Dial colour variety in a collection, do you care?

The most common dial colour I have is black followed by blue but Ilike a bit of variety.

However, I’d say sticking to what you like is most sensible as it will save you from making too many buying regrets.

Buy what you like and if you have a nagging feeling, try it out to see if you like it or not.

I do that. And my taste is to consider the design as a whole, but also I NEED COLOURS!

Full steel with a black dial is the epitome of a GADAW for me, but I've found out it gets boring adter a while. I like to wear something colourful now and then and straps can't fully satisfy it. So now I've got fine white grain and black lacquer for neutral colours, dark green lacquer for lively elegance and coarse gold grain for excentric occasions.

Black digital with a blue face and a white digital with a black face almost complete it. I'm only missing yellow, red, or pink/purple/fuchsia, and then I'd be set for colours.

But of course the watches are considered as a whole, with case material, surface finish and treatment.

Mostly black, but got a green Willard and a True Pogue. Generally monochromatic tastes tho.

If there were only black watches I would never have started collecting.

Even before I became a longtime architect working quite small projects in my own practice, I considered myself to be an individual with taste and appreciation for design and colour. My dad lectured on the integrity of perfect white long sleeve shirts, charcoal grey suits and trousers. I admit that I experience difficulty reading comments from members who often suggest more dial colours when critiquing SOTC posts. I understand that it is great to have a number of watches arranged in some presentation box with interesting dial colours but most folks will not wear more than one watch at any time, for me a watch is a single object that I will slip on to tell the time, in most instances my watch will have a black, white, silvered or outrageously a blue dial. I remain not opposed to some wacky fun dial as long as the watch is worthy.

I’m between B and C. I definitely have color variation as an intention within the collection. But if I don’t like a color on a watch I wouldn’t buy it just to ‘color balance’ the collection.

A and C are basically the same answer. If you're buying what you like (A), surely it comes down to what each individual watch looks like (C), in order to... you know... like it?

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I am surprised there isn't an option to say that colour variety is important to me, because in my case it is. I have dials in black, white, silver, grey, red, orange, burnt orange, green, yellow, purple, bronze, brown, and blue. I have 32 watches, and can't even imagine how boring it would be if they were all the same colour

I rarely have a stark white dial, only one comes to mind. I have a few that are cream or off-white, like linen, but a straight white dial are very rare piece in my box of hundreds of watches.

I like colors. I knew the color wheel before I knew what ROYGBIV was. I have the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and two-thirds of the secondary colors (orange, green, violet/purple). Right now I'm low-key searching for a nice purple watch and slightly worried that my yellow watch is quartz so I wear it less because of my present fixation on mechanical/automatic watches. I've branched into pastel colors like pink and turquoise™ and I'm looking for others.

Bottom line, it's your collection so let it be what you want it to be!

With the exception of two black dials everything else is different. Black/silver/blue/gold/green in a small collection trying to maximize, I didn’t really set out to do this nor did I try hard to avoid it. I’ve had collections with many black dials in the past and I found that it led me to choice paralysis. It was way harder to decide which watch to wear that day. Having only a few watches now makes it way easier, depending on the clothing I’ve chosen for the day it’s an easy choice for the contrasting or coordinating watch. The inverse is true too if I choose the watch first. Variety is the spice of life!

Mostly black, a few blue, one pink, one crème, one silver, no white. Just happened that way it happened. I’m partial to blue. I’d like a blue DJ, Alpinist, Aqua Terra teak.

I almost only wear black/gray or white/beige dial so I save myself these worries haha

I guess with option B I meant that 😂

If left to my own devices I would only have blue dialed watches. I do aim for variety but the spectrum of colours I like is extremely narrow. Blue sky is a blue (already accounted for), a black (already accounted for), a white/silver (possibly already accounted for) and a green. And a brown maybe.

Color, textures and different materials for me.

Here's a few boxes from my watch Cellar.

I actually wear dials that match my top be it tshirt or shirt. And have the pandas and black dials for those days when I need a functionality of an certain watch because I cant get all watch categories in all dial colors😂

So actually yes, I do care greatly about the dial color and the actual tone/shade of the color.

I recently realized I have 3 blue dials of my 12 watch collection, though I have 5 black dials (3 are G-shocks). Looking at new buys, I am trying my best not to like blue dials even though the predominant color in my wardrobe and my car is blue. Totally conflicted.