Horological Meandering

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...  

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... 

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... 

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... 

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

Best wishes Alkiro

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

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!)... 

Where will you go next? Cheers, John

That damn AP15202IP will probably be haunting my dreams the next few weeks I reckon.

You seem to have nailed the discipline by creating a theme for each watch. Now they have a purpose. Bravo. Bill