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MattS
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Any daily, weekly watch routine to share?...

Hi all,

Having been a watch addict and vintage watch collector for years I have developped some kind of watch routine.  Some of my friends, family members or work colleagues find this anoying but anyway, I go my way...I wanted to share this here and  invite you to do the same if you also have developped some kind of routine or just share how you live our shared  passion on a daily basis...

A big part of my pleasure with watches is wearing them!...I have been collecting for quite some years and my collection has been evolving over the years.  I always tried to apply the same rule, wear it or drop it!  When I find out I don't wear a watch any more it is time to let it find a new home where it will get some love and hopefully some wrist time. So I try to keep my collection to some decent size which gives me the variety I look for to wear a different watch and have fun everyday and not get boared.  So my collection has stabilized around 40 watches, more or less 30 that I consider as the more "serious pieces", around 5 "fun watches" for variety and around 5 "holiday watches" that I feel comfortable taking anywhere at the beach or during outdoor activities.

I travel extensively for work and for fun so I pretty much always travel with the number of watches to cover the number of days, this is usually between 2 and 7!...luckily I have found a safe that is located very close to my home and my bank is open on saturdays so usually part of the routine starts by going to the safe and making a selection for the week.  My collection is all around sports and tool watches, divers, chronos and GMTs, so I try to have a variety amongst categories, sizes, dials etc!...then comes the complexity of watches with dates and no quick set which also plays into the selection.  Having around 40 watches enables me to wait to get close to the date to wear these!...

So part of the routine is to select the watches for the week, then to pick a different one every day, and part of the routine is also to do a daily wristshot to share on some social network platform that most of you know...

So here is how last week looked like, including a trip to the eternal city of Rome!...

Saturday, Omega Seamaster 300 piazza Navona, Rome

Sunday:  Blancpain Fifty fathoms Coliseum, Rome

Monday: Zenith El Primero A386, Rome

Tuesday:  Heuer Montreal, Geneva 

Wednersday:  Jaeger Lecoultre Polaris 68, Geneva

Thursday:  Eberhard Scafograf 200 Big Crown, Geneva

Friday:  Leonidas CP2, Geneva

And below some pics of some assortments:

Weekly assortment

A four day trip

Another weekly assortment

A recent chrono trip!

A typical Holiday by the sea assortment

Any watch routine you'd like to share?...

thanks,

Matt