Horological Meandering

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You are not alone

Hi Brandon,

it is to appreciate very much that you throw in the view of a watch addict in the earliest stage of development.
Though you got your first watch it seems that you know what you are doing. Myself I am not very far beyond this point and my collection could easily be displayed in a single photograph.
I think that collecting to wear and collecting to collect are two basic approaches while mixed form of both exist.
And in the beginning I think that it the obvious way to collect to wear.
My first watch that required a (for me then) significant investment I bought because I wanted to wear a "decent" watch (a Fortis Spacematic GMT, still a great and modern timeless design). Back then I thought I may now be through with buying watches.
until I bought one And then, five years later, there was this itching called Speedmaster. I resisted and argued about "so much money"more or less on impulse. I justified it as "the good watch for special occasions".
One year later I was caught by the G.O. Sport Evo and there was no excuse other than passion.
Now I owned three black dialled sports watches and I took a break for two years.
When I was prepared again to extend the box I knew I wanted to extend my possibilities and wanted to go for something dressy. I found it in a golden NOMOS Orion that had been talking to me for a while (extremely good value for the money).
Some months later I found a wonderful silver dialled vintage Memovox in Paris that I could not resist.
I wear them all regularly.

So I think our approaches are similar and different at the same time. We share the will to own usable watches the get wrist time. But it seems to me that your approach may be more rational than mine which seems to be a little bit more passion. I still do  a lot of research on the ones that interest me but not in a way that I go looking and comparing around in the market for the watch that I could buy next.

I am quite sure that your Planet Ocean (on my list as soon as they start using cal. 8500/8600 in there. But on the other hand I already do own my share of sports watches........) will not be your last watch. You are just standing on the top end of the slope ;-)

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave........

Best,
Martin