I have given a name to my pain, it is Attowak. I wanted a novelty watch with an interesting dial. The novelty was....you can't tell what time it is ;).

It wasn't a watch, it was a parade of watches over a long time. Like a frog that ends up boiling without noticing it because you turned up the heat slowly (I know this isn't true...but I like the cliche), my bank account boiled away as my interest in watch collecting built over time (again, not really true. I'm fiscally responsible collector).

First up, Hamilton Pulsar and its ilk. My dad bought a red led watch of the 1970's, he was cooler than your dad. Bought one once I caught the watch collecting bug a couple of years ago.

I really wanted to be James Bond. I was a huge Ian Flemming fan. Bond wore a watch, it was cool. Times change, I like my martini's stirred not shaken. While I like the submariner in general, I'm not a fan the mercedes hands so it sits on the "maybe list"

Next step, coolest tech I'd ever seen as a 15 year old was on the wrist of a referee in a soccer game - Omega Seamaster Soccer . It was a gadget, it was soccer (football), it was heaven. It's on the list to acquire once I'm a bit more comfortable with my expertise on purchasing a vintage watch.

Timex Ironman...if it was good enough for the president, it was good enough for me. Plus, it made me feel athletic as I tracked my swimming (ok), my cycling (ok), my running (not at all ok). Tried to restore my old one, gave up, bought the modern variant.

Finally, after a tough work project, I decided to give out some watches to key people and get one from myself. It was the Tissot Gentleman for staff and Nomos for me.

Since then, there have been many more. I'm working on a 3 watch collection, well...20 three watch collections.

If you are just starting out, you might want to switch to a simpler, larger manual movement like a 6498 clone.

Instead of ordering just a pallet fork, it may be cost effective to by a couple of movements. My experience has been that pinging parts that want to hide from me and broken bits are part of the experience. Having a couple "hangar queens" means that you don't have to wait for an order to go to next steps.

ST36 (6498 clone) Usually they cost about 30-35 dollars in USA.

Longer than 50mm lug to lug, cyclops, "ice", Mercedes hands, tasmanian devil on dial, California dials, hair pulling bracelets. Yep, can't wait to get it all off my chest during Festivus "Airing of Grievances"

Have a couple of Nomos watches but I see the long lugs as a feature not a bug. I really like the 35 tangente.

Would not purchase the colorways in the original post. I don't like how the colors interact and it doesn't feel like the Bauhaus asthetic that I think drives and should drive Nomos watch design. I'd prefer it if Nomos lean into Kandinsky's color palette and associations if they want to go in colorful direction.

Nomos 31

Kandinsky

My watch collection intentionally includes differing technologies used show time on the wrist. So, I added a mecha-quartz. It's from Dan Henry and I bought it used. I like it more than I expected and I consider it a good value. It gets a bit more wrist time than I expected when I bought it.

Only down side is the silly 24 hour dial that is a function of the Seiko VK-63 movement. This is a common movement used in mecha-quartz watches.

While not as flexible as a white dial watch, I think I'd go with a simple blue gold combination.

BTW...the collection you presented is awesome.