So happy with a new watch, I want to sell everything else. Ever been there?
A fun, but serious topic, as the clock passes midday on New Year's Ever, here in Sydney.
I recently picked up a new watch. I won't name it, as I don't want to cloud the conversation to being about the watch specifically.
What I want to talk about is how I'm feeling.
I feel SO in love with this watch, guys, I'm looking at the rest of my collection (8 watches at present, after a big clean out), and I'm thinking, do I still need that one? When will I ever wear that one? Why did I even buy THAT one, when watches like this new one exist? Etc.
Basically, I'm having these wild thoughts about turning into a one watch collection, maybe with an eye on adding another piece or two in the future again to round it out.
Talk me off the ledge, this is crazy talk, right? Right?
I've loved watches all my life, going back to the 1980s. Current watchbox: Seiko, Bulova, and Casio.
Maybe. Maybe not. It could be partially a euphoria of the new watch, give it a while before you sell everything else. Or it could be that amazing. Regardless, give it a while.
Enjoy the honeymoon! Love will subside but you will still love her.
Then comes along the other and it sparks that flame you once new.
You still love the other, but you can't get this new one out of your mind.
Should I say more.
I have a harem in my bedroom lol
Good luck my watch friend
I often think about selling every watch but my favorite and the ones gifted to me. It's not a ridiculous thought at all wanting to wear your favorite much more without this lingering thought other watches should get some time.
Nah, I'm about there as well.
I'd get a new G-Shock, a Seiko diver(almost ready to pull the trigger), keep my Airman, my Treehut (dress watch, the 56mm M. Johansen, my racing Chrono, sell/gift everything else & save like mad for a Speedy.
Everything else I have was pretty much an impulse buy or acquired to fill a collection I no longer want
The biggest regret you'll have is selling a piece that you thought you no longer wanted, only for you to question why you did this days/weeks/years later. Enjoy the new watch. Don't do anything rash.
I triple dog dare you to sell everything else. Sell or you don't love your new watch.
slaps some sense into @complication
Oy vey....that's honeymoon talk, my friend. Unless you went crazy buying stuff when building your collection you want to take some time, take several deep breaths and take your time before deciding.
Happy New Year! I've been there. Keep the other pieces. Time can change things. I once wore 1 watch 16 months straight
Your question reminded me of a scene from that 1984 “classic” film, Bachelor Party that starred Tom Hanks. In this particular scene Tom Hanks asks his older, married brother, Stan, what is the “honest scoop” about being married and this was Stan’s response:
“The honest scoop? The first month, from the beginning, is terrific. It's great.
The second month, things calm down a little bit...
Third month, you're looking through old phone numbers, old girlfriends...
But, by the fourth month... by the fourth month you're just... you're numb. You know? Just... It's incredible.
So by the fifth month, hopefully, football season starts. Football. - You got ball games. You got Monday Night. ”
Sooo… hold onto those other watches at least until Monday Night Football starts again next season. 😀
(Btw, I’ve been married for 28 years. 😉)
I’ve had times where I THOUGHT I’d feel that way about a watch, and worried that getting it would just hurt my other watches. Luckily it hasn’t really happened.
What HAS happened, however, is that I’ve gotten to where my COLLECTION of watches has made it so that I can’t find a watch that I can buy. 😂 Every time I like a new watch I go check it out and think about how it would fit the collection and for the past year I’ve found that none do. Which maybe means I’ve reached some sort of mythical peak collection, for me and my taste at this point in my life, at least.
Your question reminded me of a scene from that 1984 “classic” film, Bachelor Party that starred Tom Hanks. In this particular scene Tom Hanks asks his older, married brother, Stan, what is the “honest scoop” about being married and this was Stan’s response:
“The honest scoop? The first month, from the beginning, is terrific. It's great.
The second month, things calm down a little bit...
Third month, you're looking through old phone numbers, old girlfriends...
But, by the fourth month... by the fourth month you're just... you're numb. You know? Just... It's incredible.
So by the fifth month, hopefully, football season starts. Football. - You got ball games. You got Monday Night. ”
Sooo… hold onto those other watches at least until Monday Night Football starts again next season. 😀
(Btw, I’ve been married for 28 years. 😉)
Love this movie, thanks for reminding me.
So by way of follow-up, a new purge has started. But it won't be complete.
Yes, the new watch has stolen my attention, but I take onboard the need to have options, and I take onboard the immense likelihood of the romance cooling down at some stage.
What I think I will achieve in the meantime is getting my collection down to 4 or 5 pieces I really, really appreciate. It will really focus me on a small and more achievable to wear collection.
And I think that will be a good thing. For now :)
a verse from Hotel California which resonates with my collecting…….
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"
Congratulations! It must be a great watch. And we want to see it 🙂
Congratulations! It must be a great watch. And we want to see it 🙂
I understand that, but as I said in the OP, it's not about the watch. The minute I put the watch up, someone will be disappointed, someone will be surprised, someone else will declare they'd never feel that way about that watch, etc. And suddenly we're off to the races, talking about the watch, rather than what I'm feeling. And what I'm feeling is the point. Not the watch. I side-stepped that rabbit hole from the first post :)