Starting Over
Sometimes I like to do a thought exercises around "starting over", for example if I had to run out of the house with only a "WUSH/Go Bag" or if I were going to live on a boat for a year - what would I bring, clothes, gear, watches, etc
In a similar vein I've thought about what would happen if my entire collection evaporated and I had to start over, where would I start, what have I learned in the last two years of collecting that'll influence my decisions now, almost like having a head start
Personally I'd have less watches, maybe move a bit up market, certainly have less straps, and worry less about "filling a void" in what I have and focus more on what actually satisfies me
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the only thing I would change is not to buy a watchbox!!! It’s so true it’s a Devil’s Doing!! Haunts you to fill it and it’s constantly hungry for more watches and then it will reproduce and have another watch box and another!! Ahhhhhhh noooooo nooooo no more watch boxes….and it seduce you to pick up more watches like a zombie and abide it’s wishes…
It’s will drive you crazy and that you will lose your seeds or marbles!!
Same here. There's a lot I would do differently.
the only thing I would change is not to buy a watchbox!!! It’s so true it’s a Devil’s Doing!! Haunts you to fill it and it’s constantly hungry for more watches and then it will reproduce and have another watch box and another!! Ahhhhhhh noooooo nooooo no more watch boxes….and it seduce you to pick up more watches like a zombie and abide it’s wishes…
It’s will drive you crazy and that you will lose your seeds or marbles!!
This is good, or make a hard and fast rule that you cannot exceed what it can hold, but we all know how that ends
Same here. There's a lot I would do differently.
Elaborate so we can all learn!
Another lesson for me is to be more picky and more demanding of what I want out of a watch, settling just leads to disappointment
Elaborate so we can all learn!
Another lesson for me is to be more picky and more demanding of what I want out of a watch, settling just leads to disappointment
Research more before pulling the trigger on my first watch, being patient, setting up a savings system, that it's better (for me) to have one nice watch than many meh ones, etc. Because now I'm in the same position where I want to downsize and have just a few watches I love rather than many that I like, but I can apply these principles going forward.
I‘d just get a capable, reasonably priced, timeless looking watch that goes with anything I wear…and that’s it. I’d do the same thing with the likes of dishes, my car, a modest house, one of ‘this and that’ etc. Life has become too convoluted.
I‘d just get a capable, reasonably priced, timeless looking watch that goes with anything I wear…and that’s it. I’d do the same thing with the likes of dishes, my car, a modest house, one of ‘this and that’ etc. Life has become too convoluted.
Interestingly enough, a conversation about dishes was what prompted this post- life is becoming a sea of too many decisions
Allow me to elaborate, or defend myself, depending on how you're coming at this
I wound up with 3 different lug width watches pretty quickly, so I wound up getting a bunch of straps and various sizes and turns out I have a type, just had to find my way there. It's bad when you have a SPB143 worth of straps only two years into this hobby...
I dont want to start over. cus if i could travel back in time, i’d tell myself to pick a more sensible hobby 😂
i am content with my collection, enjoying my journey and working for the future 👍🏼
I would tell 2007 me to buy a 16570 and a Gshock...then turn off the internet.
If my collection of four watches would disappear right now, I'd propably buy Sinn U1 or Tudor Black bay and use it everywhere every time.
I dont want to start over. cus if i could travel back in time, i’d tell myself to pick a more sensible hobby 😂
i am content with my collection, enjoying my journey and working for the future 👍🏼
No hobby is sensible 😜
Great question and there would be a few things i would change, but it would not be possible. Two years in and I can honestly say, it basically chose me. Thinking back it was kind of a other- worldly experience. I think it had to play out the way it did. There was no critical thinking or logic involved, pure passion and spontaneity. I think there is a deeper meaning in it that I'm still learning and figuring out. Having said that, I'm enjoying the distraction from a lot of the negativity going on in the world and spending hours looking at books and watching Watch YouTubers. Coming here and meeting some of the nicest people on the internet is the cherry on the cake!
I could not rebuild my collection from scratch today in the current market. In fact, getting a Rolex sport model of any type right now is out of the question. I'm not a big enough fish even in my small local pond. Aside from that, I don't have the financial resources to put into watches now that I had in years past as I edge closer to retirement and changing priorities.
I just made a list of my ideal "starting over" collection and it was well over $100k. Yeah, I can't afford that. LOL
I'd get a 3-watch collection plus two beater watches.
Planet Ocean, Skyflake, Spitfire.
Then add a G-Shock and a Seiko5 Field Watch
I guess if I had to start again, I'd probably get a watch with 100m+ water resistance for everyday wear, preferably around 1~2k USD. Maybe a Seiko, or Rado, or even Tag.
Other than that, I'm happy with my Cle de Cartier, so that would have been my dress watch. I might have tried on the 35mm too.
Then I would get a work watch, a quartz "beater." My Citizen is already great in that regards, but maybe I could have gotten something sleeker as I can't imagine wearing my Skyhawk under a cuff.
Wow I don't know what I would do with myself now that I'm in this wonderful hobby but back then. I was always a one watch person. then there was 2 for a few years. Once I got a third one in the rabbit hole I went.🤣