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What would you tell yourself?

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If you could go back to the begining of your watch collecting journey what watch would you recommend to yourself?

For me it would be the archimede outdoor. I picked a used one up a couple of months ago and it's fast become my favourite watch

What would yours be?
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Re: What would you tell yourself?

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To buy a Grand Seiko
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Stop spending on flippers and save for the SMPc sooner/quicker.
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Re: What would you tell yourself?

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I would tell myself to buy one good allrounder and off the top of my head explorer, 5 digit explorer ii or little LLD and then never ever get involved in watch forums.
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Crack on, fill your boots and enjoy yourself :thumbup:
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To stay clear of expensive watches and watch forums.
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Buy a Moonwatch before anything else.

Then buy 2 x Speedmaster Apollo 13 Silver Snoopy Award watch when they were at £6k each. Keep 1 and sell the other at the current £20k, buy an Explorer and previous model Explorer II with the profit.
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If I was telling myself how to build a collection in a slightly different manner (as opposed to telling myself “don’t get into watch collecting, just stick to three or four watches and call it quits”) I would say:

Don’t get swept along by a forum community and waste money buying watches that with hindsight you will hardly wear. Stick to watches for the long term, where the cost of service every 7-10 years is not disproportionate to the value of the watch. Any more than about 12-15 watches is pointless.

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I think now that I would buy fewer watches, of better quality. I miss my Rolex GMT Master terribly, but lack funds to get another. So for me, I would get the Speedmaster much earlier than I did, along with a G-Shock for work, and a Marathon Navigator for low-light and dark.

Exempting my two heirloom watches (Gallet Multichron Pilot and 1951 Rolex OP), the three above are my normal wear watches. The rest I could let go if needed, and I would miss some of them, but I would live.

I am glad things have played out the way they have, though. I have met some people on the way who I like, and had adventures too.
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I wouldn’t deviate much from my start ( Hamilton to Steinhart to CW), but would have told myself stop at the C60 instead of buying so many affordables. Instead a younger Viognier should keep his C60 and save for a marquee watch.

Hindsight is an exact science....

Candidly, I learned by buying and wearing those many watches, that I could get to where I am now to offer myself that advice 7 years ago!!
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Probably have a smaller collection but more quality....maybe, the contradiction is I love all my watches even if I don’t wear them regularly.
I am just a bargain hunter in reality, I can afford expensive watches but can’t justify the outlay.
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Re: What would you tell yourself?

Post by Bahnstormer_vRS »

Apologies Niel, can't do it.

The (my) watch collecting journey, with all the twists and turns of buying and selling, along with changes of financial and personal circumstances along the way, is what has shaped my collection into what it is now.

I can't turn the clock back on that (pun intended).

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Re: What would you tell yourself?

Post by Amor Vincit Omnia »

Fascinating topic.

Having been a member of the forum and interested in watches for quite a few years now, my views have changed, as have my knowledge and understanding.

Back then I had been effectively a single watch wearer for 15 years (quartz Omega Polaris).

I knew very little about watches except that I liked them. I knew what was in the shop windows and I realised vaguely that there were watches and brands out there beyond the orbit of Rolex &c. though I would have been hard put to it to name them. I knew that I liked Cartier. I think I was aware that mechanical watches were still made but thought of them as the preserve of a bunch of diehard weirdos (nothing new there :lol: )

I knew what a chronograph was, and a dive watch, but not a flieger. I knew my Omega was lumed but didn’t realise that people wrote essays about the stuff.

I might have gone blithely along in ignorance except for a chance online discovery of CW and a very spontaneous purchase of a 1961 Omega.

With hindsight, I still can’t say what I would have done or told myself to do differently, though I could certainly see myself aiming for the essential 3-watch collection of Speedy, Tank and Explorer. Still haven’t made up my mind about the third of these.

One thing I do know for certain is that I now have more watches than I care to wear, but because of the nature of the watches and the saturation of the market they are not proving an easy prospect to move. I have at least the consolation that they are nice to wear occasionally and are not tying up too much in the way of funds.

And I will always be glad that I picked up the knowledge on the way.
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Re: What would you tell yourself?

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Remus wrote:Stop spending on flippers and save for the SMPc sooner/quicker.
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Re: What would you tell yourself?

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The same as many of you - steer clear of watch forums