How often do you wear your most expensive watch?

I said a minority of the time not because of what it cost, but because it’s 60 years old and irreplaceable if I damage it. I save it for special occasions.

For me, occasion and mood are the deciding factors for choosing a watch, not price. Hence the Paganis, Scurfa or Squale get as much wrist time as the VC or GO. Actually, I think the $350 vintage (nice word for second-hand) Zenith threehander gets the most wrist time of all 😂

I'm not sure exactly which one it is but it's probably gold and vintage so it's naturally relegated to light duty anyway.

I think there is nothing wrong having a watch that you wear on special occasions only. Do you have a suit or shoes, or ties (I only wear ties on very very special occasions) that you only wear on special occasions? Most people do. So, what is irresponsible of having a "special occasion" watch? As long as it does not put you in a financial bind, I do not see anything wrong with it. My most expensive watch I wear once every couple months, and that enough for me. My wife puts on her nice jewelry and I put on my nice watch.

my most expensive watch happens also to be my most worn watch....and I think that´s spot on, ´cause that´s why I bought it, to wear and enjoy it

That's how it's been for me in recent years.

Certainly nothing wrong with it (and it's a personal thing). That's why I was curious as to how others view it. I couldn't justify my most expensive watch being a watch that I only wear once in a blue moon just because it would bug me that I spent "a lot" of money for a luxury item that mostly never gets used. Oh, and I actually don't own a suit, tie or dress shoes. 😂

My most expensive watch is my most versatile.

I really try not to. Very difficult tho 🤣

If i'm not going to wear a watch often, it better be something that I spent very little on. I'll spend big bucks on a watch, but only if it's something I intend to wear a lot. I have no interest in an expensive watch that just sits in the box.

You are right, it is a personal thing. I knew when I was buying that watch that I will be wearing it only a few times a year, so it does not bug me that it is not used more.

Should I ever own a wrist watch that costs $1K+, it will be worn as much as possible.

I say that because even with a Sangin, Tudor, or Sinn, I still like my entire collection.

My most expensive watch is 1200 CHF, so I have no problems wearing it regularly.

Wearing my most expensive watch right now, Longines Grande Vitesse. Don't remember the last time I wore it, honestly. I've been on the fence off selling it for a year or so now. My first Swiss automatic, and it's a chronograph as a bonus. I like it, but I don't find myself reaching for it much. Plus, I bought it at a really good price, and could sell it on for a good profit, although probably not quickly.

My most expensive watch is a dressy piece, I don't dress up much. So it sits in my safe. I wind it on Sundays and it just sits there for the most part until someone's getting married I guess 😂

Only when going out or special occasions

Mine is too dressy for my day to day, so I don't wear it as often as I 'd like. Currently looking for a strap that would dress it down a bit.

Due to the nature of my occupation I mostly wear my gshock and smart watch aka my work watches. Of my three 'leisure' watches I wear them pretty evenly

Hey Korey, first of all, love your SARB and the snow photos you’ve been posting 🔥.

My most expensive watch currently is my G-Shock 40th Anniversary edition. I definitely find myself making a conscious effort to use it more often to “get my money’s worth” haha. But it’s not quite “Majority of the time” bec it gets cold up here and a G-Shock just isn’t the best idea when you have multiple layers on XD.

Your realization about spending thousands on a special occassion watch being irresponsible and wasteful is something I’ve been grappling with. My willpower is flagging though so I might buy my first luxury watch soon 😅. If only your SARB was still readily available.

My most expensive watch is a rose gold PP perpetual calendar moonphase watch that sat in my bank safety deposit box for nearly 10 years waiting to be retrieved by my father in law’s good friend and colleague. Eventually he sold the watch to me because his cancer was terminal and essentially for the cash that I used to carry in my wallet when cash was still accepted. I rarely wear it and will never sell it since it doesn’t really feel like something that I own. I have left the final decision to my brilliant wife since the seller was her family friend.

Being mostly in home office I wore my bretiling, omega and gp almost as much as my sinn 556. For travel I usually take the sinn.

I said equal time. My most expensive watch cost me less than $200. The retail price was probably more but I shop for bargains in watches even if I have to buy it used. I don't own anything I couldn't easily replace, except some out of production Seiko 5's. If I am afraid to wear it I don't want it.

It's interesting; if we take my Seamaster to be the most expensive (neck and neck with the Ranger), I don't wear it a whole lot. Probably because when I'm dressed up for the office and it would look totally ace with my clothes, I think about destroying the bracelet on the desk while typing, so I don't wear it. I tend to wear it when going out, doing summery things especially, and knowing I won't be sitting at a desk! And because that doesn't happen every day - and I also have a bunch of watches to consider wearing when I am in that sort of scenario - it just doesn't get a lot of use in reality. But I love owning it!

Last year I picked up an Omega, my grail. I could have got an Aqua Terra or 300 Pro, but I got a dressy Constellation. As my first luxury watch, I especially DIDNT want something I would wear every day. I wanted a watch to break out at key office meetings or important personal events. That keeps it 'special' for me, a league above most of my other watches. I do think that there is a place in my collection now for a more general, (a bit less expensive) 'nice daily' but I am happy I have this one for those key memories and I have no regrets. The value of a watch for me isn't the number of times I wear it.

I selected equal wrist time because I rarely wear the same watch more than once or twice in a year. I try and get a rotation from all of the watches in the collection during the year. However, some of my better watches do get a couple of days more wrist time than the others.

This one probably got the most wrist time last year...

And this one is likely to get the most wrist time this year...

And since I just put a deposit down on it, my hope is that this one will come into the collection before the end of 2024, and it will definitely be the most worn of 2025 if it does...

All my watches are on rotation and i change out my watches daily so that all of them get worn at least once a month, sometimes on special occasions i would pick out a favorite watch for the day then go back to where i left off on the rotation

Anytime I feel like it 🤷🏽‍♂️

My most expensive watch that I bought with my own money, wear it all the time and it tends to be my go-to for weekends. Sinn 556 I.B.

My most expensive watch gifted to me, a Tudor BB58 925 from my wife for a job promotion, on special occasions or when I want to feel pretty.

My Speedy (a gift) is far more than everything else I have and it’s nearly all I wear. If it weren’t for the sentimental value of the others, I wouldn’t have them.

I got an Omega Constellation 41 too as my first luxury watch. I chose it over Rolex DJ as my dress watch. It justifies the price, love the dial and the croc strap.