Hello all, This could be dificult to summarize for most of you as we have here some outstanding collection with too many watches to be listed, but I was just remembering when all this story started... So, back in 2011... I was looking for my first nice Watch... and found a dedicated forum in France. I started reading some thread and discovered that many people were crazy enough to spend thousand in old and damaged vintage watches... imagine that... Then I continued to digg on and discovered the Speedmaster... That was the begining of the end... Then 6 years later... I realized that my taste has evolved.. changed over the years ...but finally I am considering to get back to the source...(Omega watches are highlighted of course!) -145012-67 / 1039-516 Omega Speedmaster (1st Watch) -5513 Maxi MkII -14270 explorer I tritium dial -166024 Seamaster 300 / 1039-516 -Super compressor dual crown divers (many..) -105003-63 Tropical Brown dial -16570 explorer II tritium dial -1601 datejust -UG polerouter 18K microrotor -2846 Seamaster 18k gold dial -Zenith Deluca 2nd Gen NOS -16520 patrizzi -JLC power reserve cal 481 -1683004 Rosegold Constellation -165024 Seamaster 300 -Gigandet Triple date R730 -Record Sport Venus 175 black dial -1675 MKI -SAAF Lemania 1872 -IWC 18K Cal 8541b -14755 Seamaster 300 -Bretiling cadette V188 50's tropical Brown dial. -XXXXXX Omega Speedmaster ?? I am of course a really modest collector but I found interesting to go though this retrospection. Would someone be interested to share its Watch history as well? As a thread is useless without picture, here is the very first one ....
Interesting thread! My love for watches all started when I was a kid and my dad bought a retro date Gerald Genta when we were on holiday in St. Thomas. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I wanted a sub so bad but he got me a citizen instead. Since then I've owned 2 subs and flipped them both. Now hooked on Omegas Mine in order were: Citizen ecodrive Bunch of cheap Fossils Rolex 1500 Date Rolex 1016 Explorer Venus Marinetimer Rolex 16800 matte dial Rolex 5508 Sub Omega 2577 seamaster Omega TDMP white dial Omega 1940s French rosegold Omega 2852 Rose Constellation Omega 2852 gold cap textured dial Omega globemaster (no name connie) Omega 2852 black textured dial 18k Omega 2852 stainless textured dial 1035 Champion lollipop sub Omega 2852 stepped Deluxe 18k 7077 Clinton Sky Diver Omega black dial TDMP Technos Sky Diver Omega Rail Track stainless Textured 7077 Omega Rail Track 18k gold Omega 2998 Speedmaster 7912 Omega 2782 black textured dial (en route) 1035 And a picture of my dad's watch which started it all:
The last decade. Some have come, some have gone. In no particular order: 1994 Speedmaster Reduced date 1980s Rorisi, Jesus dial 1950s Rolex Oyster 1930s Rolex Viceroy 1962 Speedmaster 105.002 1950s UG Uni-compax (redial, aargh.) 2002 JLC MasterDate, WG 1950s Heuer chrono, YG 2005 Panerai PAM____. Base Luminor 2008 Sinn U1 1968 Rolex 5512 4-line 2005 Breguet Retrograde Seconds Classique 1970s Rolex Datejust, steel, blue dial. 1955 Patek 2508, YG 2008 De Bethune DB22 Power 1962 Rolex Day Date 1803 circa 1830 French Quarter Repeating gold pocket watch, 'after' A-L Breguet 2015 Pinion Pure 1930s Mimo Avia Aviator 2002 Cartier CPCP Tortue, WG Incoming: 1980s Speedmaster Pro 145.022
In those immortal words of Harry Chapin "Too many smiles and too many miles". There is no hope for being able to list most of the watches that have come and gone. For a time I had an active catch and release program going. Being much younger at the time and somewhat fickle there were probably a couple hundred watches that have come and gone. Over that time frame I graduated from plain Jane Tudors to Lange and Breguet. Then life got complicated and in the way. The watch collection took an enormous hit. Today there are about a dozen watches in the safe and one on my wrist Life has once again resumed a sense of normalcy and I'm starting to rebuild the collection. The watches that I remember making it through my revolving door were: Omega Speedmaster Pro 20th Anniversary Omega Speedmaster Pro 30th Anniversary Omega Seamaster 150th Anniversary Blancpain Monaco Yacht Show Flyback JLC Master Moon in Platinum JLC Master Moon in Rose Gold IWC Mark XII Breguet Heritage Lange and Sohne 1815 Ab/Auf Lange and Sohne Cabaret Moonphase and many, many more. It's been quite the journey.
There is some great stuff here!! Interesting to see how we all adress this passion with different view