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Q: How did you get into watch collecting?
I used to walk past jewellers windows and stare at the watches longingly. One day I went in and talked to a salesperson about a Maurice Lacroix in the window. It was a Grand Guichet Masterpiece collection model and was (at the time) a whopping $4250. I had just recently finished University and didn’t have a lot of money, but the salesperson suggested I lay by it. So I did - I spent 4 months going in every week and making a payment - until I finally collected it. From that moment I was hooked. I was more of an enthusiast than a collector for many years - but I have always had the bug. That Maurice Lacroix is still in my collection, and while the brand seems to get a bit of hate - I genuinely love it.
Q: What was the first watch you ever owned?
My uncle gave me his old Oris when I was 7. My mum wouldn’t let me wear it till I was 12, but then I wore it all through high school and beyond.
Q: Do you have a watch with a particularly interesting story behind it?
I have my dads old watch tgat his mum gave to him when he was 13. It’s a Nivada Grenchen. I discovered it at his house one day in a terrible state. I got it restored and presented it back to him for his 70th birthday. Now that he has passed, it’s one of my most treasured possessions. Not a particularly interesting story - but a personally important one to me.
Q: What is one piece of advice you have for someone just getting into watches?
Take your time. It’s not a race to the end. But pieces you like and can afford - and enjoy them. They may stick around forever or you may trade them on, but the memories you have involving them will become the most important thing.
Q: What brands have been getting your attention lately?
Tudor - beyond the marketing they are just great value high quality watches. IWC - rich heritage and watches that are becoming even more relevant and desirable Jaeger LeCoultre - massively underrated with an amazing catalogue. They really deserve far more attention Blancpain - not for their well known dive watches, but instead for their dress watches - I am becoming more enamoured with the dress watch genre and with smaller watches GS - they are just getting better and better. I can see them becoming reluctant benchmarks in the future.
Q: What is your grail watch and why?
Patek Philippe Calatrava. Simple, elegant, and with an exemplary heritage. Just a bit outside attainability for me personally, it’s a perfect grail.
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