That’s so funny I’ve totally been looking at this specific watch recently online, part of an overall search for a blue dial, blue bezel quartz diver btw 37-39mm. I feel like the price is high for a quartz watch so I’ve been looking used but they don’t seem to be under $800 very often. Another option has been the Seiko Solar diver 38mm in blue or the Hamilton 37mm khaki navy but I haven’t been able to try one on to see if I’d like it or not.

Great collection - lots of different styles and colors and really high quality watches, congrats!

what size spring bars did you try? 19 or 20mm?

I have the black and gold carbon Metric, and wouldn't mind giving that a try!

My two cents : that's a great, manageable collection you have there. You have classy, sporty, tool-y - all the categories and you have different colors, sizes etc...It's a great collection!

This is just from my experience, but take a 1-2 month break, and wear the heck out of all your watches in all sorts of situations. Unsubscribe from all watch websites just for a bit and settle into what you have. This is coming from someone who regrets the spur of the moment watch purchases I've made for watches that simply don't get time on the wrist and pull money away from watches that I would actually really wear a lot.

It's helpful to see which ones you really WANT to wear, vs the ones you feel like you 'have' to wear in order to not feel guilty for buying it. My guess is that will help with direction and then if you want you can sell the ones that really don't vibe with you.

Again, just my two cents, but be cautious about buying a more expensive watch because once you spend more than $1000 on a watch, the experience of that can be so different that it makes it hard to go back to $300 watches. And man, $1000 + watches will %100 break your bank for something you don't actually need. Let alone something in the territory of Omega, Tudor, Rolex etc...! If that's your direction, save save save save your money.

In the meantime take your time and enjoy that amazing collection!

Ha! I hear you! At least there's zero branding on the watch dial except for barely seen coffee bean. I live in the Bay Area and at this point I'm used to the $8 coffee but it could be worse.....now, where did I put my artisan Polynesian beard brush...hmmmm

That is an excellent question...it has been a bit up and down but I'm getting used to it now. A little bit of a hair puller at first and I couldn't quite get the perfect fit. I have it now where I think it will be cool, albeit a tiny bit tight when my wrists swell. After experiencing my Christopher Ward Sealander bracelet everything else seems to pale in comparison unfortunately, but the quick release on the Brew bracelet is pretty solid, def better than Vaer's. One down side is that there's a weird size for the lugs - just under 20mm. Very odd.

First off, I think it's a little slice of awesome that you wear your explorer drumming - amazing, first rate watches, that can handle that kind of shock AND mechanical - that's the shizz for sure. I was warned early on here on Watch Crunch by well intentioned members, that wearing a hand wound or automatic watch while drumming or near electronic music equipment was a big no no. So I moved on to thinking mostly about quartz.

Secondly, I have always wondering how watches fared for drummers when everyone wore them all over the world. Especially as jazz moved into early r&b and early rock and on and on - did drummers in the 60's and 70's - pre-quartz - just have to get their watches repaired all the time or.....did they stand up to it?

I have literally watched videos of Steve Gadd play with a watch on a VERY loose bracelet play over and over again, and I think he's wearing a rolex, but I could be wrong. It's a funny topic - how have jobs that have a lot of shocked based movement affected watches over the years - might be a question for a watch maker!

And lastly - I am at some point going to get a Formex Essence 39 with its suspension case thingerbob. I reached out to the company and asked them directly what they thought of their watches and drumming and they were pretty confident!