No matter how many watches we own! Proves me wrong 😑
It doesn't matter how many watches we have, we always gravitate towards the same two or three!
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Demian
I have a preference for straightforward, utilitarian timepieces. While dress watches don't quite align with my taste, I find myself drawn to the elegance of divers' watches. What captivates me most is...
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Agreed. That's why I'm having a cull of my collection this week. More & more I'm wearing my Seamaster 300M Diver, my Aqua Terra, my OP & my Santos 100. I'm putting other watches on my wrist at the start of the day & by lunchtime I've changed them out.
Nope. I tried to create a "top six" watch box. Today I'm wearing another watch, because matching watches and outfits is too much fun. If I don't like a watch anymore, I mod it into something I do like. So I have about 20 mechanical watches in rotation. Well 19 really, one is ready for an overhaul.
Wouldn't there be some 80/20 rule?
20% of my watches would round down to two or three. I doubt they get 80% of wear time though.
Wouldn't there be some 80/20 rule?
20% of my watches would round down to two or three. I doubt they get 80% of wear time though.
I don’t even understand this rule 😂
It's a general thing. 80% of your wardrobe gets worn 20% of the time and vice versa. 20% of customers cause 80% of problems. Wait, I should be linking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Looking at my wear history data, I have 21 wearable pieces, and 4 of them (~20%) get 71% of the wrist time.
In descending order...
45.4%
11.3%
9.3%
5%
Sure, its like ice-cream, easily you can eat every day a vanilla or chocolate ice cream, but your favorite could be pistachio... but if you eat pistachio every day, after some weeks you hate it, haha.
You are not wrong at all.
I usually alternate between my Casio Wave Ceptor and Tissot Seastar for daily wear. On weekends and holidays, the rest of the watches come out to party. It's fun to change it up, but I think your theory is correct.
I wear all 24 of them, all the time. 🍻
Well, Maybe more like to the same 7,8 ones...
Not for me I rotate my watches daily so a different watch per day for 2 week then start the process again... #casio #gshock #edifice #timex #accurist #suunto
Depends on what I am doing, this Saturday going to join my wife’s older brother, two older sisters and their spouses at a decent restaurant for dinner, they do not get together too often so will be chatting mostly in Mandarin Chinese which I can understand but still a little inept with speaking. I will be seated to middle sis’s retired husband who was an accountant also not fluent in spoken Chinese a little boring unless he is talking about &$$. We will chat politely but I usually wear a watch with a complicated movement to set and re set properly.
I circulate between about 8 watches in my box.
It's a general thing. 80% of your wardrobe gets worn 20% of the time and vice versa. 20% of customers cause 80% of problems. Wait, I should be linking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
80/20 does make the best hamburgers
I have to more or less agree with this. Even with my small 6 piece collection.
I tend to suffer from SQUIRREL! 🐿️ syndrome. The squirrel in me has managed to tuck away a few more watches than necessary for this winter. The problem is I love wearing them all. As such, I have recently made a conscious effort to wear my 'core 4' watches more (which would fit the 80/20 mentioned earlier). It's my attempt at a brain reset to refocus the collection and make culling the heard a bit easier in the new year.
I rotate my entire collection within reason (not going to wear my yellow g shock to the office of course). I usually wear one or 2 watches a week and keep switching it up.
I've slid the yellow casioak under the cuff to the office. It felt right. Go for it. 👍
That's not true. I wore my Timex Waterbury..um..like..last July😬
I’ve got close to 100 so that means I’m trying to wear each one at least three days out of the year. 😉
It's a general thing. 80% of your wardrobe gets worn 20% of the time and vice versa. 20% of customers cause 80% of problems. Wait, I should be linking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Sounds about right… at the office where I work 20% of the people do 80% of the actual work 😂
Some of us are sicker then others! The funniest is when you read a post about someone buying the same watch 4 or 5 times 😂😂👏👏
and then they say: because is not the watch.. is the journey 😂
Tend to wear my Seamaster's (sm300, AT) far more than anything else. Should really have a cull...
I've slid the yellow casioak under the cuff to the office. It felt right. Go for it. 👍
Maybe I'll take a crack at it one of these days when I'm feeling brave
I wear all 24 of them, all the time. 🍻
The "Wrist Time" fanatics got nothing on you!
80/20 does make the best hamburgers
I'm searching for my best "Waiting for Burgers to be Done" watch.
Sounds about right… at the office where I work 20% of the people do 80% of the actual work 😂
That's where you especially notice it.
I have 33 watches, and not much rhyme or reason at all why or when I wear them. And that's how we like it.
But what about the other 2/3 of your collection?
and then they say: because is not the watch.. is the journey 😂
It's not a journey! It's not a journey!
It's not a toomahh! It's not a toomahh!*
*Spoken in a phony Schwarzenegger accent (while wearing a Seiko Arnie watch)
Agreed. In my case, I guess it has something to do with my evolving taste.