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·I wonder if other members experience this. Do you buy a watch for all the right reasons, and when it arrives you spend plenty of time admiring it, but then you put it away and don’t actually wear it for a while?
I’m not talking about safe queens. I have neither the patience nor the finances for those. I only buy watches that interest me and that I would wear.
But I do have a small number of watches that fall into this category. And it’s more or less a procrastination issue.
Here’s an example.
I bought this at the post-covid collapse of the watch market bubble. I was totally intrigued by its design and engineering. And in those specific market conditions, I came across one at a surprisingly good price.
So I did what every red blooded watch collector does late at night after one or possibly two glasses of wine. I pulled the trigger.
It arrived, and I was over the moon. So light, so thin, so weird. I loved the concept of the peripheral rotor and its platinum bonus.
So what the procrastination? The reasons are varied and usually stupid. In this case there were two.
1. I was paranoid it was an impulse buy. But it was still under warranty, so if I woke up one night in a cold sweat realizing I made a terrible decision, I was confident I could sell it off and get most of my money back.
2. It came in unworn condition so the bracelet needed resizing. But I was a novice collector at the time and had neither the tools nor the confidence to resize it.
But now, after a tough week at work, I decided you only live once.
The resizing experience is for another post. And I do think I will post, because researching how to resize this bracelet didn’t yield satisfactory results, so I think if I can contribute anything, it’s my experience resizing the bracelet.
But for now I have a “new” watch I can wear. The question is, when and where will I wear it?
I’m not talking about safe queens. I have neither the patience nor the finances for those. I only buy watches that interest me and that I would wear.
But I do have a small number of watches that fall into this category. And it’s more or less a procrastination issue.
Here’s an example.
I bought this at the post-covid collapse of the watch market bubble. I was totally intrigued by its design and engineering. And in those specific market conditions, I came across one at a surprisingly good price.
So I did what every red blooded watch collector does late at night after one or possibly two glasses of wine. I pulled the trigger.
It arrived, and I was over the moon. So light, so thin, so weird. I loved the concept of the peripheral rotor and its platinum bonus.
So what the procrastination? The reasons are varied and usually stupid. In this case there were two.
1. I was paranoid it was an impulse buy. But it was still under warranty, so if I woke up one night in a cold sweat realizing I made a terrible decision, I was confident I could sell it off and get most of my money back.
2. It came in unworn condition so the bracelet needed resizing. But I was a novice collector at the time and had neither the tools nor the confidence to resize it.
But now, after a tough week at work, I decided you only live once.
The resizing experience is for another post. And I do think I will post, because researching how to resize this bracelet didn’t yield satisfactory results, so I think if I can contribute anything, it’s my experience resizing the bracelet.
But for now I have a “new” watch I can wear. The question is, when and where will I wear it?
