HAS YOUR TASTE CHANGED AS YOU'VE GOTTEN OLDER?

I would say it definitely changed. I had a Tagheuer 2000 prof, Tag Kirium, and my omega Seamaster 200 prebond prior to actually getting into the hobby.

I was enamored by chronographs as I’m very much a gearhead car nut. Chronographs were the intersection of both my love for cars and my new budding interest in watches.

This then marks my first year into the rabbit hole of watches and Ive already shifted from chronographs to divers to simple time only watches.

I can’t forget my dads words to me a few months ago, where he told me i only like chronographs now as I’m new to this hobby but sooner or later I’d shift to simpler watches 😅😅😅

1000%

In little over 5 years, I drastically reduced the size & weight of the watches that I chase. Also gave up trying to chase a “grail”. But that’s the exciting part, 5 more years who knows what’ll change. ✌️

My taste has evolved to wearing leather watch bands. I used to be exclusively bracelet because leather was for “old timers” or dress watches but found myself selling watches because they were uncomfortable even though they were decent watches.

Yes

As I've got older & eyes are deteriorating legibility has become far more important.

Plus as we age our disposable income increases so stuff I use as beaters would have been grail's to me 20 years ago.

Also my body can't take the abuse it one did doing various sports so my watches don't have to either - I can't see any circumstances where I'd need a G-Shock nowadays,but pretty much lived with one on my wrist for at least 10 years..

Literally every day.

My taste has evolved to more expensive watches 😅

Yes. More vintage, gold, sub-34mm watches from obscure brands. More pocket watches. More Swiss watches.

Fewer hyped modern watches especially divers, field watches and GADA steel watches.

Yeah weirdly I've been drawn to gold vintage watches like the old Seiko's and Citizen. I always thought gold was just for old man watches. I'm only 35 but maybe I'm becoming an old man a little early lol

Mine changed a bit. Younger, with the exception of maybe the F91, I disliked Casio, but changed around my 20s. I also didn't like some dressier watches, but have begun to enjoy a few of those more. I've also come to like dive watches more too.

I think it's being exposed to things and learning about stuff that can alter our tastes.

Totally!! from only divers, chronos and field watches to lnclude Gada and dress watches too.

My tastes have changed along with style changes. Sizes, shapes and colors are far different than when I recieved my first watch in the 70's. My 34mm watches seem out of place today and I prefer 38mm to 40mm now. As pointed out above being older has allowed me to wear better watches than I used to. Legibility has become just as important. Simpler, less cluttered dials are what I enjoy now. Fleiger watches, and watches with contrasting colors amongst the hands, dial and second hand bring more enjoyment. At this point a Speedmaster is not my thing and I'd easily choose the Railmaster. So yes, tastes change. Embrace it!

30 years ago I bought my first mid-century watch. It is what I still buy. I have wandered around, but I always come back to my long held preferences.

Yep!🙄

I aged less than a year and went full circle from sports watches to vintage dress watches. I'm never looking back.

Yes. Was heavily into dress watches. Have transitioned to sport watches. I’m now obsessed with gold tone watches. Still looking for the perfect one.

I already preferred dress watches (gold tone, moon phase) as a teenager. Re-bought a watch last year I already had 20 years ago. I'd say my taste at 50 has diversified, but still leaning on the dressy side of things.

Not even slightly. I love the big tacky watches of my childhood in the early 70s. I loved them then, and I love them now 50 years later.

Bracelets usually hurt my skin. Whenever I try and wear one I end up taking it off in my sleep, and then I have to find it.

I would say that I have become more focused in that I now know better what I like and don’t like in aesthetics, dimensions, materials, mechanicals, etc.

But that’s only through the experience of handing and trying a large number of watches.

Be too boring to set it all out but a good example is champagne dials. I loved the look of them and they always drew me in but once I got one I realized that are absolutely not for me. I still admire them and think they look great but I do now know that they are not something that I would wear. It was also a great lesson along the lines of “beware of meeting your heroes” as something you have much admired may not be all that you hoped for.

Down the road I could see my tastes evolving and therefore changing but I expect it to be a gradual process.

my tastes have changed a bit, but I find I'm a bit of a traditionalist so despite collecting for 40+ years I mostly have similar taste. In fact the only pieces i don't wear are ones where I haven't scrutinized how that watch is gonna look in 20 years from now... Timeless looks are best for me...

Absolutely. I wouldn't have gone near a precious metal or dress watch 5 years ago, let alone 10.

Bicolor watches are starting to look good... I am getting old.

Abaolutely a change process. I think not with the age but with years of experience about watches. Look (especially dial but also case type and bracelet design), size (36-39mm is my sweet spot with around 43-47mm lug to lug) and tradition of the brand with high quality specs is my biggest target now. Before I was also wearing a 46mm diver from Gucci or any kind of genre. Now my collection totally shifted towards my lifestyle which are sporty dress watches or should I say elegant sportswatches, you know the gada talk around ATs and OPs.

The first watch I ever bought was a crystal (or glass, realistically) set gigantic “chronograph” from River Island. Then I had a couple of relatively large Seikos. Now my largest watch is 40mm and while it fits me well, I keep looking at it and thinking “we could get teenier”.

💯

I exclusively only eye dress watches, hate bracelets, dive bezels, black dials and superb sharp hour and minute hands

It sounds like your dad was talking to me too without knowing it

O yeeeeeaaa,never wear my swatches of my youth.Would wear current ones either.dive watches rule the roost now