The rest form my 'collection' and even then I doubt I could get it down to just one. Maybe a dozen?

Either way, there's really no such thing as a one watch collection. It's just one watch.

Somehow this really helped me with the way I view my collection and my plans to get more watches lol. Especially the mental gymnastics around gift watches which I still cycle in the rotation even if they wouldn’t be my initial pick.

I love the watches I've been gifted and wear them semi-regularly. However, like you say, they weren't my pick. They are their own collection, not my collection. Although, if the wife decided I deserved a Speedy, I've dropped enough hints that it would be part of MY collection. LOL

Cheers & MTFBWY!

Agreed!

My wife got me a wooden watch from Jord, and while I wouldn’t have gotten out of my way to buy it myself it does have cool details like using wood for the case and tiger eye for the dial. It uses a Seiko quartz too so it’s been lasting for a while. It also features our names engraved on the back so I wear it to most weddings as my “wedding watch”

Although it’s getting competitive with some of the other dress peices I’ve gotten 😆

3 Watches in my collection at the moment, gifted and sentimental timepieces not included. I’ve thought about getting an AT and calling it off a few times. I believe it is possible.