Are you a bad influence??

Excellent work brother 👍 I work in a two man crew and my (former non watch guy) colleague now owns 4 watches and has just purchased his own little tool roll for his straps. 
Keep up the good work my friend 😎

Sight...

With few exceptions, nobody ever noticed my watches and it has never been the subject of a conversation. That's probably because I'm a strange old fart that everybody avoid.

"He was the worst of friends, he was the best of friends..."

I think I've made quite a few comments in the past about being a watch addiction enabler. Don't come to me to be talked out of buying a watch. I'm the last person to consult about living a steady, safe life. 

A human wants and needs to be a part of various communities. We make families to become a part of exclusive community that shares a lot of your interests. So it is natural to recruit people into your hobby. My wife doesn't share my passion with me, so I look for people who do. It's always nice to meet somebody at a bar and talk about watches (cars, art, electronics, politics etc). Like that we feel less outside and more normal. It's not really bad influence. If somebody doesn't like watches, they don't. If somebody is interested then it good influence to provide accurate, well processed information, so the friends and colleagues of ours don't end up with Vinceros and Fillipo Lorettis on their wrists. 

im so very excited to hear those sentence "hey i need a new watch, could you help me?" absolutely my man. consider myself being helpful 😂

Great job my friend, you have just made our community larger.

I also once show my watch to a collegue of my GF and he told me that he had eyes on Moonswatch - I insist that before pulling the trigger, I could lend him a watch or two so he can decide the first watch as he like.

A week later, he showed up with the 5KX that I wore that day. I tried to calm him down about buying another watch.. And you know what, 3 days later he came with another one, and another one.

I think he has collected 4-5 watches in a month. So.. yeah, another friend I can borrow watches 😜😜😜

Yeah I’m trying to get my older brother to get back in the game but he’s frugal asf..anyways lately he’s been sending me photos of watches he’s been encountering during his travels so I decided for his birthday to give him my Seiko Gmt and he chose the blue one…well always planned to give my GMt‘s as present anyway plus at least I hope it will be worn more than just sit inside the watchbox also he’ll like the gmt complication since he loves to travel. He was originally that got me into watches he had a nice collection before but his house was burglarized and took all his watches since then he never purchased watches as much as he used too..ok enough sad story but yes we influence each other no matter what it might be and that’s part of life…the gMT he chose…

To add new watch bros and sis, get them Seiko 5 GMTs, blue dial. Got it.  

Thanks for tip! 🍻

Have no friends+Making friend (by force) =

Everyone in my circle knows I have a watch addiction. And they're all curious and I'm trying to convince all of them that Apple watches aren't as good as mechanical watches it's a losing effort tho

Watches are such a subjective and personal thing that I avoid recommendations, except in drastic cases. ("No, the Invicta Bolt probably won't look great on your 6'' wrist.") I generally avoid watch recommendations like the plague.  I might "suggest" looking at a number of offerings, but I would never recommend a specific watch.

I would never encourage anyone to get a mechanical watch, unless they wanted a vintage handwinder. I'll also be sad when people get rid of their car they've had for 15+ years with 250K+ miles on the clock. I'm very anti-consumerist.

I think we can all agree that WC is a beautiful circle of enablers.

That’s what friends are for. If you can’t hold on to money because of your watch habits, make sure you spread the craziness to your  friends to it make you feel better. Like the little red 😈 on the shoulder. Good job 👏 

Predictably - I am the worst. You want x, but you need to consider a - w and then we can start thinking about x…

Same

Bring him over here 😁

I'm so happy to find a community that thinks like me. You have done your civic duty to land and expand. I have opened my nephew up to a few new pieces and I NEVER say a new watch is a bad idea.... 😉

I hear you on that!

Yes - our little Watch Crew has been heavily influenced by my continuous stream of daily wrist checks and sending them articles, images and ads.

I think a few watchboxes have been filled over the past two years from my nefarious daily activity 😉

I have a buddy that started out collecting watches. Im already ahead of the game he send me one as a gift and I almost felt insulted once I got it and kept to myself and I still have to dam thing is ugly! Its a fashion brand called American Exchange 20 dollars in Macys and you get a bracelet with that. So I told him send me a picture of his collection he has about 7-8 watches. All cheap no name fashion brands he bragged about these watches like they some high end. He coming down here in two weeks. I got some extra good watches to get him started like Casio and Citizen eco-drive. He gave me straight up advice about men's cologne taught me well. So I do this in return. I'm trying not to be snobbish but the poor guy gotta learn he does not know nothing about automatic, manual, nor chronograph. He's straight up quartz nothing wrong with that. I believe this will open the Pandora's box. I will have a post about this next month.

@hakki501 is my bad influence. But he's also a great strap donor😎

When officemates seek my opinion, the honest ex-salesman in me comes out and we do a wants/needs analysis first then go through options based on their budget. Funny though that some think I'm trying to sell them one of mine hehe.

Hehehe... And, as Jody always says, "You don't have to spend a fortune to spice up your collection."

This brown NATO leatherette strap you gave me @litoben, is so cool and comfortable! Thanks!! 🍻