Sound familiar… this is me
The habit will get better.
1st Year - 1 watch every 6-8 weeks
2nd Year - 1 per month
3rd Year - Promise to limit yourself to 1 per month. You won't. Tell your partner that you'll sell some. But you won't.
4th Year - 1 per week. Tell yourself you'll sell one watch for every one you buy. But you won't. Make sure you've always got your eye on at least 6 watches at any one time on ebay. If you don't buy one for a few weeks, reward yourself by getting 3 in one go. Spend at least 2hrs every day surfing the web for watches. Dream about them. Spend 10 minutes each morning deciding which one to wear. Get home from work and immediately change to a different watch. Fixate so hard on a watch you want that you can't think about anything else until you get it. Feel guilty because you've spent so much money on watches.
Buy another watch. You'll feel better then.
This is not my story. It's a friend of a friend I know.
I began the watch fascination in the 1960’s. I am a big fan of Seiko and Orient watches...I'm not a fan of the watch brand snobbery of the Swiss brands even though I own a Rolex and a Doxa, I just lik...
relatable. i need to go for WA (Watchaholic Anonymous) meetings soon.
That's very funny. You seem to know this friend pretty well. 😉
Do I know you? 😂
I can fully understand these statements!
I don't think I buy too often but there are definitely moments where I look back and in 3 months I had 3 new watches, so maybe I do
I only buy what I need. I am good that way. In the last year or two, there has been the Covid pandemic. It is reasonable, then, that my need has gone up. My wife has come to accept this and says, by way of support: 'look! Buy what you want, it's not up to me'. I am pretty sure that prices will go up, so buying a few watches now is better than being disappointed. Anyway, my friends don't know how many watches I have and nor does my wife. LIfe is too short. I am sure loads of people have collections of things. I won't buy more that two, today. We can always have the leak in the roof fixed in the summer.
Sounds like a classic case of watch buying addiction, complete with accelerated progression. As a fellow sufferer, I got so bad I was having to convince myself to limit purchases to one watch every other day! 🤣 I finally managed to get it under control, but everyday is a struggle. I was a week clean until I found a 1986 digital Seiko for $60 on eBay yesterday and couldn't help myself.
not only do I buy too many watches, some I have bought several times after sellers regret, and I just don't learn. One success story was the Seiko Alpinist the Sarb017, I bought and sold it twice till on the third time I realised i liked it and its been with me for four years. Another was the Citizen Ecozilla, three times I've had it and three times sold as its ridiculously big, same with the Bulova Moon. I've started a book now with all the watches I buy and sell with dimensions, price paid, and thoughts.. including comments such as " This is the second time you've bought this watch, it doesn't fit, it never will do not buy it again"
4th year... Omg you are inside my head! Especially with the hard watch fixation 😬 Watching every YouTube video (often multiple times), searching all the watch forums for any small reference to the watch, doing Google image searches for all possible wrist shots...
Have you been spying on me, or did my wife put you up to this to watch-shame me?
relatable. i need to go for WA (Watchaholic Anonymous) meetings soon.
It’s not anonymous if you’re posting about it on a public website. ;)
Reading this thread leads me to one thought: there needs to be a 12 step program for watch buying addiction. I could buy a watch with a 12 hour bezel to keep track of the steps. Every time I complete a step I could reward myself with a watch. By the time I get through 12 steps I'll have a dozen more new watches to play with. I think this could really work out well. 🙄
And I thought I was the only one……….. I think I feel better now😁