Everyday Watch with large collection

My watch routines have changed over time. I used to wear one watch.  Then one watch during the week and then another on weekends. Then I wore a less dressy one or a more dressy one depending on my activities and who I would be interacting with and others on weekends.

For the last year or so I have kept a quartz field watch with a silicone strap on my nightstand. I wear it in the mornings when I am making coffee and walking the dog. I wear a different watch to work everyday, usually mechanical, gold if I am going to court.  When I get home at night I switch into a beater for the rest of the day. On weekends I wear the divers or beaters.

I don't have a favorite.  I have a top five, but that varies. I use the Gallery and WRUW to remind myself what I am ignoring. If I ignore a watch because I don't appreciate it anymore I give it away.

Great routine and would love to see pictures of your dog.  What is the breed?  

When I was going to the office, I would try to wear something different every day, but now working from home, I'm the only one who appreciates it, which I guess is the equivalent of playing with your matchbox cars or G.I. Joes as a kid alone in your bedroom.  lol

Treeing Walker Coonhound 

It’s a paradox to talk about everyday watches when the collection is growing for sure. I try to ”force” myself to alternate daily. I start the day with the ambition to keep in on for the day. My choise of the day varies over the year. Sport watches during summer more frequently. Vintage during colder month. I swap for exercise and physical labor but then go back again. Of course there are watches that gets more wrist time then others. That doesn’t bother me. I get pleasure of just playing around with them. They are my toys. 

I have a very modest collection of 12 watches and recently got some NATO/RAF straps which has greatly enhanced my desire to 'wear' some of these watches more frequently. I have two Seiko self winding automatics that require me to wear them every few weeks or so to keep them charged up. The rest are battery/quartz movements yet I find myself switching watches during the day just because I am enamored with them even more now. I guess due to WatchCrunch I have taken greater interest in all things watches and have come to appreciate my little collection more and more.   

I don't have a huge collection, but I find myself rotating through a few favourites mostly. The interesting part is, my favourites rotate over time as well, so I wear pretty much everything, just not in an even rotation. 

Like @RFIMike mentioned, watches on a NATO or MN strap seem to be what I reach for more than ones on leather. I gave up entirely on bracelets, particularly after I found myself avoiding one of my favourite watches b3cause it was on a bracelet. 

I try to wear all the watches as much as I can but there’s times I occasionally wear a watch twice or even a week. I know these are just mere tools but I do feel I do wish I can wear them all at once!! I know it’s insane but heck I’m insane!!

I find myself switching out watches when I'm home sitting around more then choosing one to wear out of the house. Have 12 so far and enjoy them all. This older first gen Mako is my go to, modded out and just an all around awesome daily. 

I have a larger collection, even after selling off a portion of it. I usually change my watch several times per day, but I only ever post the first watch of the day. I do have a dedicated nighttime watch that I wear to bed, my G Shock GWM5610.

I guess that would be the watch I wear more than any other, but I do cycle through my collection during the daytime. 🤣

It is indeed a first world problem. At work, I wear what matches my clothes, evening is a beater, usually a Casio, at night before sleeping is Apple watch - my most expensive alarm clock. Weekends is all sporty ones and wind them all on Sunday night. 
 

In a nutshell 3 watches/day: Automatic or Mechanical through the day, beater in the evening to do all house work and Apple Watch to track my sleep, heart and wake me up if I am alive next day.  

One year I found that my collection is too big (somewhere between 50 and 70 pieces, I'm not sure), I wrote down everyday which watch I wore - only to find out after a year that I wore each and every watch at least once without thinking about it.

I usually have a different watch on every day, only when I'm deeply in love with one I wear it multiple days in a row.

I don't have a dedicated everyday watch, more like a small group of watches I pick when I'm not in the mood to think about what to wear.

Thanks Man!  Huge Dog Lover! I lost my guy when he turned 14.  My wife doesn't want to get another one, but who knows.  Nothing like the companionship of Man's Best Friend!

Thanks for all your input on this.  What a world we live in.  While some are waking up wondering if they will have enough to eat or even survive the day, we get to wonder which one of our expensive toys to play with.  The Universe is indeed a wondrous, amazing, cruel, fickle and beautiful place, but definitely not fair to all the species within in.  Too Deep?  lol  Sorry man, lets' get back to talking about our watches.  Have a great day everyone!!

I have about 45 now in my collection. 10 are sentimental only, rarely worn. I have about 12 favorites in daily rotation. The others are in a gray zone, worn every other month or so. My wife has about 15 in her collection, but has a definite daily wear - a titanium quartz 29mm Citizen. She likes small watches and it is a great daily wear. 

I fell into that as well...wearing the same one or two when I have a lot of others just sitting. I now make it a point to work almost all of them into some sort of rotation. Even if it is just sitting around the house. I discovered on some of them, I had forgotten how much I liked them. By forcing myself to wear the ones that took a back seat to newer models, I re-learned why I bought it to begin with...makes collecting so much more fun...

My favourite one is whichever I decide to wear  my full "collection" (It's more of a hoard really) gets rotated often, I do wear some pieces more than others but I still choose a watch from a different category everyday (I have 4 boxes in 4 categories, diver, sport, dress and chrono) 

I have just over 40 watches in my collection, but only about 15 that get anything close to regular wear. I tend to change daily, but there are times when I find myself wearing the same watch for multiple days, and also situations where I may end up changing watches one or more times during the day. My choice depends entirely on my mood.

I have 30+ and have probably have near 60 at one point.  I have a rotation.  I wear everything but a couple that I have only as mementos.  I wear those too but not too often.  When I get a new watch I’ll prob wear that 3-4 days in a row but otherwise it’s a rotation.  

Roughly 1/3 of my collection of 25 is either ultra-novelty watches or watches that need to be fixed; so that helps narrow down my choices most days. 

The other portion I tend to rotate through about once a month or so. 

I also have been known to wear 2-3 watches a day, but that's kinda rare

I am giving (it's demanding?) more wrist time lately to my Glycine Airman, so it's currently my favorite watch. 

I have an extensive collection. I also buy and resell them. I wear a different one every day. There are only a select few that I have started the day off in more than once. If I start the day off with one and I like it I wear it for the whole day unless I sell it off of my arm. If I decide to take it off I go to my Sector 650 automatic. It's my favorite go to watch. It can be worn as an everyday watch, a dress watch, and a work watch. I have a Wenger that I used to go to. I love the looks and feel of it too. Since I got the Sector it has been the one. Every once in a while I feel sorry for the Wenger so I wear it. LOL 

My other half calls it "The Ritual."  I come home from work and change into casual cloths and pick my watch for the next day.  This has been my routine for years and years.

I wear my beater daily and when I'm off I wear a different watch of the day depend on the mood or the place I'm going. If I'm on vacation I travel with 3. I always try not to go over too much. It all depends on what your goals  you have for this great hobby. I share mines right now... All I want to have is a self satisfied collection that I'm happy with.

I have one watch (a field watch) that I have out and wind it every day. I leave it by my bedside so whenever I am going to do something i dont want my good watches to go thru (wash the dog, play soccer with my kids at the park etc) as well as throwing on my runners/knock about clothes I will change my watch from whatever I’ve been wearing that day to my bash em up watch. Just like I don’t wear my good clothes for that sort of activity, same with my watches. That way I can wear my good watches on regular rotation, and keeping that other one wound and easily accessible means its always ready to go 

I don't really have an every day watch because that's not the way I think about my watches. I see them more as companions for the day rather than as a whole collection that need management. What usually happen is that sometime between breakfast and shower I decide that it's going to be a good day to wear a specific watch and I grab it from the box or winder. Usually it's not the same watch that I wore the day before.

For me I don’t have an everyday watch, my watch for the day is dependent on my mood, my outfit and my destination 😁

I have a modest collection. I try to wear a watch a day. Rarely two, very infrequently, I repeat a day. 🧐🤔😉

I try to mix it up everyday, but I usually have a backup in my bag. If I don't, I feel like I Left the stove on or something.

However I do wear my G-shock GWM5610 to bed every night. It's like my teddy bear

Totally agree, I feel naked without my watch on and my teddy bear watch is one of my Peanuts Indiglo watches. lol

I try to wear a designated office watch for the day with a sporty beater in my bag just in case I unexpectedly need to do something physical like going to the gym.

The designated watch could be rotated, sometimes it’s the same watch two or three days in a row, sometimes it’s the gym beater.

I try not to worry about managing the rotation so that all watches get wrist time. I don’t feel guilty if a watch or two rarely get attention from me. As far as I’m concerned, the less I stress about the minutiae of watch wearing the more fun this hobby gets.