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Alex Cheers
路路wtb a Gemini 4One theory I have - is to sell a watch at the time and then, together with my wife, go to the country/city where the buyer is. To deliver the watch, meet people and enjoy new places.
At what point did you - or will you - scale back or sell your collection?
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Doc Savage
路I'm late to this party, but I'll play...
Last year I decided the uncontrolled buying was getting out of hand, so I decided to stop all purchases. I have come to realize buying just to own isn't good for me, and I have dozens of watches I hardly ever wear.
Like many of you, I have a secret desire to become a one watch guy, but variety is too much fun. However, I plan on selling 5-10 watches a year until I get down to fewer than 10 total in my collection. That will take a while, but I really want to enjoy the watches I wear most often and get rid of the ones I don't. My 2254 has become my daily driver since I got it, but the Explorer I and AT 41 get some decent wrist time. A few more have sentimental value, but that's it. The rest of them are beautiful, but they rarely see the light of day.
Last year I decided the uncontrolled buying was getting out of hand, so I decided to stop all purchases. I have come to realize buying just to own isn't good for me, and I have dozens of watches I hardly ever wear.
Like many of you, I have a secret desire to become a one watch guy, but variety is too much fun. However, I plan on selling 5-10 watches a year until I get down to fewer than 10 total in my collection. That will take a while, but I really want to enjoy the watches I wear most often and get rid of the ones I don't. My 2254 has become my daily driver since I got it, but the Explorer I and AT 41 get some decent wrist time. A few more have sentimental value, but that's it. The rest of them are beautiful, but they rarely see the light of day.
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EuroDriver
路I'm somewhere in the over the hill, downward slope - except I skipped 4: I'd never buy one
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Dan S
路I'm somewhere in the over the hill, downward slope - except I skipped 4: I'd never buy one
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EuroDriver
路Yours might be a little more accurate 馃槈
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EuroDriver
路Personally, I began the curve with Bulova (I believed them to be somewhat luxury back in the day). I don't think I had ever bought a Seiko until fairly recently. I was surprised how much I liked it! I wonder if the price point had anything to do with that - psychologically.
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pdxleaf
路Replace Seiko with Hamilton
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hen
路I retired from my corporate life about 10 yrs ago. I own a small online retail business and still consult a bit when asked, and COVID killed most of the various charity and civic orgs I was a part of as they mostly all meet virtually now. The only problem with this new world order is that I rarely have occasion to wear a watch. It's sad to look at those little fellows with no real purpose anymore. I very much miss wearing them but can't justify just bouncing around the house with them. I really should sell them but each has their own story, and how could anyone new appreciate the life they've led? The mountains and ships and foreign lands, many have been around the world. Oh sigh, so many things around here should go but I can't bring myself to do it!
This is just sad, why do you need an occasion? You are the occasion, wind them, wipe them with a cloth and watch how they blink in the sun just for you. Enjoy the memories of getting the watch and the people you met getting it. Change the watch in the middle of the day and do it all over again.
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BrokenSkunk
路I don't see the need to sell my collection when I retire. It's a few years away, I'm 54 and I have a couple of mortgages to clear and a shed load of house renovations to get done and paid for before I can even consider quitting work. Maybe in five years. But that's what I've been saying for the last three or four years!
Retirement should be comfortable. I should have enough to keep collecting, although I will need to tame my spending a bit. I don't buy high end stuff anyway. I've never spent a month's income on a single watch.
When I go - hopefully no time soon - I should still have forty or fifty something watches. My plan is to let friends and family choose one watch to remember me by. The only stipulation is that they keep it, not sell it. If there's nothing they want to keep and wear, then please don't take one. I don't plan to leave details of what is and isn't valuable, they should choose what they like.
Whilst we're on the subject of shuffling off, my favoUrite tune has always been Popcorn by the masters of Moog that were Perry and Kingsley. I'd like that played whilst the final curtain closes in the crematorium and I've like my coffin filled with corn kernals, so I get to go out with a bang.
Retirement should be comfortable. I should have enough to keep collecting, although I will need to tame my spending a bit. I don't buy high end stuff anyway. I've never spent a month's income on a single watch.
When I go - hopefully no time soon - I should still have forty or fifty something watches. My plan is to let friends and family choose one watch to remember me by. The only stipulation is that they keep it, not sell it. If there's nothing they want to keep and wear, then please don't take one. I don't plan to leave details of what is and isn't valuable, they should choose what they like.
Whilst we're on the subject of shuffling off, my favoUrite tune has always been Popcorn by the masters of Moog that were Perry and Kingsley. I'd like that played whilst the final curtain closes in the crematorium and I've like my coffin filled with corn kernals, so I get to go out with a bang.
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KeyWestPaw
路this year, I started slowing the 1-2 per month collecting that I have been doing for many years.
I think I have bought nearly every mid priced (2-12k) watches that I have ever wanted and sold most of them, keeping a handful (12) of watches that go into a safe and another 40 or 50 that are in 2 displays, mostly vintage stuff, like 70's Seiko autos, digital casios, my original swatches, etc.
I have been slowly selling off the more expensive stuff, and not replacing them, like I used to (was 1 out, 3 in)...
I think I just don't get the same (short term) love affair with new pieces anymore so this helped stop impulse buying. I'm appreciating the pieces I truly love and don't feel the need to keep buying so many. maybe its age and the need to put more funds elsewhere.
this is the first time in many years that I felt that I was slowing and being satisfied.
I'm gonna sell off 5 or 6 more of the more expensive ones, and keep a small collection of Omegas and a Breitling as well as the old stuff that I think look cool in a standing 30 watch display case...
thanks for letting me vent... i feel better!
I think I have bought nearly every mid priced (2-12k) watches that I have ever wanted and sold most of them, keeping a handful (12) of watches that go into a safe and another 40 or 50 that are in 2 displays, mostly vintage stuff, like 70's Seiko autos, digital casios, my original swatches, etc.
I have been slowly selling off the more expensive stuff, and not replacing them, like I used to (was 1 out, 3 in)...
I think I just don't get the same (short term) love affair with new pieces anymore so this helped stop impulse buying. I'm appreciating the pieces I truly love and don't feel the need to keep buying so many. maybe its age and the need to put more funds elsewhere.
this is the first time in many years that I felt that I was slowing and being satisfied.
I'm gonna sell off 5 or 6 more of the more expensive ones, and keep a small collection of Omegas and a Breitling as well as the old stuff that I think look cool in a standing 30 watch display case...
thanks for letting me vent... i feel better!
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TIMElyBehaviour
路I have read the thread up to here so I鈥檒l bite.
my collection is made up of vintage and modern with a vintage twist. I have about 28 watches from a reverso to a raketa. I have about 5 that I plan on selling as I have no feelings for them and don鈥檛 wear them at all.
I have a few that the kids have called dibs on and I have a bunch that when I fall out of love with I will swap them out or condense a few, turn 3 into 1.
But right now it鈥檚 enjoyment time. I want to appreciate all of them for what they are.
my collection is made up of vintage and modern with a vintage twist. I have about 28 watches from a reverso to a raketa. I have about 5 that I plan on selling as I have no feelings for them and don鈥檛 wear them at all.
I have a few that the kids have called dibs on and I have a bunch that when I fall out of love with I will swap them out or condense a few, turn 3 into 1.
But right now it鈥檚 enjoyment time. I want to appreciate all of them for what they are.
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TIMElyBehaviour
路One thing I can say though, I did care a lot about what people thought early on in collecting. After a 10 year fall down the rabbit hole, I can say without a doubt that I could not give a rat鈥檚 Ringhole about what others think of what I own.
It has to make me the owner happy. And, well it does
It has to make me the owner happy. And, well it does
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Dbltap
路I'm late to this party, but I'll play...
Last year I decided the uncontrolled buying was getting out of hand, so I decided to stop all purchases. I have come to realize buying just to own isn't good for me, and I have dozens of watches I hardly ever wear.
Like many of you, I have a secret desire to become a one watch guy, but variety is too much fun. However, I plan on selling 5-10 watches a year until I get down to fewer than 10 total in my collection. That will take a while, but I really want to enjoy the watches I wear most often and get rid of the ones I don't. My 2254 has become my daily driver since I got it, but the Explorer I and AT 41 get some decent wrist time. A few more have sentimental value, but that's it. The rest of them are beautiful, but they rarely see the light of day.[/QUOTEc
I couldn鈥檛 agree more. I鈥檓 bipolar when it comes to my collection. I want to be a OWG. But dang if each one doesn鈥檛 serve a purpose. That being said, the ones that don鈥檛 come out of the case often are subject to deletion.
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spacemission
路I don't care because I don't sell watches.
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Jakeys
路I don't buy many, I'm averaging about one every 5-10 years so far. Each gets considered for a long time and has to do something for me the others can't, so by the time I get it, I'm pretty sure I'll keep it for the long term. Plus, the last few I've purchased coincide with big life events or stages, so that's a factor in not selling them too.
The question I ask myself now looking at new models is, when would I want to wear this watch that I wouldn't want to wear one of my existing watches? That kills about 90% of watches I look at.
The question I ask myself now looking at new models is, when would I want to wear this watch that I wouldn't want to wear one of my existing watches? That kills about 90% of watches I look at.
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KeyWestPaw
路update, im broke, scaling back, anyone wanna but a watch?
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padders
路路Oooo subtitles!Hardly scaling back I guess, but to fund my new FOIS2, I have sold my SMP 300m Black dial (the current 42mm one) and also my FOIS1 since the overlap there was too much. I still have another 25 watches to cuddle during the long winter nights, but I do regret letting some go in the past. Flipping is a double edged sword...
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