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JwRosenthal
·I agree that we all have to start somewhere, but you can usually tell from someone’s collection what kind of interest they have in horology versus just jewelry...and this is costume jewelry.
Check out my friend's watch collection
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Uniqez
·Do you call him friend still? 😁
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Waltesefalcon
·a watch is a piece of jewelry, not a time-providing device any more.
I am sure that I am not the only one for whom a watch still serves as a functional timepiece. I never owned a wrist watch as an adult until I needed one for my job. I do agree with the rest of what you originally posted.
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asrnj77
·It's unfair to be so cynical - a watch is a piece of jewelry, not a time-providing device any more. One buys what one likes, and can afford, and what makes one feel good. Some folks get their kicks out of modern art, or classic art, which both have about the same functional quality as a watch - ie zero... If your friend likes Lacoste and fashion watches, and he's happy with what's in his watch box, then more power to him 👍 To each is own....
Sure. People can collect whatever they want. I’m sure there is somebody that collects Toyota Tercel’s from the early ‘90s but if somebody posts a picture of their collection on VintageMustangforums.net, people are going to chuckle. I believe the OP’s friend knows he’s being teased and probably isn’t broken up about it. In the WIS world people fret over a movement that you can’t even see or whether a dot that is half the size of a pin head is next to a 90 or above it and this guy likely matches the color of his watches with his outfit. No problem with that and I doubt he calls himself a collector. If the OP wants to mentor him more in the watch world and he’s on board all the better.
I don’t think money was necessarily the issue since some older Omegas and Seiko’s could be had for the same price.
On some forum maybe, Save-your-money-responsibly.com they’re laughing at us buying a beat-up watch with moldy non-glowing lume and a dented case for $18,000 and making fun of us. I’m ok with that 😉
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madjestikmoose
·MICHAEL KORS
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Walrus
·No invictas good start
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorI got shown a fishing mates collection of G-Shocks in a range of 7 different colours once.
Proud of punch he was.
Even had the ones that didn’t work anymore in the G-Shock shrine.
Proud of punch he was.
Even had the ones that didn’t work anymore in the G-Shock shrine.
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JwRosenthal
·MICHAEL KORS
His response was that if it made her happy and got her interested in the hobby, he didn’t care what it was.
She wore it and loved it. The following Xmas he got her a 70’s Tudor Princess date on jubilee...the Micheal Kors hasn’t been worn since.
We all gotta start somewhere.
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vintagemillenial
·He could sell them all and put the $75 towards a nice watch
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zinengineer
·My buddy’s wife (who wears a fit-bit or looks at her phone to tell time) wanted to get a nice watch after sitting in on all the Saturday night watch talk we would have at his house. She sent him the link to a Michael Kors watch she liked online. I expressed outrage “are you really gonna buy her that POS?!?!”😲
His response was that if it made her happy and got her interested in the hobby, he didn’t care what it was.
She wore it and loved it. The following Xmas he got her a 70’s Tudor Princess date on jubilee...the Micheal Kors hasn’t been worn since.
We all gotta start somewhere.
happy wife; happy life. Mrs Zin noticed a quartz watch (don’t even remember the brand) she liked on Massdrop, $130 later she’s a happy camper; wears it most days to work.
She is however, still pulling for the chocolate Deville Tresor (still a quartz, although Omega)
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kip595
·I am sure that I am not the only one for whom a watch still serves as a functional timepiece. I never owned a wrist watch as an adult until I needed one for my job. I do agree with the rest of what you originally posted.
100% Agree. I've worn or carried a watch of some sort pretty much every single day since I was a kid. I was definitely born in the wrong decade, but w/o a proper watch, be it wrist or pocket, I genuinely get anxious. For me, a phone/computer/wall clock/position of the sun just doesn't work. Of course, maybe I'm just crazy....
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Walrus
·100% Agree. I've worn or carried a watch of some sort pretty much every single day since I was a kid. I was definitely born in the wrong decade, but w/o a proper watch, be it wrist or pocket, I genuinely get anxious. For me, a phone/computer/wall clock/position of the sun just doesn't work. Of course, maybe I'm just crazy....
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