Hi...my name is ChronoGuy...and I'm an enabler...
So I was chatting with one of my colleagues and fellow member of the watch crew today...
He wanted to see my new Knot Raden (he is fascinated by all things Japanese...having been born there to American parents and having worked there part of his career)...
He was sporting a gorgeous vintage 1970s Eastern European beauty that I had identified for him a couple of years ago that he purchased from the most excellent Julian Kampmann (https://www.poljot24.de/)...
Now this friend had a couple of watches before I infected him with the disease, and my daily wrist checks often created in him an insatiable desire to add more watches to the collection.
He sheepishly told me today that he now has more than 220 watches...I still remember a couple of years ago when he brought his whole collection over to my house...at that time it was four watchboxes...let's say about forty watches...
I saw another one of my colleagues today, also member of the watch crew, and he was enthusiastically extolling the virtues of the yellow dial Seestern (Doxa Sub300 homage) that I loaned him...I told him he could take it in the water when we was kayaking or surfing...and he did. He was really stoked...so stoked that when I told him Jomashop was having a sale on Doxas...he purchased another Doxa Sub300 today (he already has the orange dial which he had to purchase after I loaned him mine)...he picked up the one with the dark blue dial (Caribbean...I think).
These are just two of the examples...the watch crew is getting larger and it usually starts with a conversation about watches...recommendations of modest entry points such as a Casio Duro or an Orient Bambino...then spirals out from there.
So are you an enabler? If so, you can join my support group...
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I really like chronographs especially vintage ones.
My application is on its way!! 🥳
I have a tradition of giving a free watch to anyone who works in my office. Nothing fancy, cheap analog watches for those that don't wear watches or wear smart watches. I also wear a different watch to work every day.
One day a colleague (now a friend) asked if I could change a battery for his Fossil so I did and brought it back the next day, I just happen to wear a Citizen that day and he loved the look of it that he bought it off my wrist. He has since bought 3 more watches from my collection and is planning to buy at least one more.
I think I have turned him into a collector, 😆.
Proudly...yes!
Admittedly, yes. Recently pushed a buddy into a Seiko diver a few months ago and just got a text last night asking “is the Speedmaster a good pick up?”
Last year an office mate had a Shinola and a couple of Wengers. This year he has two Speedmasters and a Datejust. I am more of an accelerant than an enabler.
You are the good version of Covid! Infect away! I impart my love and enthusiasm for watches to whomever cares, which most of the time is rare. As long as you have anything on your wrist that remotely measures time, a conversation can be had! 🤙❤️
I enable stupidly expensive bikes AND watches - I’m with you friend 🤝
Your buddy - 220 watches?? 🤯😳 It sounds more dealer than collector. wealthy and single? I think that’d be the ideal go nuts scenario.
Don’t tell him about crunch or he’ll be up to 1000s with us whispering in his ear 😂
I enable stupidly expensive bikes AND watches - I’m with you friend 🤝
Your buddy - 220 watches?? 🤯😳 It sounds more dealer than collector. wealthy and single? I think that’d be the ideal go nuts scenario.
Don’t tell him about crunch or he’ll be up to 1000s with us whispering in his ear 😂
He is well off but not wealthy...and he is now married (almost a year now) and expecting.
My guess is the watch purchasing will be deferred for a while 😉