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Foxy100
·My first proper watch was a 2531.80 I bought when I worked on a car magazine in the late 1990s. A couple of other people there had one and it looked significantly cooler than my older and much smaller TAG 200 diver. I bought my Seamaster second hand for £400 deposit and £400 interest-free for 10 months (car magazines don't pay much in wages!). Here it is in 2002 or so with me lapping the Nurburgring (I was en route to the Frankfurt motor show and thought I'd be silly and take a Citroen C3 diesel - an epic trip! It's also the only old photo I can find of the watch).
I wore the watch every day for 10 years until I wandered into a shop in 2008 and bought a Rolex GMT2c (that good old interest-free credit again!) and the Seamaster was relegated to a drawer. The Rolex went a few years later to pay a car restoration bill and I've had a fair few watches, now on 30 or so, mostly bought before vintage watch prices went nuts. I had the Seamaster serviced by Omega six years ago but haven't bothered finding a half link to make the bracelet fit properly. I suspect I can't be bothered because I know it's the one watch I could sell everything else and keep. I can wear it in water, the lume works (I wish it were Tritium but like the practicality of Superluminova although I have wondered about having it relumed by James Hyman with some aged but working lume - would that be a travesty if I'm never going to sell it?), the bezel times my coffee, and best of all, it looks great on a sand NATO worn with the hardware round the back.
Do you have a watch you already own you could sell everything else (assuming, that is, you have more than one watch!) and wear happily for the rest of your life?
I wore the watch every day for 10 years until I wandered into a shop in 2008 and bought a Rolex GMT2c (that good old interest-free credit again!) and the Seamaster was relegated to a drawer. The Rolex went a few years later to pay a car restoration bill and I've had a fair few watches, now on 30 or so, mostly bought before vintage watch prices went nuts. I had the Seamaster serviced by Omega six years ago but haven't bothered finding a half link to make the bracelet fit properly. I suspect I can't be bothered because I know it's the one watch I could sell everything else and keep. I can wear it in water, the lume works (I wish it were Tritium but like the practicality of Superluminova although I have wondered about having it relumed by James Hyman with some aged but working lume - would that be a travesty if I'm never going to sell it?), the bezel times my coffee, and best of all, it looks great on a sand NATO worn with the hardware round the back.
Do you have a watch you already own you could sell everything else (assuming, that is, you have more than one watch!) and wear happily for the rest of your life?
