JONATHAN
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Is WatchCrunch the Zodiac Killer?
Ok, so I'm just starting out on this thing thanks to the mention on Ben's Watch Club and I'm checking all my favorite watch brands, working my way dow...
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Mine's not a collection, it's an addiction. I heard WatchCrunch had a 12-step program 😀. I just started "collecting" about 7 months ago and I'm already up to 50+ watches, mostly Timex archive and co-labs (Todd Snyders), vintage-style Bulovas, a couple of Brews, some G-Shocks, a Unimatic, a Tissot Gentleman... Two things I have learned so far:
- Nobody cares about your fucking watch. I obsess about which watch to wear and what people's reactions will be, but nobody even notices. Like when you get your haircut and the next day at work no one says a word.
- If you don't absolutely LOVE your new watch, get rid of it. If the next day at work you find your productivity dropping by 50% because you just can't stop glancing at your wrist, that's when you know you've made the right decision. Yes, the watch you're considering may have gotten great reviews on all the YT sites, and yes it hand-winds and hacks, and has a sapphire crystal and at least 200M water resistance and is Swiss-made and has an in-house caliber and was worn by Jean-Claude Van Damme and... if you can't wait to wear it, hold it, wind it, hear it tick or click, then sell it.
- BTW, what's the best way to "de-accession" unloved watches? eBay? Reddit?
The only time I wore a watch to bed was to keep a Seiko Recraft (with the infernal NON-HANDWINDABLE 7S26 movement) going so I wouldn't have to keep resetting it. Turns out I didn't toss and turn enough so it stopped sometime in the middle of the night.