Horological Meandering

Friends will recall that I decided to let go of my artier watches about 2-3 months ago. I've since found contented buyers for 12 of 18 of them, evenly distributed between east Asia, north America and western Europe. In their place are watches of deliberat...  

I hope you will not regret letting the other six watches go as they are truly beautiful and special.

The styles are amazing. Your Longines Hour Angle is maybe not the most expensive watch you had, but it rocks everything for me. A tip of the curtain why watch enthusiasts must not be blinded by brands who only make 5 figures priced watches, or are hard to...  

I remembered your post of your core collection. It is also my kind of collecting watches. A difference is, i collected in a row chronologically. Making no mistakes took me hours and hours, but it gave me a big smile on my face. The main secret of collecti... 

For sure, the chosen twelve would be the delight of many knowledgeable and sophisticated collectors! Cheers.

I like your new collection and appreciate the beauty of all those watches. I can certainly empathise with seeing timepieces leave, but I have never really regretted those decisions, and will always remember wearing and enjoying them. Looking forward to se... 

You might be inundated with PM asking for this, that or the other watch. If so, let me know privately and I will put up a similar picture of the ones I could afford to move along. Perhaps like this: Seriously now, I commend you. Obviously you are a more d...  

That doesn't mean I don't admire what you've just shared. On the contrary; I'm thrilled by examples of such obsession. Bravo

It's a bit larger now. I don't have any recent SOTC photos but these are my Seventy-Seven Seikos... (give or take a few) When I quit collecting cars I had some funds and space left over ... Mike ...  

Still going strong at 85 he's into 18-19th century scrapbooks (2000+), photo postcards (70,000), tie bars! (1200+) and he gave me the advice 50 years ago "Mike, if you're gonna collect and you will since you've got that gene mix, a word to the wise. Colle... 

Great advice! 77 battle tanks in the garden......

“collector Jacques Littlefield, a Stanford grad who turned his boyhood hobby into an obsession, and had a family fortune to make it possible.” “In 1983, Littlefield bought his first Stuart tank. “A week later he bought a Sherman,” Boller says. “The way he...  

That's not a collection - that's dedication "in absurdum"! 🤣

What an impressive collection!

I really like the very toned down Vacheron Constantin with date in the first photo. Modestly sized, simple, and elegant. All the pieces in the first photo are sufficiently different from each other too. A very nice collection. Diverse collection. And in t... 

The steel VC 6562 is just a lovely champagne dollop of 1960s. Its calibre K1072 / T remains seriously impressive to this day. Older and newer indies have compelling stories, and originality in spades as we all know. And so on and on. But it's also quite m... 

Sounds like you have a new but somewhat familiar adventure ahead of you! I hope it lives up to your expectations! The analogy: Brunello Cucinelli is a clothing brand that makes fairly expensive clothes out of wool, cashmere, and cotton. The clothes are fa... 

I don't own anything from Ricci. And I own a few pieces from Cucinelli. I find everything from both brands to be too expensive, so I can't say I recommend them.

I’m guessing majority will vote the top and keeping the bottom 6, at least I am. The bottom 6 consists of nice brands, micro brands and earlier PF and DR where people are starting to pay more attention. Very interesting move.

Every so often over the last 30 years I’ve taken decisions that set coordinates for the next chunk of life. I try to use such moments to dig deep and ask what I really want and need, and not let the habits formed up to that point dictate options. The resu...