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··Purple Monkey DishwasherTraveling through Switzerland with the family on holiday and my wife expects I will buy a watch “since you’re here.”
If I were looking for a retail shopping experience with all the major Swiss brands, there is certainly plenty of opportunity. But my current watch collecting interest lay with unique or unusual finds, so I’m more focused on vintage or modern but discontinued items.
I have contemplated purchasing something relatively inexpensive just as a symbolic memento from my trip, including nosing through a Swatch store, but that’s at odds with my aversion to impulse buying.
I also wondered, before arriving, whether Switzerland would have a thriving vintage or second hand watch market with interesting dealers off the beaten path, but I have yet to discover those.
With a few days left of our trip, I’m keeping my eyes and heart open for a serendipitous watch discovery, but nothing so far.
I will say it has been nice to see certain currently manufacture watches in the flesh that I would otherwise rarely come across like the Moser Streamliner, a Reverso tourbillon, and the new Land Dweller, so it has still satisfied my general watch curiosity. Just not the element of surprise in finding unexpected or unusual watches for purchase.
If I were looking for a retail shopping experience with all the major Swiss brands, there is certainly plenty of opportunity. But my current watch collecting interest lay with unique or unusual finds, so I’m more focused on vintage or modern but discontinued items.
I have contemplated purchasing something relatively inexpensive just as a symbolic memento from my trip, including nosing through a Swatch store, but that’s at odds with my aversion to impulse buying.
I also wondered, before arriving, whether Switzerland would have a thriving vintage or second hand watch market with interesting dealers off the beaten path, but I have yet to discover those.
With a few days left of our trip, I’m keeping my eyes and heart open for a serendipitous watch discovery, but nothing so far.
I will say it has been nice to see certain currently manufacture watches in the flesh that I would otherwise rarely come across like the Moser Streamliner, a Reverso tourbillon, and the new Land Dweller, so it has still satisfied my general watch curiosity. Just not the element of surprise in finding unexpected or unusual watches for purchase.
