rnaden
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A lot of thinking and digesting...
Mar 22, 2013,03:54 AM
A very well written and thought provoking article,Ping, and thanks for giving us all something to think about. Very often we get so engrossed in our collecting, admiration and purchases of our watches that we don't take the time to think about why and what speaks to us and end up, as you say, falling out of love with our purchases and let them go.
I've not been collecting watches for a long time, and I'm sure my 7 years or so pales in comparison with the experience of the many great people and collectors that I've met here, but I can say that I've not sold any of my purchases, nor do I intend to.
Your thoughts on loving a watch more with longer wear time does hold water to a certain extent, at least for me. I do tend to give a number of my watches equal amount of wrist time, but have been less than successful in that area, and what I do find is that it isn't my more expensive or "fancy" watches that get my automatic pick on a daily basis, but the more conservative ones - the ones that I know can be trusted, is reliable and one that won't annoy me by being a couple of minutes faster than my reference time when I pick it up to put it on. They're also the ones that won't demand attention when on the wrist and more likely than not, will not even get any comment on, unless it is another watch nut next to me.
If I had to pick and determine what stays and what goes, those that stay would definitely be the ones that:
1. Have a special connection to a person or occasion
2. Has been with me through the biggest "moments" of my life, be it wedding, crisis etc.
3. One that doesn't scream "rob me, please"
And certainly, my decisions to buy will never be because someone else said it needs to exist in my collection or because of a design trend or fad.
Thanks again for that great article and spinning the cogs of my mind on the whys and what's of what I do in this world of horology.
Richard