Show us your high-end SOTC
hi guys!
I’ve seen many nice hi-end watches everyday on WRUW. I know that there are many high-end collectors, “the big fish” and here is why I love this community, you big fish are so humble. Many of you are simple watch lovers, you don’t try to show off and flex your expensive watches at us, many of you commented nice things about our cheap watches too.
Today I need some hi-end candies, please share us your collections, you are not showing off, I asked for it. Please share with us how you save up for them!
Don’t mind me if I tag some of you 🤣 @JaeBust @TheHoroSexual @Adi365 @kernit @eliamathias @one.five.ohh @Justingalore @HotWatchChick69
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Thanks for the shout-out.
Thank you for the mention, kind Sir! 🥂🍾
I‘m surprised to be mentioned here but I take it 😉 Thanks man!
I guess my Breguet is high-end but the most special piece in my collection is certainly my double branded (Asprey) Vacheron Constantin…
I‘m surprised to be mentioned here but I take it 😉 Thanks man!
I guess my Breguet is high-end but the most special piece in my collection is certainly my double branded (Asprey) Vacheron Constantin…
Such beauty, thanks for sharing!
i know there are many big fish here, please share don’t be shy!
I fear you may think me a bigger fish than I actually am! But anyway here are my Pateks..
Not the full collection but something to see
Thank you for mentioning me bro!
Here are some of them
I think Mel @ChronoGuy & Per @YourIntruder deserve a shoutout too 🧐😁😇
Rodeen @rodeenski and many others! 🤩🤔
🙏🏼 Thanks for the mention. Yes, I'm all over the place these days. Feel free to roast that Hublot, I can take it. 😅
Oh, if anyone has any leads on the old MDM straps, do please let me know. The system they had was, well, mental. Here's what the dealer kit looked like for them:
Rodeen @rodeenski and many others! 🤩🤔
Thanks for the mention Bro. Cannot compare with you guys tho. 😂
Gotta love Siri’s answers 😂
🙏🏼 Thanks for the mention. Yes, I'm all over the place these days. Feel free to roast that Hublot, I can take it. 😅
Oh wow first Armin Strom I've seen here! I like the equal force gravity you have - good 'value' if I can say that. I was about to pull the trigger on their constant force resonance, but something about how WIDE it wears and the plain dial turned me off as it has a big price tag.
I thought you were needed here for the speedy king: Snoopy! But also have breitlings rolexes and cartiers! Nice! Your super power seems to be a wifey who thinks these are great buys as well.
Now that I think about it, I guess they are smart buys since you've paid retail and they go up rather than down in value!
Hmmm.. Makes me a feel slightly less clever about about my love for 'something different'! 🤔
You're still too kind, thanks for the kind words! 😊
And without a doubt my wife is the greatest 🥰 I'd be half the man I am without her, maybe less, and I'm fortunate enough that we're so compatible that we both enjoy partaking in and engaging with each others hobbies and passions. It's a lot of $ for sure, and no we don't buy these things because they retain their values or anything - we just both think they're stunning little things and they bring us joy - so we plan around it all and figure out ways to make things happen as a couple! 👍
I love your collection. Iconic masterpieces.
Thank you my friend. Ditto! I see we share some gems👍
Here’s mine, perpetual calendars SOTC:
On a random tangent... Is it just me who finds the big fish/little fish terminology a bit weird?
I have never considered any members more or less important because of their collections. 🤔
But if that's the case, it would be...
Jaebust on the left out of shot about to eat that big leviathan lol
That is hilarious! 😂
Spice 🌶️
Here’s mine, perpetual calendars SOTC:
Awesome
Awesome
Thanks! just want to add that we all start somewhere. Doesn’t matter if one’s a small or big or whatever fish! Just got to enjoy this hobby. My first watch was quartz - A Timex. My first mechanical was a Tissot PR100. Today I still enjoy microbrands and “cheap” watches very much.
OK - I'll show some of mine...
ChronoGuy | WatchCrunch
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Jeez! What a collection!
How did you amass all that, do you chrono24? 😂
My gallery so far, stay tuned for daily rollout! 🤷🏽♂️😉🤭
https://www.watchcrunch.com/JaeBust/gallery
You have a problem!
Where do you store them all? 😂
Jeez! What a collection!
How did you amass all that, do you chrono24? 😂
Thanks for your kind words!
Years of hard graft...😉
And yes, I occasionally purchase from Chrono24.
I really like Catawiki for vintage NOS watches from lesser known Swiss, French and German brands.
I have an Armin Strom as well, though mine is their current “entry level”.
Still a beauty!
Here is my collection...
Here is how I saved up enough to waste so much money on this man-jewelry...
Grew up a poor, first generation kid from China, where my parents' families had everything taken from them by Mao
Spent my entire life pathologically afraid of spending a single dime
Ate ramen every meal, drank tap water, never went out even when friends were enjoying their lives, bought the store brand ketchup for $2.50 even when I knew that the Heinz at $5.00 was 10x tastier
Sock all that extra money away into the S&P500, preparing for the inevitable financial disaster... Actually, it's not even as though my thinking were that complex. "Preparing for financial disaster" would imply that my cerebral cortex were involved. It wasn't. No thinking part of my brain participated. It was simply my amygdala / my lizard brain driving all this instinctive fear response
Wake up one day, check my brokerage statement, and realize, "Oh, wow, if you don't spend a single dime and you sock away all that cash into a low-cost index fund, like the S&P 500, which compounds at a historical rate of 10.7% (since inception)... when you near the age of 50, you have a lot saved up!"
You know, there are all the other caveats too, right? Like, you also need...
Work ethic
A good education
A high paying job
Don't do drugs
Don't get divorced
Don't gamble
But, to my mind, that all makes it sound like it's intentional. For me, it wasn't and it isn't. My guess is that I just happened to be born with a certain set of genes that compel me to behave in a certain way, that in this particular idiosyncratic moment in time, happens to generate enough resources to enable me to spend on shiny, irrelevant trinkets.
Beyond that, all those things might be necessary, but insufficient conditions! That is, I can imagine one tiny change, and I would have 10x what I have today, or a different change, and I would have 1/10th what I have today. I would say those things are 10% of it, and the other 90% is just plain, dumb luck.
Buy and hold equities, the way for 99.9% of the population to build wealth.
You have a problem!
Where do you store them all? 😂
Two huge winder cabinets with watch drawers in the bedroom and watch boxes in my home office. Boxes and papers are in the store room next to the gym! 😜
My one big piece I guess is my moser streamlined chrono. It’s just gorgeous
Beautiful watches all.