How Impressed Would Your Past-Self Be With Your Current Collection?

My younger self would be disgusted over the sheer avarice, lack of control and discipline my current collection highlights. My younger self would cringe.

When will I be satisfied is a very introspective question.

And it doesn't just apply to watches.

When is it all just enough?

2 years ago me would be ECSTATIC that I have a Seiko Tuna, a Glycine Airman and a few others.

I might be reaching one more & done status. No, seriously. Ok, 2 more & done. Maybe 3...

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You lie! Hahaha

My self from 3 years ago would think I had gone completely insane.

As @brunofrankelli states, past me would be in awe but with a definite side of revulsion for the decadence and folly. He'd be impressed but ridicule it. I haven't changed much.

I've got one watch with a value that includes a comma, I got Zelos like I was drooling over, and a GMT with a Pepsi bezel like I love. My starter self would be psyched!

"You spent what on a what!?"

Believe it or not a younger version of me would have one watch purely for function. Where did that guy go...🤣

Younger me was ignorant to automatic watches. I knew of quartz watches, I'd had mechanical watches (one wristwatch, one pocket watch, both cheap and utilitarian.) I came of age just after the quartz crisis peaked. The "nice" watches that I knew of were quartz and the cheap watches were quartz.

So younger me would be impressed because almost all of what I have is automatic and that 250-year-old concept is still FM* technology to me. It's still cheap and cheerful but coming from a long line of Mechanics (people who fix machines in this usage) and knowing that a mechanical movement is ticking away in my wrist is a tiny thrill.

*"Fooking Magic"

Past me would be too busy playing Xbox to care about the time 🤣

A younger me would be thrilled! Current me is thrilled!

My younger self would sell 'em and blow the lot on drink, drugs and wild women 🤣🤣

Past me was an idiot who hated sub-dials, cut indices, and was obsessed with divers and drivers. We don’t talk to that guy anymore.

I don't know about drool, but they certainly would be impressed.

My younger self would not be impressed, in fact be very critical of my present rotation of watches, firstly far too many, strayed too far away from investigating horology when I dabbled in watchmaking, saved for interesting complications etcetera. These days I just head out to some ad to pick up my latest adult toy, which I do love to wear and own but certainly not why I first fell in love with mechanical watches.

100%. The only things I cared about when I was a young degenerate was bikes and ass🤣. Could have given fuck all about a watch back then.

An interesting question. I would probably have a similar response one practical watch to do all things and not a hundred... Not that I own a hundred but the way things are going it might not be that long. The more important question is what one watch would past me have chosen...

You have always had good taste haha!

My younger self would be impressed. The one that ate Ramen every day to survive.

I suspect my older self will kick me and ask me why the hell I ended up spending all my money on watches when I could’ve just amassed properties.

I get emotional thinking of when I was in college and could only afford a Timex Easy reader. Now I have a pretty nice collection with some being $1000. I might cry when I buy my first Tudor seeing the journey I’ve been through financially.

Yeah, there is a time for everything. 😉

My younger self would be distinctly UNimpressed. 😂

He was buying watches (at least partly) to flex. To show off. To prove how well he was doing. He owned a Pulsar P2, a Rolex Explorer II Polar, a 1655 ref Rolex Explorer II, and a Rolex Submariner.

His older self wised up. I see no reason to wear 10s of thousands of dollars on my wrist. As I've matured, I realize the ONLY person I need to impress is ME. So the Rolexes are gone and replaced with Steinharts, a Tissot, and a G-Shock. The older me loves these watches for all the right reasons. 😉 The younger me would've never understood. 🙄

My younger self would say the same thing my current self has been saying for awhile now..."You should have just bought a Pre Ceramic Submariner and been a One Watch Guy..." Would have saved myself A LOT of money, time, and obsessing.

Past me would be very proud of current me. Love where the collection is.

The younger version of me would wonder why I stopped buying guitars and started spending money on something silly like a watch!

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Truth. After 17 guitars, I switched to collecting audio plugins (2000+ no space), chess boards (7+ a little space) and now watches (<12 less space) 😀

Honestly, it was probably my younger self that brought me here given I'm still relatively young (18).

As a kid I was always interested in science and history from all the reading I did from receiving books for my birthdays.

I only started my watch journey last August 2023 when I wanted a new watch so I consumed watch content such as prideandpinion, Teddy Baldasarre (I feel like I messed that up) and other content creators and I just knew I loved it all. The craftsmanship, history and heritage. Trust me when I say all it would take is "the second hand sweeps instead of ticks", "it doesn't need a battery" and a glimpse into one of my open casebacks for little me to fall in love too.

My past self would have me committed to Bellevue. Then turn right back around and start buying watches.

I can relate to this so well.