My wife's little watch collection

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GuiltyGear

·Jan 24, 2026

She is proud of her small collection and watching me browse the forum, wanted me to share. Just a few years ago she'd have at most a fitness tracker or a smartwatch. Nowadays she's wearing a watch 24/7. I think I did well and proud of her.

Her taste is specific. Both the PRX and the Zenith Pilot were anniversary gifts. The 165.008 she saw in my watch drawer and liked it for herself 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

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Spruce

·Jan 24, 2026·Sunburst dial fan

Mrs Spruce always wears a Longines Dolce Vita.
One is the stainless steel version and the other is gold/stainless steel.
Like Mrs GG, she knows what she likes.

 

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Duracuir1

·Jan 24, 2026·Never Used A Kodak

Nice! My wife has more watches than me. But she has no clue about the brands. But she knows the Steve Austin watch.

https://omegaforums.net/posts/1876067/

Duracuir1 · Oct 24, 2021

Her collection is pretty nice! Only the Tudor needs help. @Canuck will tell me if it’s worth fixing. Photos got shuffled, so this can be a Sunday puzzle for you!

Any photos of YOH’s watch(es)?

 

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Pastorbottle

·Jan 24, 2026

Lesley has a watch box full, I gave her a nice wooden display box, probably be around 20 or so. in there..........I must be a bad influence
But she only ever seems to wear a damned Apple watch......she's always buggerising about with the stupid thing

 

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Larry S

·Jan 25, 2026·Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.

I bought the wife an Ebel Quartz dress watch from my watchmaker. She wears it on dressy occasions. Her main source of time keeping is her “pocket watch” (IPhone).

 

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Dan S

·Jan 25, 2026

My wife has a handful of watches. The star of the show is the diamond-bezel MOP Speedmaster that she received from a previous employer for being a top performer. I've also given her a few watches including a nice black 2639 that she really appreciates and wears often. She wanted a men's Rolex at one point, so I got her an Air-King. Unfortunately, she never wears it, so that was a lesson learned. She also claimed a couple of entry-level watches that I foolishly mentioned I was going to sell at various times, a Helbros skin-diver and an obscure French Valjoux 7730 chronograph with a nice panda dial.

I would like to sell that Air-King, but it's a delicate situation.

 

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Felix_La_PuBelle

·Mar 14, 2026

My wife’s watches. All gifts from me. The IWC was the first one when she decided she was a little bored with her iWatch and wanted something she could flex in business meetings to silence the good old boys club at work.

Her only rule for me buying her watches is “no dainty watches.”

 

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liquidsongbird

·Mar 14, 2026

My wife loves the 34mm size as well. Despite being very petite she wears a Rolex Precision and a gold capped Pie Pan regularly.

 

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Canuck

·Mar 14, 2026

I’ve shown “her” watches here, many times before. The oldest is an early 20th century Elgin 6-size Hunter model (from her late maternal grandmother) in a 4 colour gold case, a 1929 Mars art deco wrist watch that my late father gave his mother, several quartz ones, a nursing one she bought herself when she graduated as a nurse in 1962, three karat gold Omegas (one NOS) I’ve given her over decades, and assorted others, too numerous to enumerate. But her favourite (not mine), is one I gave her 35 years ago. This is (and has been) her go to watch since when I gave it to her. Oyster Perpetual, steel case and Oyster bracelet.

 

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Erik_H

·Mar 14, 2026

Canuck

… a nursing one she bought herself when she graduated as a nurse in 1962…

As I am doing quality management for a big group of nursing homes I know about nurses watches in the past. These days no one wears them, even though they would be useful. Do you mind sharing what watch she was wearing after graduation? An upside down one?

 

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Canuck

·Mar 14, 2026

Erik_H

As I am doing quality management for a big group of nursing homes I know about nurses watches in the past. These days no one wears them, even though they would be useful. Do you mind sharing what watch she was wearing after graduation? An upside down one?

It was a water resistant manual winder wrist watch in a chrome case, round face, with a sweep seconds hand. A $35.00 Rodania on an expansion bracelet. She wore that watch as her nurse’s watch for years after we married. At graduation, she only knew of one nurse at the time that had a “pin on” upside down nurse’s (lapel type) watch. She used her Rolex for the last 7 years of her nursing career. She still has the Rodania.

 

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Donerix

·Mar 14, 2026

I got this for the lady of the house in January and she loves it. B&M Riviera blue in 34mm

 

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GuiltyGear

·Mar 20, 2026

Listened to @Spruce and got this small Dolce Vita. She loved it.

 

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liquidsongbird

·Mar 20, 2026

Nice. Reminds me of a baume mercier I bought a long time ago for my wife before her current Cartier.