Horological Meandering

Thanks for the nicely written and thoughtful post, and for sharing your genuine passion here...

Jan 15, 2018,06:35 AM

I think it's indeed a challenging --- but fascinating! --- exercise to try to build the collection that we really want...

Personally, I'm currently at 15 to 20 watches, and I find many of them *highly* nonessential (including at least a couple of Pateks!). My eventual goal, as I view things at this stage, would be to constantly own somewhere between 8 and 10 pieces, and more important, to always increase the "value" of my collection with each new entry.

Defining "value" is of course also crucial here, but let's say that for me it must at least imply "quality", "rarity", and... "Patek"

Also on this front I have --- and always will have --- to improve a lot, but that's why collecting is so interesting!

Please continue to share other interesting and thought-provoking posts!

Best wishes

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My essential six

By: xplorer2 : January 14th, 2018-22:17

Hello everyone. I have been a silent lurker for on the site soaking in all the nuggets of wisdom and knowledge of this amazing community. I have been enjoying different watches from different manufactures and have recently pared down the collection to wha...

Alas, I am more around 20 to 25 when it comes to my essential watches.

By: amanico : January 14th, 2018-22:45

And I don't see myself going to to 12. But as you said, it is all about temptations, tested through time... I like your idea to classify your pieces by function. I should try to do that, in order to reduce my collection to the very essential. Welcome here...

Thanks for the warm welcome Amanico

By: xplorer2 : January 15th, 2018-07:31

Fully understand the temptations. It took me alot to part with some of the other Panerais, Rolex, Nomos to pare the collection down to the base. I guess where I wanted to build from a base to first address my functional needs and then build again the piec...

Warm welcome here

By: Alkiro1 : January 14th, 2018-23:11

What an eclectic and nice collection you own there. Mine is almost always in motion even if I have a stable “core” one. My goal would be to own between 10 and 15 watches but the temptation is constant in our hobby so I already know that I will fail to rea...

Thanks Alkiro

By: xplorer2 : January 15th, 2018-07:35

Yes I think I will eventually build up to about 10 - 12 pieces as well.

You’ll see. The main thing is to take pleasure 😉

By: Alkiro1 : January 15th, 2018-07:52

Best wishes Alkiro

A very warm welcome!

By: KMII : January 15th, 2018-01:19

Glad you have found us and very happy to see and read more about your collection in the future! And great pictures, too!

Thank KMII for the warm welcome [nt]

By: xplorer2 : January 15th, 2018-07:35

Nice and varied collection [nt]

By: piccolochimico (aka dsgalaxy1) : January 15th, 2018-05:29

Thank you piccolochimico [nt]

By: xplorer2 : January 15th, 2018-07:36

Thanks for the nicely written and thoughtful post, and for sharing your genuine passion here...

By: FabR : January 15th, 2018-06:35

I think it's indeed a challenging --- but fascinating! --- exercise to try to build the collection that we really want... Personally, I'm currently at 15 to 20 watches, and I find many of them *highly* nonessential (including at least a couple of Pateks!)...