Do you bind your watch with memories?
In a good and bad ways, my watches are some kind of “memory card” for me. I often remember which events I experience while wearing a watch.
For instance, I got turned down from a job wearing my #hamilton, and from then on, that watch is tied to that bad memory. My #seiko5 was worn when I tend to my son when he was hospitalized.
This might be a way to romanticize this money-black-hole of a hobby, but for better or worse, my watches are a witness to my ups and downs.
Share your story with fellow WC people about a watch tied to a life-altering or significant event in your life!
5 comments
Sort by
Fadhil
I have a corporate career and run an IT Consulting Firm to feed my watch addiction.
Indonesia
Member since
Last active: 37 min ago
6.50” / 16.51 cm
I don’t romanticise my watches. They are just accessories. A watch is no more significant to a memory than the shoes I happened to be wearing that day.
My memories are focussed on the people, the places, the stories, the laughter. If I remembered the watch I was wearing then I was focussing on the wrong thing in the moment!
I can nerd out about watches as much as the next person. But I don’t fetishise them.
My watches are mostly just my mechanical adult toys but my wife who is not sentimental or a watch person guards a 1985 quartz 2T Hermes and 2 Cartier timepieces with surprising affection. The Hermes was a going away gift from me when she decided to stay after her uni studies were completed. The Cartier Ballon Bleu marked the successful conclusion of her egregious chemo treatments when she was battling a rare breast cancer. The story of her other Cartier is too long for here but is a talisman watch.
Nope.
I do when looking at pictures and noticing which watch I was wearing at the time. It’s usually my Explorer, and I like that continuity. Holding a newborn relative. Posing with my wife on vacation. Sitting on a tailgate with my friends before a concert. There are pictures that stand out to me and it makes me smile to see the watch in my wrist.
I usually buy watches to commemorate an occasion such a birthday, father's/mothers day, anniversaries, etc. My recent acquisition was a retirement gift to myself.. Cheers!