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Curious about PuristS' thoughts.
WatchTime Magazine recently published an interview with Jack Kingston, a pretty well-known collector. One question posed to him caught my attention.
The question: How do you select watches?
JK's answer: "Here's an interesting dimension to it and this is how the human mind can always come up with an excuse for another watch. So you say, 'I need a dress watch,' so then you get a dress watch. 'I need a chronograph! You know, come to think of it, I think I need a split-second chronograph, too,' and then, 'I need a dress chronograph. My dress watch is rose gold, but sometimes I think I'm going to wear white metal so I better get a white metal dress watch.' You just go down this list and you can always find a rationalization for something new, and that's fun."
Personally, I find myself looking at certain brands to see if they have something I "need". But I do buy pieces in the manner that Kingston suggests. RG dress watch, but I also need WG because I have this suit/pants/jacket that WG might go better with. I need another sport chronograph; but a dress chrono would be a good option when I don't feel like wearing a three-hander, etc. etc. And of course there is always the anarchic buying spree-I don't have a diver gee there are so many good-looking divers I better not limit myself to just one oh that one's a great buy how can I not have a (brand) or (brand).
How do you chose your purchases? Is anything Jack Kingston says relevant to you? I'd love to hear other PuristS' decision-making process.
Curious about PuristS' thoughts.
WatchTime Magazine recently published an interview with Jack Kingston, a pretty well-known collector. One question posed to him caught my attention. The question: How do you select watches? JK's answer: "Here's an interesting dimension to it and this is h...
Excuses...lol...but here's my serious side.
I buy watches for their differences and variety, form, function, materials - basically "look", so yes in a manner similar to the collector interviewed. Color somewhat but I won't be collecting 10 Speedmasters that look similar, or a full set of xSOTM. Mov...
You're not a true Purist?!?!?!
Out with yesterday's trash! Sure you are, Raymond! An esteemed Purist, I would add. Let's see how unique your buying habits are.
🤣🤣🤣...I’m deeply honored my friend....Right on the money are all my watch buying habits...
I keep telling myself what if you can only strike once...
This started out as a query on how PuristS build a collection
and it has now turned into a discourse on the Captain's migraine treatment. Where was that left turn?
Can anyone offer further advice on migraine remedy’s …
Thanks for any advice on this subject
Keep us posted.
(Get it?! "Posted"?! Like "posted on the Forum?!") Keep us POSTED! Hahaha.
It’s remarkable that we all go through very similar thoughts in the watch hobby
So many of us grow through similar paths early on or during the middle years of the hobby A few years ago, I would have absolutely fallen into JK’s camp and fit exactly what he describes. I wanted a watch for every type of occasion. Now I can relate more ...
I think the main point Kingston makes is that the mind of the collector will create whatever excuse it needs to add "that" piece to the collection.
We can all create "gaps" in our trove, real or fantasy, so as to justify the one we are looking at right now; the one we can't live without.
I think Kingston discribed it excectly how most of us think and act in our crazy hobby 😉
I also act the same way , first i tell my self i dont need it (if its not a grail watch ) , then after a few days my mind is telling me its a ,must have , in the collection .
I'm trying to stay focus on 3 brands
JLC, Rolex and Patek and within those 3 I am 100% agree with the statement below. but this is insane. No one needs more than one watch
I remember reading that many years ago.
When I was starting out. And I told myself "No worries. I don't have those kinds of funds to do what Ludwig did to himself." Hah!
Difficult to say...
I tend to easily get excited but seem to have somehow - miraculously if you ask me - acquired some control over my impulses lately. While my selection process would start off as described by JK, continue the way you describe the final test for me is, ‘how...
That's a smart way to handle prospective purchases.
I wonder how many PuristS would claim the same thing. I do that, or try to, with some success. But there are plenty of lapses in good judgment.
Part of the fun in collecting is…
Not trying to over plan the journey. Just buy the best you can’t afford and enjoy it.
Frankly, I don't choose them anymore. They . . .
. . . choose me. ;-) Seriously. When I first started collecting, a watch had to be 'me'. So I accumulated a fair number . . . . . . of these. Why? Mostly because they reflected values I held dear: agreeable aesthetics, exquisite construction, value, and i...
Art, I feel your pain
I am in a similar position although not looking for Omegas — I’m like a magpie who sees shiny things — having just looked at the $34k Urban Jurgensen for sale on Collectors Market and I was saying to myself “I talked to Derek Pratt not too long before he ...
We all go thru periods of ennui . . .
. . . fostered by stretches of intense interest. As someone once said (in another context altogether), "We are all doomed." ;-)
Could you speak English please?
I looked up ennui on Google Translate and it says that’s Swedish for “yes, thanks, I’ll have another IPA” Mike
I use 'ennui' in conversation practically every day, Mike . . .
. . . doesn't everybody?
Much simpler than my choice...
to use 'notwithstanding' whenever I can. Nevertheless, the wherewithal to resist such extravagance is generally appreciated by other PuriSts!
My favorite phrase is . . .
. . . 'so-be-it'. And only because the third greatest Raider of all time . . . . . . was fond of using it. That's why they called him 'The Judge'. ;-) ...
You may have hyphenated that to be clear,
but you know, nowadays it's actually spelled 'sobeit.' (I know… looks like some kind of ice cream you haven't yet tried.)
In the immortal words of Lester Hayes, one of, if not . . .
. . . the , greatest cornerback(s) ever, Sobeit ! (Better make that word .) ;-)
On occasion.
Now more frequently, since I am trying to impose a "2 out-1 in" rule. Works great not.
Wow, Art!
That’s a beautiful Omega! I learnt to appreciate this old, perfectly balanced, harmonious, elegant but rugged pieces. Pure joy to wear! Do we really need more? (of course, rhetoric question: we do!) Wear it in good heath. René P.S. what reference is it? H...
That's a '46 ref 2364, René . . .
. . . one of four in my collection. I also have a ref 2365, and a ref 2366 incoming with the same printed Romans dial. The difference between a 2364 and 2366 is 2.5 mm in case diameter (33 mm for a 2364, 35.5 for a ref 2366); they're identical mechanicall...
As always thank you very much dear Art
You always share a great amount of information that allows us to focus on special watches such like this. Once again thank you!🙏🏼 With my best regards. René
Personally, I try to keep a small number of watches that I actually wear, being...
1 Patek & 1 Vacheron (to cover the „Holy Trinity“; currently not interested in AP but that may change when they unveil their new line of watches next year) 1 more or less small independent brand for fun 1 watch for all occasions including vacation (in...
Now that's discipline.
I applaud you. I'll let you know when I'm there; but don't wait for the email. :-(
My watch „obsession“ has now taken a different form:
I check watch related news on a daily basis and I have bought tons of books, watch straps and even some simple watchmaking tools 😂
after flipping/returning a 3rd watch within one year i realized if i wasnt wearing the watch there is no point in owning it as i dont have a collecting focus or goal (yet..)
and stuff them in a safe. I just happen to like certain watches, some nice some sporty, some vintage, all of wich i am happy to wear. I once owned a iwc 5441 and loved it. But i used it less and less and for me its the most beautiful designed dress watch ...
All good points.
And the exact same experience with a RG 5441. As well as a 325. I realized I am not a collector per se; or an investor. I want to wear them.
I think our hobby originates at least in part from the fact that we are somehow still boys at heart.
As the saying goes: „The difference between the men and the boys is the price of the toys.“ 😂 or As I say to my wife: „My vice is innocent.“
Innocent, i love that ! But as you write the reading and learning and discussing has also grown and become part of this favourite pasttime. Price is a more important factor now because i already own several pieces i really cherrish.
So every new euro to be spent must deliver a `larger` and larger sum of satisfaction or quality or exceptionality. ( is that a word ?) So more and more propositions get rejected as i am very happy with the current line-up. Untill one day………… a change is g...
„One comes in, one has to go“ has also been my approach.
That being said, I have had my fair share of „flipping“ as I have owned a good dozen of watches over the past 10 year
