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  1. Steve1haggart Oct 27, 2018

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    If you could only keep one watch from your collection what watch would you keep ? let me start it of with a watch that’s not the most expensive one in my collection but the memory make it priceless .
     
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  2. stefman Oct 27, 2018

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    For me it’d be this one
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  3. Vitezi Oct 27, 2018

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    From 1953:
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  4. Noddyman Oct 27, 2018

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    Same here this stainless Connie is the one I tend to wear the most.

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  5. Fritz genuflects before the mighty quartzophobe Oct 27, 2018

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    Oh my goodness NO!

    Another "if the zombie apocalypse was happening and you could only have one watch thread"!

    DAMMIT!

    Well hell... If you were to do this with your heart it would be the Howard series 5 or the 24j Illinois... both so nice, well actually, both so beautiful.
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    BUT!

    Since I can only have one watch. One. for daily wear... something I have to depend on, something parts are readily available for and that can put up with the crap of the daily grind. Work. Play. Water. Motorcycling. Something that doesn't cost an arm, a leg and my left nut to get serviced, or better yet something that doesn't need service...

    It would be the shite Citizen Ecothingy diver...
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    But since this is a hypothetical world...

    So you'd see me in public sporting my nice responsible and sensible Citizen.
    But I'd keep the Howard and the Illinois and all three of my Waltham '92s upstairs under the mattress like porn.

    To be enjoyed after dark after everybody else has gone to bed.

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    Go ahead... call the cops... I'm a hoarder!
     
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  6. Walviskroket Oct 27, 2018

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  7. duc Oct 27, 2018

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    Well I waited 30 years (accounting for the fact I didn't start looking at watches seriously until I was about 10) for this; so it has to be my first:

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  8. 1972Steve Oct 27, 2018

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    I just love the simplicity.

    MAYBE this one. Ask me tomorrow.

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  9. CPRwatch Oct 27, 2018

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    I've got quite a few favourites to choose from ,but think it would be this image.jpeg
     
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  10. kaisiang098 Oct 27, 2018

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    For me it’ll be pretty straight forward.
    It’ll be this silver linen 16014 from my dad.
    It’s not particularly rare or special but it’s a piece that I’ll be taking to my grave.
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  11. stevec14 Oct 27, 2018

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    79151280-1F30-47FD-BE39-5CF1207664EE.jpeg For me this one (but only if I could keep the other bezels and bracelet)
     
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  12. tgoto Oct 27, 2018

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    It will be this 320, case 2276-1 from 1959 ✌️
     
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  13. Jonathan40 Oct 27, 2018

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    6FC7F0B4-FA13-4D98-AEBD-51061137C9AD.jpeg The perfect one stop watch, does everything required of it with aplomb
     
  14. François Pépin Oct 27, 2018

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    Today, I would say this one (cal 283, rose gold). But mainly because it is for the moment the last Omega I have bought and serviced!
     
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  15. papajan Oct 27, 2018

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    I think this one. The first Speedmaster i bought. So there is Some emotional value in it
     
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  16. BlackTalon This Space for Rent Oct 27, 2018

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    What is the premise of the need to pair down to one? Whatever is driving that requirement would help dictate the choice.

    Divorce? I would keep the most valuable Speedmaster, so it could be sold later to rebuy some of the others that were divested.

    Have to live in an underwater dome for one or two yeas? Probably the Sinn UX.

    Nuclear apocalypse, and can only flee with one? Probably one of the mechanically-winding watches.

    Trip to the moon? Several Speedmasters, all strapped on over the space suit...
     
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  17. Mouse_at_Large still immune to Speedmaster attraction Oct 27, 2018

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    This one - inherited from my late father.

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  18. stefman Oct 27, 2018

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    Thanks, can’t recall exactly, but chances are it was from cheapest Nato straps dot com
     
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  19. jimmyd13 Oct 27, 2018

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    Come on, guys. Last time we did this every other post was a Sub. We're on the pre-eminent Omega forum!

    Oh, and here's the one I'd keep:


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  20. gemini4 Hoarder Of Speed et alia Oct 27, 2018

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    Military Railmaster
    Very few ever existed
    This pristine example might be the best, worldwide.
    Reference 2777-2 Railmaster, circa 1955 with special caliber 283 movement with goose neck regulator.
    The bridge from the 1953 2777-1 RAF to the 1957 Railmaster 2914-1 Trilogy watch

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