Hypothetically speaking.............

pitpro

she doesn't have my password
or my thumbprint

Archer

I find this whole discussion sort of strange....I know people joke about this on watch forums all the time, and I really do hope they are just jokes.

I don't need to ask permission before buying anything, but I certainly let my wife know. She is happy if I'm happy, and vice versa, so if she wants something (which isn't that often really) I have no problem with it and she has no problem with me buying watches. Of course I don't have the number of watches some of you have here, so that might be a key difference.

I guess I have an aversion to keeping secrets like this, because I've seen it destroy marriages in the past - a good example being my wife's parents. When we would visit them in Australia, my wife and her mother would go out for the day "shopping" while her father and I had a "beer or two" watching cricket or something.

I guess whatever works for you guys, but hiding this stuff doesn't really sit well with me.

Cheers, Al

cicindela

Yes Al, it is 99% jokes. My wife has a list of every watch I own, what I paid for it and a approximation of what is worth today; so that if anything happened to me, she would know what to do.
She also has 2 "go to WIS's" to contact to help her liquidate. (the positions are filled guys, forget it)

Come on, by this time you know how we roll here 😁

Mothra

Al, like Steve I have a contact in outlook on a shared pc for each of my watches with the history, what I paid, when it was serviced and what I think its worth in case I get hit by a truck tomorrow. also make a point of showing Mrs mothra each new watch and although she sometimes rolls her eyes she know they are making me happy, while taking up a lot less room than motorbikes....

Privateday7

My wife knows all of my watches (she gave up try to restrain me... in fact she hijacked few of them). I made the list of my watches and track their price occasionally. However your practice of share the list with your wife plus let her know how to liquidate them is remarkable and necessary.👍