Quotable Quotes: Watch Collecting Reflections

How about another one? For laughs…mostly. This time around the inspiration comes from Japan.
Again, advance thanks to my fellow Purists for letting me “borrow” your pics. No offense intended.


(1) “Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

There is no exit watch. At least, not as long as you frequent PuristSPro. Run, you fools!

Zabreg1’s gorgeous PP 5370P






(2) “Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

All hardcore vintage watch guys believe this: the sight of a modern watch does nothing for him.

HSTE’s Genta collection





(3) “It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

You join a watch forum and go crazy active and comment on everything. But you use a pseudonym and don’t post any pictures of your watches and you don’t show up to any GTGs…hehehe, it’s okay, we’ve been there and we’re still friends. 😉😜




(4) “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Whether you are old or new to the watch hobby, one of the best things to do is to read from a variety of sources. Don’t stick to only Hodinkee. Or scroll the Watchville site. Do yourself a huge cognitive favor and branch out. Horology is hundreds of years old. The popular blogs are a rounding error in existence.

Brandon1’s pic.





(5) “The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Mark in Paris’s picture of the Richard Mille Alain Prost watch
(Now I’m going to put a helmet on and dodge stuff thrown my way. 🤣)





(6) “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

When you see that the Heuer Autavia 1st edition is now going for 6 figures and you could have had one 7-8 years ago for 10 grand or less. So now you’re constantly thinking about not missing out again.

Photo from Phillips auction house, Bacs & Russo




(7) “Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

When you stumble on a watch that you didn’t know about and it becomes the next incoming.

Many PPro members have taken a fancy to the Ming watches. Pic by Bruno.M1.





(8) “One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Can plainness and beauty coexist in the same watch? Of course.

CL’s magnificent Credor Eichi II





(9) “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Murakami

The great journey of this watch hobby, if you allow it to, is that you can change and evolve and find great satisfaction in something you never would have expected. For me, it is this beast of a watch. A bit too chunky and a face only its mother could love but a favorite every time that chronograph counter starts running.