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Watch collecting vs wife/girlfriend

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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
Watches are a part of my retirement planning. You cannot take anything with you in the end. When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling the collection bit by bit (dibs are accepted and noted from now on...) funding nice vacations in warmer places for me and the wife. As I have written elswhere on this site - funding getting silly drunk on grappa and eating fine ten course dinners in northern Italy is my plan for my watches in the end. Wearing a wrinkled up white linen suit and a Panama hat, smoking a fine cigar and pestering the young Italian guys with my anecdotes of what a Lemania Viggen costed in the beginning of the century.

I call dibs on some of those bikes!
 
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MikiJ MikiJ
Do tell: What one watch will you save as your everyday timepiece?

My white dial Explorer II on a (by then) reeeeaaaallllly stretched oyster bracelet. It will drive them Italians guys crazy... Thinking - "wonder if that old geezer know what it is worth..." and buying me alcohol to get me to loose my senses. I will drink them under the table and then leave them with the bill.
 
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trama trama
I call dibs on some of those bikes!
...well since the vultures are already starting to circle, this:

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...shameless, I know. 馃槜

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The wife once said I had to buy her shoes every time I bought a gun/watch/motorcycle.
I told her when she can sell a pair of shoes for more than she paid for them I would.
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
dibs are accepted and noted from now on...)

Dibs on the Joyeria Milos Polerouter and second dibs on the SAS after Dennis
 
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Severin Severin
A great yarn. There is, of course, the "open marriage" arrangement as in "don't ask, don't tell" re: watches, purses or shoes. Have never tried this, but hear it exists.

Either way, for me the awkward moment occurs when, during dinner, the inevitable words are uttered: "oh, hmmm, is that a new watch honey"? I've struggled with the semantics of the definition of "new" (does it apply to vintage?) but cannot stretch too far. Rathern that denial, my tactic has been prevention/security through obscurity: as in it helps to have long sleeves and/or, as in my situation, watches that all look alike...
I always tell the truth : " No, of course it's not a new watch ( thinking to myself it's 50/60/70 years old, ha!)... Seems to work for me, and my conscious is clear ... 馃檮
 
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Dibs on the Joyeria Milos Polerouter and second dibs on the SAS after Dennis

You dibsers are awere of it is ten years in advance dibsing? "When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling" 馃榾
 
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When I purchased my starter watch last January ( a reissued Carrera) she said "you paid $1000 for that!" Then the following May, I bought my first Omega, an orange Seamaster PO, and her eyes lit up, and she said ooo I like that one! Until she heard the price! Lol! She smiled and said "you earned it" In August I purchased my first vintage Omega, a 59 2872-3 Cal320 and she just couldn't understand why I spent good money on something so so old? So in December, when I snagged my Omega 165.024 Big Triangle (avatar pic) just before Christmas, she simply said OMG 馃え . . . Whatever makes you happy 馃憤 Here it is, a little more than a year later, and my 5th one should arrive by Monday ::psy:: she doesn't exactly know yet, and she may not even notice 馃槜 Here's hoping love really is blind 馃榿
 
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My solution to the problem is my girlfriends brother is my watch supplier [emoji38]
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
You dibsers are awere of it is ten years in advance dibsing? "When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling" 馃榾

Fully aware, but you don't get either of those by showing up at the last minute. Requires planning. And not like I'm going to find another in the meantime....
 
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kleungsf kleungsf
My solution to the problem is my girlfriends brother is my watch supplier [emoji38]
See, for me it was more about my brother's girlfriend. But maybe I shouldn't post about that on a public forum..
 
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oddboy oddboy
See, for me it was more about my brother's girlfriend. But maybe I shouldn't post about that on a public forum..
Hahahahah
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
You dibsers are awere of it is ten years in advance dibsing? "When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling" 馃榾

For some of your watches, we're willing to wait. 馃槈
 
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repoman repoman
And you conveniently left out the other recent watches, which were considerably more than the Seiko's. I'll remember this play for the playbook: "Strategically insert a nice looking Seiko, show it off, and then when asked what it cost, proudly say $100. This gambit then allows the purchase of two additional high end time pieces before you get asked again".

It was all a matter of timing. She happened to not be home when the Ed White arrived, not home when the Blancpain FF arrived, not how when either of the Ploprofs arrived.

Hey, but I did sell the FF so I could buy a car 馃榾
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
Watches are a part of my retirement planning. You cannot take anything with you in the end. When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling the collection bit by bit (dibs are accepted and noted from now on...) funding nice vacations in warmer places for me and the wife. As I have written elswhere on this site - funding getting silly drunk on grappa and eating fine ten course dinners in northern Italy is my plan for my watches in the end. Wearing a wrinkled up white linen suit and a Panama hat, smoking a fine cigar and pestering the young Italian guys with my anecdotes of what a Lemania Viggen costed in the beginning of the century.
Dibs on all of them.....馃憤 Turtle,s i will send money now
 
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Lulu Bear Lulu Bear
Wonderfully written. Your piece resonates loudly with me with my current 4 watch collection.
I have 15 watches - 12 Rolexes ,3 omega and my wife just think that I am crazy which OK .
 
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Hey, but I did sell the FF so I could buy a car 馃榾

yeah, I'm still scratching my head on that one... selling a watch to buy a car... wtf?

p.s. Taddy will understand this, he sees what I drive everyday... a 1986 truck, and a 1999 kiddie van with 285,000miles on it. I keep buying watches, guns, and motorcycles instead of a new car.
 
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