Make out, Marry, or Move on
Well, not sure how many of us make out with our watches. But it's probably not zero. The Marry or Move ethos kind of summarizes my thinking however.
I’ve got an algorithm that runs through my head every time I look over my collection
It’s not fun and not recommended so be warned, reading further might infect you.
Basically, looking over my watches I’m immediately categorizing as follows:
Keep forever - and when I’m gone wife and daughter better like diving watches since they’re never allowed to sell either 🥰
You're safe 😘
2. Might sell sometime. - this broad spectrum category covers everything from ‘I want it gone yesterday’ to ‘might sell sometime, or perhaps never’.
Currently on the auction block 😕
Scratchy McScratchFace me really shouldn't wear any watch I might someday try to sell, right?
The result of this watch caste system is it relegates all watches in category 2 (maybe 1/2 my 10 watch collection!) to a sad life in the velvet prison, complete with individual velvety solitary confinement:
Any other better ways you all think about this?
Until you're sure it's going, do you still wear it with reckless abandon? Wondering if I alone am saddled with this goofy way of analyzing.
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With a sensible head on I think it's a good idea. I have similar thoughts myself. I definitely wear watches from my collection that aren't my favourites. I think that does two things.
To me wearing is different to looking. I usually enjoy the watch again when I'm using it for some unexplained reason. Comfort, accuracy, complications, even wierdly seeing it from different angles and enjoying the strap/bracelet.
It makes me enjoy my favourites even more if the above fails!
I know I have too many watches but favourites or not they do all get wrist time at some point. They also all sleep well in their cozy boxes or cases knowing that their crazy owner is not going to part with any of them.
Enjoy your dilemma!
Haha, I do the same 👻
Sadly, I’m on the same boat…and only a handful of watches do get wrist time and other are inside the velvety prison…
And I still want to ge t more watches… it s sickness really lol..
The old marry, date, maybe. Marry, their the keepers. Date, well every now and again,and dates can be fun. And maybe,maybe I want to see someone about my sanity for buying such rubbish(seemed like a good idea at the time) and maybe's should definitely go. Sometimes though I'm in the mood for a maybe (I really do need to see someone) even if just to remind myself I've got the disease bad,and some of the maybes are let's say 'interesting'. Yours is a better system, mines too complex and too blurry to make the damn decision to get rid.
Sadly, I’m on the same boat…and only a handful of watches do get wrist time and other are inside the velvety prison…
And I still want to ge t more watches… it s sickness really lol..
OMG me too. I fall in love with one I see, purchase it get it home, then hmmm oh well the velvet prison it is till I find the right mood to wear it.. lol
This is pretty much how I think. Things need to graduate from the dating tier to the married tier, and tenure pretty much is the only way to get there.
Hitched
Long Term Dating
Just Dating
Sadly, I’m on the same boat…and only a handful of watches do get wrist time and other are inside the velvety prison…
And I still want to ge t more watches… it s sickness really lol..
A sickness we all share and that separates us from the muggles. Mr. Bunz, your expanding group is replete with watches I myself want. Allowing me to vicariously feel excitement. So keep doing you, it makes me happy 😀
The old marry, date, maybe. Marry, their the keepers. Date, well every now and again,and dates can be fun. And maybe,maybe I want to see someone about my sanity for buying such rubbish(seemed like a good idea at the time) and maybe's should definitely go. Sometimes though I'm in the mood for a maybe (I really do need to see someone) even if just to remind myself I've got the disease bad,and some of the maybes are let's say 'interesting'. Yours is a better system, mines too complex and too blurry to make the damn decision to get rid.
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I like your tinder based approach - really playing the field and carrying around a briefcase of contraception.
Such free spirited and non serious approach I think has it's merits as well 😉
A sickness we all share and that separates us from the muggles. Mr. Bunz, your expanding group is replete with watches I myself want. Allowing me to vicariously feel excitement. So keep doing you, it makes me happy 😀
Amen Brother lol!!
This is pretty much how I think. Things need to graduate from the dating tier to the married tier, and tenure pretty much is the only way to get there.
Hitched
Long Term Dating
Just Dating
I think we should create a “one Night Stander”…
Hmmmm which watch should I put in that category …hmmm… like “pump and dump” 😂
I think we should create a “one Night Stander”…
Hmmmm which watch should I put in that category …hmmm… like “pump and dump” 😂
Given the financialization of watches, "pump and dump" has a different meaning I suspect 🤣
I do agree though. Sometimes you buy a watch just to see how it works with your collection. I tend to do this when I can't see it in stores like with JDM Seikos.
OMG me too. I fall in love with one I see, purchase it get it home, then hmmm oh well the velvet prison it is till I find the right mood to wear it.. lol
There's definitely a mood aspect!
The rare occasions or moods that call for a certain look. It's a good case for keeping some of the rarely worn stuff.
The Rado I'm selling now (mostly since it's yet another no date watch of mine, and no date watches drive me nuts at work) is one I've worn on the rare occasion I want to uncork my nightclub look 😎 (I haven't been to a nightclub in 20 years) as the polished black ceramic and gold trim have a baller sort of vibe IMO.
Totally! The moment I realize that I'm not going to keep a watch forever, and I want to sell it, then I stop wearing it completely! But, at that point, I then immediately sell it. It's like dating someone... for me, it was always once you determine that you don't see a long-term future, why keep dating?
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I like your tinder based approach - really playing the field and carrying around a briefcase of contraception.
Such free spirited and non serious approach I think has it's merits as well 😉
A briefcase full of contraception, that's priceless. Sorry that's another I've got to steal for my repertoire, I'll do my best to drop it in as many conversations as I can this week, brilliant.
Totally! The moment I realize that I'm not going to keep a watch forever, and I want to sell it, then I stop wearing it completely! But, at that point, I then immediately sell it. It's like dating someone... for me, it was always once you determine that you don't see a long-term future, why keep dating?
Cuz they are hot 😉!
Caveman brain me once dated someone I didn’t really like for about 3 years owing to that particular motivation. 😂
This is pretty much how I think. Things need to graduate from the dating tier to the married tier, and tenure pretty much is the only way to get there.
Hitched
Long Term Dating
Just Dating
Your married pool is too heavy with supermodels. Shift that ocean going GMT up a group or 2 for bit of balance. Life (and the force) need balance.
And that Rolex Day Date 🤯🤑😮, dam 🦫! It’s mind blowing. All gold - with diamonds?!? I’d be afraid to touch it, let alone wear 😂
Your married pool is too heavy with supermodels. Shift that ocean going GMT up a group or 2 for bit of balance. Life (and the force) need balance.
And that Rolex Day Date 🤯🤑😮, dam 🦫! It’s mind blowing. All gold - with diamonds?!? I’d be afraid to touch it, let alone wear 😂
Love is love man!
The Day date lives in an all expenses paid bank vault. I never wear it but it was my dad's so it can never be sold. It's a truly ridiculous watch.
Every watch I buy is subject to trial. If a watch makes it through the gauntlet of filters into my hands. It's still open season!
Watches I thought I would never sell a year ago are on the chopping block. But that's why I always save everything they come with. So when a watch goes out of favor It's an easy sale. Quality always sells!
With most things I collect, there's high end and there's the stuff that will be timeless no matter what. The value doesn't drive my interest, It just seems to follow it!
Interesting post and lots of good comments.
I imagine myself walking down a dark alley and getting mugged with the watch in question. If I'm willing to let it go without any negative feelings then it is in the (moved on category). If I had to let it go but unwillingly then it is (make out category). If I'm willing to fight this homeless person and probably get stabbed for a watch then it is my wife.
If every watch you own is in the unwilling to let go category and you still need to sell one to buy a new watch. You my friend are a watch Romeo. You just enjoy the feeling of flirting with the idea of a new watch and acquiring it. I blame the watch box manufacturers. Why did they make a 30-slot watch box?!?! This isn't Pokemon and you don't need to catch them all.
Interesting post and lots of good comments.
I imagine myself walking down a dark alley and getting mugged with the watch in question. If I'm willing to let it go without any negative feelings then it is in the (moved on category). If I had to let it go but unwillingly then it is (make out category). If I'm willing to fight this homeless person and probably get stabbed for a watch then it is my wife.
If every watch you own is in the unwilling to let go category and you still need to sell one to buy a new watch. You my friend are a watch Romeo. You just enjoy the feeling of flirting with the idea of a new watch and acquiring it. I blame the watch box manufacturers. Why did they make a 30-slot watch box?!?! This isn't Pokemon and you don't need to catch them all.
Brilliant analysis!
Framed in the ‘will I put up with getting stabbed to save it’ paradigm, yes, I think I can move out a good 3 or 4 of my ~ 10 watches collection
I guess like most, at heart I’m still a shameless flirt. if economics permitted there’d be a whole bunch of full 30 slot watchboxes and new additions need not be stab-worthy to stay with me ☺. Ah, the dream…