Hi all,

I'm thinking to use some software to have better controlled all the watches I have with all the related information about (photos, receipts, comments, characteristics, etc).

Are you using any specific software and/or workflow to have your watch collection "in order"?

Thanks

 

Excel for recording.
Organised file system for photos.

 

I also just use Excel

 

Access

 

- Excel/Numbers for my attempt to keep an organised information system
- Watches album on Google Photos

 

Hard copies of all correspondence, photos. Excel

 

So, no commercial (or free) specific software at all, just "self-developed"

 

The OP might be interested in these threads, which addressed similar topics.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/which-app-for-watch-collection.88907/
https://omegaforums.net/threads/how-do-you-collate-your-watch-information.67463/

 

very outdated here- Photos album on the Mac with a notebook of scribbles! Although this thread has empowered me to start something more cutting edge

 

Massive management overhead, even with your number of watches !

 

Thanks. So, I see that there is not (yet) the definitive easy tool that answer the major request of the aficionados (privacy, easiness, etc...)

Watchsee (that I knew) is the most near app, but it's "short" in specifications and parametrization.

 

Tellico is a free collection manager that I fiddled with and decided it was overkill. The probable downside for you is that it requires KDE Frameworks 5 platform (also free) and that is only available for Linux and some BSD Unix variants,

https://tellico-project.org/

 

Many thanks. Here I'm at home a full Mac user.

 

I believe that modern MacOses are based on BSD, so you might find a port of the software. Can't help more, I've been Linux at home since 1998 and SunOs before that.

 

I use Excel for numbers, but OneNote (free and also freeform, to a point) for grabbing summary info like the condition of the watch when I received it, a link to the FS ad etc, maybe links to further info on that watch or ideas for bracelets etc. There are other similar packages - like EverNote - but OneNote is available for nothing on every platform so it's just _easy_.

 

Mac users can take a look at Tap Forms 5, which is pretty good for cataloging pretty much anything.

 

Little hand written tags with the date of the last service written on them.

 

The Timepiece Genleman uses an excel spreadsheet and a handwritten notebook. If i works for them….

 

And YouTube... You could always go back to watch your videos

 

Excel for me with a tab for inventory, inventory sold (strangely empty ) and last serviced.