G'day, y'all.
I'm Jon, an ex-pat Aussie now living in Texas. I work 9-5 for Big Blue as a systems admin, and moonlight as a track driving instructor on weekends.
When I was a kid, my Dad gave me his RAF navigators' chronometer - a Lemania single pusher - which I kept for several years, before, in the folly of youth, tossing it out when it stopped working. Still kicking myself for that, but it was the '70s and digital watches were the thing to have.
I had a series of cheap digitals for a few years after that, then eventually got myself a Seiko quartz Diver when I got my PADI certification, and wore that for many years.
I don't know what it was that made me suddenly become interested in nicer watches - perhaps it was a late midlife crisis - but abut three years ago I started wanting something nicer on my wrist. Still stuck in the Diver rut, I looked at Rolex Subs, but they really didn't do anything for me and instead I found myself drawn to the Seamaster. Eventually, while on vacation Down Under a couple of years ago, I took advantage of the exchange rate and picked one up for a few hundred dollars less than I would have paid here in the States.
That was the catalyst, and since then I've added a handful of other watches to accompany it, with the latest being a Speedmaster Tintin. It's only a small collection, and the two Omegas are the only ones that have cost more than a few hundred bucks, but each of them is different in its own way - I prefer variety over multiple examples of essentially the same thing. Each to his own.
That said, I would like to own a vintage Speedy one day - as someone who sat with my classmates huddled around a small B&W TV watching Neil Armstrong take that One Small Step, it holds a certain place in my heart. Tintin is nice, but vintage would be better.
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