What watch started your watch addiction

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i like my friend submariner back then but didnt have the money, so this one will do for now😂

That started the madness... Hmmmm

Like you, I always liked watches, but wasn't really a watch nut until this year & honestly? I don't really recall what triggered it. 

I bought a Mumbai special "Citizen" Automatic, then a 4 pack of NOS Star Wars promo watches and then a G-Shock and it was off to the races. 

First watch I bought for myself was a Tissot Gentleman. Then for weekends outdoors, a Hamilton Khaki Field.  Then . . . well, you know.

This Frederique Constant was the first mechanical watch I bought when I was a 2nd year undegrad. It seemed very affordable and I madly wanted a dress watch for my intership interviews 🤣

I'd worn watches fairly regularly for years. But it was this Christopher Ward pilot watch that triggered an obsession about 11 years ago. 

Always had a bit of an interest. But getting this hydroconquest with my 30years service award, finances changing ie no mortgage and the lockdown started dabbling on social media,so thought I'll join the genteel world of watch collecting, and then there's the forums,what harm is there in those 🤯😅.

The Omega was passed on to me from my dad in 2019, kinda to test myself whether I can take care of the watch. Then in 2020 some days before my birthday, I bought the Grand Seiko as my first ever luxury watch (this pic was from the day I got it). Then began digging through the rabbit hole since, and watches just piles on and on haha

This:

then this:

then this:

For me, I started with the desire for Omega Seamaster Pro 300 - it is the love at first sight for me. 

I think I will never get to own one as I might choose something smaller to fit with my tiny wrist.

Some are just meant to be the aspiration, but who could forget the one who made you fall in love right?

Zenith. It was all Zenith and that damned El Primero. 😂

Similar to many others I’m sure, the watch that really set off my addiction was the seiko skx007. This ones seen me Through a lot of moments in life and I honestly wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Moonswatch 🤦‍♂️

Before this watch, I thought all watches used batteries.   It was mind-blowing. 

For me, I had been wearing (and wearing out) a few Timex, Casio's, a Freestyle that was the first watch I had bought with my own money, as a souvenir when I was a kid on vacation, and then a Relic brand watch. I saw a Nixon in a skate shop (in about 2005) that I replaced it with, at the time it was the most I had spent on a watch. This Nixon Super Rover Chrono...

A few of the resin links broke a few times in a row, all while under warranty, so they kept replacing it. Once they just sent me a completely new watch, that is still like new in the box, maybe worn a few times, because...

While all of this was going on, I began to research quality watches since the band breaking was really frustrating, and ended up with a Seiko SNK80* and an SKX007 then a 009 then more, and more, and more... you get the idea.

TL;DR: I'm here because a Nixon kept breaking, and I went down the rabbit hole. 

Always loved watches but my first “big” purchase was a Movado museum model in 2007. I had other watches before, from places like Fossil or Diesel. But the one that REALLY got me into this hobby in a more serious manner was my Skyflake.  It’s been a very expensive downhill since then. 
 

This heirloom from my Dad helped me decide to start collecting...

#citizen #vintage #citizenwatch 

Then this got me going...

#seiko5 #snxs79 

I wish I still had it but it has to be the timex indiglo. Then my dad got my a blue sector quartz diver and that was it. Don’t have either of them anymore but I still have the watches I used the most during my teens. 

Thanks for sharing everyone!   Really enjoyed reading them!!

Ernst Benz Chronosport and I still have it today

My wedding watch started my interest in these tiny machines 

This is the one that really started me down the path as a youth...that distortion is the ultra-cool faceted crystal...

But what really launched me was when I caught the vintage bug with Hamilton Electrics and my first Ventura...

I had no idea Fidel wore a Casio, I always saw him wearing a Rolex. I think I'll have to get one.

In his later years, I remember seeing him on the news and noticed he had a small digital Casio like I did, that’s probably why the association stayed with me.

The moonwatch got me. It was the first time I spent that much money on a watch (3050€ new, shipping included. Sounds cheap now, right?). I thought it was going to be the end of my collection. Actually, it started everything.

I worked like a fiend to buy this model watch when I was in highschool 

My highschool senior year I bought a Datejust on layaway.  I picked it up in time for Graduation. My parents screamed at me, my girlfriend broke up with me (she was thinking I had a ring on layaway) and my siblings said I was a wasteful dumbass. We didn't have Rolex purchasing $ in my family. My Gramps said it was cool because it taught me to to work for a goal. His advice was to put needs before wants from that moment forward. He was the 1st person to congratulate me on buying a watch. 

Great story.  I have fond memories of lay away.  lol

It all started with The legendary one and only Casio 5600