Ideal Collection Size

I'd have to vote option  S or T if I'm being honest 🙄

I answered D, but I have to ask where is the answer with 100+ watches? 😂

I’m into intentionality and think the amount revolves mostly around it. 

Nothing wrong with cheating yourself and just start a second collection 😆

I really wish you could do a poll with more than 4 options. I wanted more granularity for the smaller collection, but you‘re right that I didn’t really capture the big upper end of the spectrum

Never thought of it, I just have multiple three watch collections and not one 60 watch collection! Thanks! 🤝

The number depends on whether you collect grails or beaters.  All of mine are in the beater price category, so I don't fret about adding another Seiko 5 to the collection.

Not my watch collection btw.

Not having more than 3 watches is my life's ambition!! 

Think I'll stop at 100,honest

I'm good with 10, for now. We'll see if I can get stupid spending moneyif I want to go on an orgy of watch buying. 

Starts eyeing up Crunchers who looks like they don't need the extra kidneys 😉

I think to myself all the time, "that's it no more watches for this year and next year I'm going to curb my spending."   

Then there's a new watch release that I'm captivated by and I know...........

I lost count at 35…

A variety would be nice. It’s kind of what makes a collection. 
I only became one (or realised I was one) when I bought two watches on eBay in a year, after seeing one in YouTube watch videos (that I had stumbled into by accident) and deciding I would kind of maybe like that one, but couldn’t really justify the purchase — because I already had a watch that worked. In fact, I had just got a G-Shock for the first time ever, and so had two working watches on the go.

Then I got a watch box, after rummaging around and finding all my older watches that I had stopped wearing for one reason or another. Put them next to watches I was keeping safe as a memory of people I had lost. (And had put a new strap on one years previous — because a thing should be a thing, rather than losing its function) 

Suddenly, I realised I had possibly always been a collector in a way, without thinking about it. Which ironically made people around me realise the same thing — drawers were checked as they remembered their old watches and wondered if they still worked. 
 

Now even my wife has a watch box, because she was in a similar state, both of us with watches we had been given as gifts (often by each other) or ones we had bought to match each other (we do daft couple stuff like that) and suddenly — we are collectors.

(same story with little one, but in that case it’s because so many family members are trying to find that one watch that will be worn and the time told on — I put them all in a display fashion. Boom, another collector.)

So how many?

Loads if they aren’t breaking the bank, and we like or find a need for a specific one at a specific time. Some for the sake of memory. Some because the previous one broke. (That will change now I am faster to change peoples batteries and straps admittedly.) 

So I went for the fifteen plus box. Because one day my descendants will need options damnit.

IMHO, somewhere around the ten or twelve mark, the practical spectrum gets covered and the marginal utility starts to be negated by the hassle of the extra upkeep. You start forgetting you even own certain watches. Of course I'm more of a wearer than a collector. A themed collection (redundant) has a natural limit.

I'd love one perfect watch. 

Good looks, comfort, durability and features. 

I keep idealizing 1, but to be realistic, I doubt I'll ever be less than 3 or 4.

2 that were gifts + 1 or 2 rotating for "play"

I want to be a “small but intentional collector” but I’m already up to a dozen and can’t seem to bring myself to actually sell any to consolidate! I have a few candidates on the chopping block…maybe I’ll make it my 2023 resolution 😂

I try to keep it on the lower side so all of the watches got some wrist time. But there are a lot of watches I'd like to own one time in the future out there. So there will be some tough decisions to make. 

But I think the main difference is whether you're a collector or more of some sort of watch-lover who likes to have several watches. 

I have a list of 30 watches that I always had pretty much most of my life. It my dream collection and I'm sticking to it.

You got it🤘😉

If we do it with chocolate there’s absolutely no reason, not do it with watches.

I'd like to get my collection down to 3 I can really focus on, but it's hard to get below 6. 

I’m working on a 12+1 collection. Nice variety from all different brands that I admire and respect that cover a several situations and activities. 
That being said, I can put together a 3-watch and even a 6-8 watch collection. 
 

The ideal collection size is N + 1, with N being watches. 

I have over 100 and I'm still not satisfied.. there's always something new out there that I just can't live without. Or something that wasn't on my radar and all of a sudden I had to have it.

I have 15, but I think I'll start reducing and get down to nine.  I think nine will end up being the right number for me.

as stated above: n+1 is correct number for a collection, where n is your current number of watches. 😃

The answer is as many as you want. Not as many as someone else wants.

I like to get wrist time. When I can’t/don’t/won’t  get wrist time with a watch, it needs to go. The number is self-limiting by my taste and use case, and because of that I am trying to go as high end as I can afford/justify. 
 

Right now my low time watches aren’t worth much and thus aren’t worth flipping. I assume as I go up in price, the no wrist time watches will be obvious must sell items.