Horological Meandering

. . . on the milestone. I've had the pleasure of meeting our K once, and hope to again when Cap or Nico throw a Euro g-t-g in 2026, in time for our community's 25th anniversary. ...  

It’s a great pleasure to have you with us on the WristScan team and I appreciate everything you do for our community. A true friend and a gentleman. Best regards Captain

The next time I come to London, Barrafina’s on me 😁👍🏻

. . . and there's one or two right behind him. ;-)

Helping infect the younger generation with mechanical watches 😁👍🏻

Initially my wife thought that getting the one watch that I first enquired about here was the end of the story - in hindsight much mistaken 😂

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I am grateful every day that she doesn’t change her decision about that 😁👍🏻🤞🏻

...she's obviously a keeper to put up with this mania : )

That is quite the feat!

Thanks a lot - it’s been a lovely community for so long 🙏🏻

The insight has waned a bit with the years, since the time available for watches dropped (well, two kids and work tend to get in the way 🧐🤷🏻‍♂️). But glad if there is the occasional useful nugget left 🙏🏻

Much appreciate your writings Kristjan, you have one of the larger collections here, and not just of the 'usual suspect' watches.... To many more enjoyable and informative contributions!! Cheers, Filip

Let’s kindly call it the path seldom chosen, when it comes to my collection 😁😂👍🏻🙏🏻

as much as I love all of high horology, most of the best selling pieces from the likes of Rolex, Patek, Cartier never compelled me significantly. Regardless of financial wherewithal, my choices would always lean far more toward JLC, VC, Piaget, Seiko and ... 

The hobby should be about personal enjoyment and I guess all of us define the pieces that do that for us differently. And fortunately there’s broad enough selection to please most of us 😁👍🏻

Also for being so accommodating those many years ago 😊👍🏻🙏🏻

... celebrating our WPS 25th Anniversary? Or may be before! I feel we are lucky to have you here in our community and thank your kind friendship. With best cordial regards, Abel

And it would be a pleasure and honor to finally meet in person - very much looking forward to it!

Thank you for your many wonderful contributions here and not least for your great friendship. Its a genuine pleasure.

Congratulations to you Sir. I do hope some day we cross paths in real life. Perhaps this mystical 25th for the Eurotrash ! (I include myself in that Eurotrash bucket 😂)

And would truly love to make both the P25 and a meeting in real life happen! Thanks so much 🙏🏻

That does not look like you, KM! Congratulations anyway. A fantastic achievement given all the moving around you’ve done these last years. You’re a great dude.

How I look today - consuming all those pterodactyls to get their leather for my watch straps left a mark or two 😂😂😂 Thanks a lot my friend and looking forward to meeting in person again 😊👍🏻🙏🏻

At the very least an aspect I never manage to capture properly in my watch photos 😂 Thanks a lot 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

In awe at your pace in comparison my friend! Looking forward to meeting again soon 😊🤞🏻

Congrats-if that's the age that you started on this epic journey I'm afraid I'm going to die well before reaching a fraction of that total

Art seems to have chosen a photo that in the meantime seems older than I am 😂😂😂 I started here 10 years ago 😊👍🏻

So I can set up the following formula or equation: KMII = 4x MTR At least for the number of posts this applies approximately. 😁 P.S.: The photo makes me think… 🤔😁

You have 4x the collection instead 👌🏻👍🏻 As for the photo, I can attest that I am of legal age in the meantime 😂😂😂

In that sense I am but a small contributor and many with significantly fewer posts bring a lot more knowledge to bear 🙏🏻

Congrats KMII!

Thank you so much for your great contribution to this amazing forum 🙏🏻🤗. Hope we will be able to see each other again at some point soon 🙏🏻

It’s been too long indeed. Maybe the next move brings me a tad closer geographically 😉👍🏻🤞🏻

May this be only a beginning!

They do not come as fast as they used to, especially not after the second child and all the recent moves. But I will endeavor my best 😁👍🏻🙏🏻

NT

Good luck in finding that P15 😉👍🏻

Looking forward to more from you!🥂

Thanks so much and I will do my best 🙏🏻

And looking forward to a rerun of the meeting. I seem to have grown somewhat since the picture was taken, though. Sadly in all dimensions 😂 The milestone came more or less exactly 10 years after joining. The last years have been a topsy turvy ride in real...