When collections collide..

Well more like compliment each other. I obviously love watches but also have a sickness for sunglasses. I know that there are others with sunglasses but what else compliments your collection (other than your partner😗)

Funny that I wear sunglasses from sun up to sundown living in Northern Australia but have never thought of them as much of a fashion thing like watches.

Have recently moved to Otis for all things sunglasses, mainly due to mineral glass lenses. (Apparently they are a fashion brand 😎)

Bagged up all my old sunglasses and donated them to some Filipino seamen on a vessel 14 pairs in total and everything from ray bans to Maui Jim’s. Was like Christmas for them. Still get smiles every time the vessel comes in.

Those are some sweet shades!



I would love to collect sunglasses, but have found it very hard to accumulate more than one pair because ... lost. 🙁

I hate sunglasses. Hate wearing 'em. Went for most of my life refusing to wear sunglasses at all.

Now in my dotage I cannot be without a pair when I'm out in bright sunshine or even when out on hazy or cloudy days. So, now the silly things are just part of the landscape that is my ugly mug.



Mrs. noelekal in her B&L Lisbon cat eyes with me wearing the usual Maui Jim Fleming Beach and a granddaughter on an outing. There's a vintage IWC watch in the photo


Sunglasses aren't my hobby though. I'm a gun nut first and foremost: shooting sports competition, collecting vintage firearms, and the study, handloading, care, and feeding of them all. Here our youngest son took a photo showing my bad form holding a pistol as feebly as I possibly could without dropping it, deliberately limp wristing a CZ 75 BD in an effort to induce a failure to cycle. The effort was a bust. The pistol proved reliable. Sunglasses complement shooting sports and are a must on the range, both for improved vision and for eye protection in the event of a myriad of things that never go wrong but might, hence becoming a hazard risk to the eyes.




I'm like Darlinboy though and am prone to leave the things behind. I've driven back 30 miles back up I-10 to a restaurant in Tucson to fetch those Maui Jims. I've also left a pair in the waiting room of my parents' doctors' office a few years ago, never to be seen again. The Fleming Beach model is now discontinued so I'd better keep up with the ones I have now.