Funny thing about grails, when you finally do get one, another comes along and the quest continues!
"If I had this one, I'll never need another"
I said that with my first Swiss Army watch.
Same holds true with pocket knives, pens, etc. Seems that I'm more hoarder than collector 😀
WatchCo Seamaster 300 and Seamaster Professional 2254.50.00. The rest are nice and fun but not essential.
which question should i be asking?
Funny thing about grails, when you finally do get one, another comes along and the quest continues!
[...]And the real irony is none of my three kids are actually into watches!
I have three children and later in life would like to own three ‘great watches’ for them to inherit when i pass on.
Right now I have a birth year speedie which would be one of the final three and over a dozen ‘lesser watches’ that if I sold them all would cover two more at a similar value as my current speedmaster.
But I don’t plan on leaving this mortal world soon and in the mean time I get pleasure from choosing something different every day and moving on the watches that don’t get worn much. I like hanging out here, reading other peoples’ stories and questions, and picking up an interesting Valjoux 72 from the recommended eBay bargains thread.
If I was at the final three now I would not be able to sell them, and I would no longer have the daydream along the lines of “I can sell that and that and then buy that”.
And the real irony is none of my three kids are actually into watches! The things I fixate over would probably end up sitting in a bottom drawer until one day in the future one of them were to post “My father left my this old Omega......”
