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 deliberately middling stature. It's a toned down and dialled back selection, precisely what I was hoping to achieve.

There's a variety of dial material and colour here, and of manual and self-wound movements. In terms of complications, I've kept it to chronographs, world time, moon phase, and three handers. I wanted watches with Arabic and Roman numerals, and indices. I also wanted watches evocative of some of my favourite decades in design: the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. I'm a dial rather than a movement man, so that's made the choices more straight forward. Simple requirements and simple results.

Here's the first of two photos, of the 'new dirty dozen.'

There's also a bedside drawer full of odds and sods - a gallery of rogues that has no place in this august forum :p

Here are the six watches that will, in time, go. This might seem odd to say, but with each departure I've felt a tad more liberated. This has made me wonder if my pursuit of watches of recent years went from being a groove to being a rut. Perhaps it did.

Thanks for bearing with these occasional posts. I thoroughly enjoy the thoughtful, good-humoured engagement

With best regards.

Age_of_Surfaces

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