Keeper SOTC
So my collection of watches changes constantly and this means that I could make an SOTC post every month and you’d be able to see a difference in it, and this is manikyr because I’m still learning what it is I like in regards to watches, and because of this I thought it might be more interesting (and less annoying for the WC community) to post about the keepers in my collection. First off what are they; well the top row
are my British divers: Farer Leven II Titanium, Smiths PRS60 Commander and my Clemence Photic Diver. I am a huge fan of dive watches and as a British/Swedish dual citizen I wanted to make sure I’ve got at least one British watch in my collection.
In the second row we have
LeJour Rally Monte-Carlo, 125th Anniversary Certina DS80 Powermatic and the 38mm Titanium Khaki Field Automatic. As I get more into this hobby I’m finding myself more drawn to the Swiss made watches. The Certina is the one watch I will definitely never sell as it was a 30 year birthday gift from my wife. I got the LeJour because I really wanted an automatic chronograph and this is my favourite so far and I really like Hamilton Field Watches and titanium, so this purchase was inevitable.
Bottom row is:
Vilhelm Prism Smoked Blue dial, Echo/Neutra Averau 39 Big Moon and the G-Shock GST-B400D-1AER. So this is my international row. The Vilhelm comes from Singapore, the Echo/Neutra from Italy and obviously the Casio from Japan. I have no reason why these are on here other than I think they look really cool, and I think that’s all I need.
Now as I said previously the only watch I’m definitely not getting rid of is the Certina, so the rest here might go it would just take a lot for me to part with them. Also this isn’t complete I need to add a Swedish watch which might be my Tusenö Windseeker
Or the Malm J29 Tunnan
I’ll just have to test them out.
Sorry for the long rambling post and thanks if you’ve got this far. How does everyone else feel about keepers, do you have any or are all your watches replaceable? Have you had similar issues with learning by buying? It’s not something I’d recommend as even when you only buy from the affordable or mid tier ranges the costs add up and watches rarely increase in value.
Based in Stockholm Sweden, always been interested in watches recently began taking a special interest in more independent watch brands.
Really cool collection with variations on color, dials, and functionality.
Really cool collection with variations on color, dials, and functionality.
Thanks mate.
This to me is a collection of someone who actually cares about history. Especially the smiths is a bold and excellent choice. They were under that same Tissot /Sears/ Smiths Brand and they actually invented the first non-metal watch movement that saved swatch brand to exist today amazing story about the Tissot Autolub and the fact that Tissot was on the chopping block and essentially all of Swatches are made of plastic movements is incredible to think that Tissot saved them and they saved Tissot.
This to me is a collection of someone who actually cares about history. Especially the smiths is a bold and excellent choice. They were under that same Tissot /Sears/ Smiths Brand and they actually invented the first non-metal watch movement that saved swatch brand to exist today amazing story about the Tissot Autolub and the fact that Tissot was on the chopping block and essentially all of Swatches are made of plastic movements is incredible to think that Tissot saved them and they saved Tissot.
Tanks. I actually wasn’t aware about the link between Smiths and Tissot. The history that drew me to the Smiths was the story about how the Smiths Everest was actually the watch that Sir Edmund Hillary wore when he ascended Everest not Rolex. I do enjoy learning about the history of watches so thank you for that information.