How do you collect watches?

I just buy watches I like of any type I’ve noticed I have a thing for black dials tho as Henry Ford said you can have any colour as long as it’s black 🤣🤣

I like mainly pilot watches but l need to have everything. The only thing missing in my collection is a moonphase, Tourbillion and one of those crazy complications.

Very early in my collecting and at the moment I feel like I want one of each type, and I’m finding it hard to venture away from black dials. See Henry Ford comment above by @Michael_adventure99 👍

Wanted to select B, but that's not really true.

What does "every type" mean? I got some Vintage Watches, some Dress Type Watches, some Divers, a Chrono, a GMT. But I'll never buy a Pilot/Submarine Watch. Don't like them.

Also i'll never own a high complication watch.

Probably way too many of you selected B, instead of C. ;)

I buy what I think I will wear.

I don't pin myself down to specific types or to tick boxes. I'll probably never own a field or flieger, or a diver that costs over a couple of hundred quid. Other than that anything goes.

I don't.

I collect variety in groups of three at each price point. A sport/dress, a tool watch, and a complication.

I attempt to be brand diverse as well.

I want a space collection, and an explorers collection, a vintage collection of significant watches, and then a "me" collection that I love to wear and watches that I built or saved. I've been going nuts lately, buying a couple watches a month. I'm in that addict mode where I keep saying " just one more". Lol I seriously want about another dozen pieces specifically, plus I eventually want to service and re-home old movements into modern cases so a new generation can enjoy them. Lofty goals I know.

I'm definitely a "check the boxes" type of guy. I've identified six or seven main categories, and once those are filled, will focus on trying to diversify brands, materials, etc.

I collect what speakers to me. I don't box myself into one particular brand or style. I really the idea that I'll end up with a good variety of Brands and styles. And I'll know that I bought them for me not to check a box.

I'm all in on quartz but there's plenty of variety within that category for some fun watches.

I have a little of everything, but my main areas of interest are field watches and GMT/worldtime complications. And although I haven't expanded it in a while, I've also got a nice little subcollection of Soviet era watches.

You buy what you like, simple as that. Maybe, when you start having multiple watches, you will start looking at other types you don't own. My favorites are Chronographs, more than half my collection are chronographs and I still have styles of chronographs that I would love to own.

The more you buy one type, the more the other styles/types of watches will get you more and more attention. I'm quite a fan of military watches. I do only have 1 field watch, but there's many I'd like to own.

Some types will simply never get you much attention. For me, moonphases and skeleton watches are not for me. I simply haven't found one at my budget that is tempting me. Maybe someday I'll buy one, but I don't see myself craving for more.

Some types will get you attention only for a few reasons. I'm not a fan of diver watches, but I like GMT watches, and both can be commonly seen, so that can be my entryway into divers, but for now, I kinda prefer Pilot GMT, so the Longines Zulu time is really tempting myself into doing something stupid (aka buying a seriously expensive watch) before considering buying a proper divers watch