How often do you buy a watch? And does the budget increase ever so slightly, everytime!? :)

I was beginning to feel like the watch hobby is just retail therapy. Like each purchase was "Oooh! Another shiny present to myself." So I didn't buy any watches in 2023. I did buy around a dozen straps though. 🙄

I hadn’t bought any in a few years. Stopped wearing my Apple Watch earlier this year and have bought 6 watches since with one on preorder due in January! That’s gonna be it for awhile.

I've made a purchase roughly once every 6 months, though I am happy where I am for now

No price correlation, have been up and down

We dont ask that here.

Just kidding but it depends, id say usually one a month but i also sell regularly. Just this year i sold over 40 watches. 😅

No idea, something I decided not to monitor....

This probably means an alarming amount of watches!! ;)

Yes but I only count up to 7 😁👍🏻

Too. I buy a watch too often. 🤣

I Started collecting in June and I'm already up to 6 automatics and 2 quartz's lol I'm tapping the brakes though because they haven't been super expensive and moving forward I plan to space out my purchases and make the most of the room I have

For me it depends. I love a good sale. Got a few during the 11.11 sale. Now is always good too. Discount codes are higher. Lol. I have a mental list and it helps to be on the look out for a great deal. Like this spec monster:

Titanium? Sapphire? Full bracelet? Under $140?

I don’t need another watch, but…lol

No joke I went on a manic episode and bought about 100 in 3 years. Mostly Timex, so I didn't have to lose my house. To be fair a lot of them were very inexpensive and I used them for display to fill the cabinets in my mini Watch (Timex) Museum. I do have an exit watch that I will probably buy at some point (soon). It is the Times Galli S2, it is the first Swiss made Timex and costs $975 (the most expensive Timex to date).

I know my budget limits. Good to have some controls in place. Car payment or new watch? Mortgage or watch? Kid’s college fund or new watch? Not a good road…so depends on your lifestyle and what you like. Judge wisely.

I spend about $60 a month on watch parts. Eventually that leads to a new watch. Me actually buying a new watch is a very infrequent event. If my financial advisor hadn't called me a cheapskate, i wouldn't have bought that Hanhart.

Typically I buy 2 watches a year. One more expensive/luxury watch that goes in the permanent collection. One less expensive watch that is goes in a smaller, rotating collection. I often give away the less expensive watches.

I now have 7 watches in my permanent collection. There has been a slight upward trend but I have a hard cap on what I am willing to spend (10K) that I am not willing to go over.

I bought 5 last month 🤦😂

I might go for months and don't buy any watches. I have bought several this year in just the last 3 months. Most are very inexpensive Casio's and some inexpensive AliExpress watches. I have reached the point where I started to sell some.

I have no clue about a buying schedule. When I see it I know if the time is right for purchase.

I told myself that 2022 was my last year of buying watches. I have 5 more this year. I am going to be broke pretty soon. There is no set budget, if I can afford it and absolutely love it, I will buy it. 2023 is my last year of buying watches.

So I'll ask you where is the best place to sell?

Me too!

I wore an Apple Watch for about a year and a half straight. Fell in love with watches around late May, early June. I currently have 16 watch purchases so far. One more arriving sometime this month. And wife and kids got me some for Christmas (3 more).

Usually ebay or chrono24, i also sell alot in facebook groups or dedicated watch forums, that way you can cut out the middle man :)

Wait... are we... not doing retail therapy? 😂

Man….i bought 3 watches during Black Friday, that’s the most I’ve ever. I returned two of them though. This year, it’s been 1 watch per month. I do need to slow down. 🤣😂

Great choice! Still trying to find your channel tho😁

Not up yet. I have Covid-19 of all things right now.

A few years back, it was a bit unhealthy with 5-10 watches a year.

Thankfully I’ve consolidated and mostly purchase 1-2 watches a year. Trying to keep to a 2-watch collection but I’m at 6 watches again now… gotta move some on.

In the beginning 2 - 3 per month. Currently 1 per month. I did slow down to 1 every 3 months once i got more expensive pieces, to allow the funds to recover. The prices aren't consistent and it varies what i end up getting next but my price cap and comfort zone definitely went way up. I used to think 200 usd was quite enough to spend on a watch. 🤪

Mine certainly has gone up..I tend to look at pieces in the 3k-6k range and the prices are going up..LOL

It is very much in fits and starts. For awhile I would buy a watch now and then. Then around 2017 I stopped buying watches, and kind of lost interest. However, this summer I got a Raymond Weil back from my son that I had lent him, and found watchmaker to repair it and another watch that had stopped. Suddenly . . . I liked watches again and bought a Steinhart Metropole and a Cocktail time Seiko Presage. And to my surprise, my wife bought me another Cocktail time Seiko (Collect them all?). Long story short, now I am getting a second watch box, and eyeing a Longines Spirit.