jkbarnes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:08 pm
kiter65 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:30 pm
Buying, owning and selling watches, for me is all part of this mad hobby
I think this is a critically important point, and illustrates the key difference between someone who has a couple of watches versus someone who collects watches. I have six watches, but I’m never on the hunt for “just one more,” nor have I ever flipped a watch. I can’t imagine I ever would. Consequently, I’d never call myself a collector. I get the thrill of the hunt, though. I’d probably be a collector if I could afford it!
Interesting points from both of you. I collect (i.e. “accumulate”) stuff but I don’t “collect” it, if by the latter you understand that I mean cataloguing, curating and so on. I just like watches and wear them, and do a modicum of research on the bits that interest me.
Some people use apps and spreadsheets to track wear, market value and so on. Apart from knowing what I wore on a particular holiday, I haven’t a clue. Some use devices to monitor the precision and accuracy of their watches; I know the approximate rate and do a quick check against a time source. Some people have a record of every watch they’ve owned, where it came from, how much they bought it for, whom they sold it to, when, and for how much. I couldn’t begin to reconstruct such a list.
That’s why I’m not a true collector. I haven’t the discipline to do the routine stuff. I don’t have the collector mentality. I applaud those who do.
