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Interesting to know about your journey as watch collector dear Art! ...
The road we collectors travel is meandering and unexpected so we can understand many watches come and go as our interest and experience changes.
It’s sad you let go these pieces bit I’m sure they gave you lot of pleasure and joy and other interesting pieces will occupy their place giving much pleasure and enjoyment as well!
Hagwe my dear friend!!
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WristScan November 22d - 24th of November session. The theme: Old loves. It is now!
That is a bit painful for me, because I realized that I sold or traded my oldest horological loves. Such as my first serious watch, a Rolex GMT MASTER 16700 from 1997. Or my first Daytona, which I got in 1999 and sold in 2004, then rebought in 2009. The l...
Thank you Nicolas ...
It’s difficult to know which to post.. you know the problem ;-))
Beautiful old loves dear Captain! I feel these are all...
... keepers for life! I wish you’ll keep enjoying and loving them so much my dear friend! Hagwe! Abel
Some really cool old loves...
And of the kind our significant others usually don’t object to 😉 Btw. when did the watch bug bite you?
Thank you ... It started slowly....
As long as I can remember I enjoyed a watch even as a kid. Things just got progressively worse 😉
Wow!
Very nice! This was given to me by my father when I was about 10, so early seventies. He wore it while in college in the late 40's-early 50's or so. The next one, this was given to my father by his father in '51 to wear to his wedding. Once again, he gave...
Yup
These ones I'm very attached to. The first watch I sold was just a few weeks ago, in fact!
My first watch (now more then 30 years old) and still in my collection
The Baume and Mercier linea Also still at home but in my little princess her collection now the second watch i bought also more then 30years ago The Cartier model 21 Hagwe ...
Fantastic that the next generation values them, too 👌🏻
Two really cool pieces! While I am not sure where B
Hello dear Nicolas!! You always leave me drooling when I view that...
... marvelous salmon dial Type XX!! Of course all other watches are superb pieces as well. Real keepers for life. In my case... I’m sure you know what I will answer: Submariners are my old love! My deep love! An obsession... a passion! My 1680 bought bran...
Ha ha ha!! Thank you my friend!! Last one...
...is just a reflex of my face on the plexi when I wear a Sub!! Lol!! Hagwe! Abrazos! Abel
Sub Heaven !....
That’s an incredible lineup Abel, but I think I have a favourite... ...
Clear your love for them is strong, Abel!
And a truly fantastic collection you have, too 👍🏻
My old love is the Big Pilot
Had 2 in the past, this is my third. The titanium I believe makes it infinitely more wearable, and thus a keeper. I took these photos today while walking back to my house from my son's school. It's literally a living photo studio... no processing or filte...
IWC Big Pilot and Legend Diver! Two loves of mine too!!
No needcto mention how much I love Panerai Calis!! Hagwe! Abel
Thanks, its pretty cool
A super shady walkway with just a little sun piercing through can work wonders
Oldest loves...great theme Nico!
Longest member of the collection, since 1993 Next oldest still in collection from 2003 Oldest watch from 1946 HAGWE All, Cheers, Tim ...
I didnt understand Silberstein back then...
But I definitely get it now... very cool piece Tim. So much personality!!!
This is a very nice idea and topic, dear Nico!
My oldest love affair, one of my grails until today, a dream, which has come true: IWC Minute Repeater in Platinum. My first love: the IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar 3750. this was my first high end watch. I let it go 2009 to trade for my Patek 5146G. Wh...
That‘s too nice, Nico!
This site and especially your posts have helped me a lot to evolve my taste. Amitiés Thomas
Aaaaaah...
This wonderful Ulysse Nardin Sonata, this JLC Titanium Minute Repeater, this Blancpain... I miss your Reverso Septantiéme in Platinum? :-D
Arrrgghh!
How could you sort out this Reverso?! 😎 For me one of the most appealing ones ever made! Besides the cheap Reverso A Triptyque. „Cheap“ because as you know it was sold for the same price as a 5711 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Funny times. Hahahaaaa! 😊 ...
A few keepers
Though have to admit, once I've got something it never leaves These have all been with me for a decade or more. Cheers JML ...
Definitely true loves, if they stay with you forever...
And that Reverso shot - amazing 👌🏻
Great watchs JML!! Easy to understand you keep...
... loving them as years go by! Hagwe! Abel
Let’s see...
My graduation present... The SBGH035... And the LUC Chrono One, the watch that got me here in the first place... ...
Those are definitely keeprs dear KM!! ...
... not only beautiful watches but also with a big significance behind!! Thank you for sharing them! Hagwe my dear friend! Abel
I must pay homage to the man and the watch
that launched a thousand emails and visits and calls to fellow collectors, dealers and friends. My Breguet Type XX. It still receives the most attention and compliments when I visit with other collectors. Thanks to Nicolas!! Best to you all, Tim ...
That’s a most beautiful watch Tim!! And as Nicolas...
... well says it’s only in this place we can find two examples of this rate edition in one same thread! I absolutely love a white metal case with a salmon dial combo! So beautiful Tupe XX! Hagwe my friend! Abel
Soon to be . . .
. . . an old love. Tomorrow, in fact. ;-( My love for watches began at an early age, but never realized until I was in the middle of my forties. Yes, I had a Rolex AirKing, but that was my only watch for fifteen years. Then, in early '01, I discovered Gla...
Times change...
And so do our preferences. Lovely grey lady and I am sure it will get cherished in its new home! So is the GO period well and truly over?
I think so, yes . . .
. . . unless a cal 42 Karree appears in the very near future to absorb the funds. Most likely candidate to make an appearance: a newcomer from Kalbe.
Interesting to know about your journey as watch collector dear Art! ...
The road we collectors travel is meandering and unexpected so we can understand many watches come and go as our interest and experience changes. It’s sad you let go these pieces bit I’m sure they gave you lot of pleasure and joy and other interesting piec...
Indeed they did, Abel - much enjoyment derived from wearing Karree perpetuals . . .
. . . although curiously my interest began to wane around the same time I stopped working, about nine years ago. With the benefit of hindsight, there may have been a subliminal need to have the calendar at hand, literally as well as figuratively, that dro...
Interesting to know dear Art! Yes, I feel our tastes ...
... can vary as per different stages of our own life. Watches are instruments so close to us! All the best my dear friend! Abel
Very moving Art. It is a true aficionado
that goes through these feelings, very moving Sir. Tim
Thanks, Tim. It was a bittersweet moment . . .
. . . parting with her this afternoon. A final wristshot . . . . . . taken this morning. ;-) ...
I was almost too lazy to open the vault but I couldn’t resist this great theme
Believe it or not the Benrus was my first communion watch ! This will give you a little idea how long I’ve been fascinated with watches. The two breitlings where one of my first forays into chronographs dating back 25 to 30 years ago The eterna was just a...
Thanks for taking us along on your horological journey!
And an interesting one it has been indeed 👌🏻
It was gifted to me by a elderly friend and patient. I had no idea about its significance in omega history. He had it on his wrist and I would comment on it regarding its orange sweeping second hand.
He told me he bought it brand new in 1968 Rumor has it that there a less than 50 in existence now.
Thank you for sharing these interesting pieces dear Tony!!
I also keep my comunion watch !! It was my First watch and I feel I should have posted here. Don’t have its pictures right now with me. These watches have some magic for us ... thank you for sharing them! Hagwe! Abel
An old love
My first dive watch from 1988 and she has accompanied me in all my dives since... Scratched and faded, but boy do we have stories to tell. ...
That’s a great diving watch Kamal! Worn for the use...
... it was intended! That’s great!! I’m sure this watch... and you have some awesome stories to tell! Thank you for sharing! Hagwe! Abel
Thank you for your kind words Abel 🙏🏻
One that I remember to this day was when I went hunting. Lost track of my dive time as I was too focused on a particular fish... Only realised when my pressure gauge was showing ~500 PSI and I was about 100 meters in depth! That was one lesson learned!!!
Wow Kamal ! That’s a thrilling story!! Glad to know you have enjoyed...
... scuba diving and this watch so much!! Take care my friend!! Abel
Unbelievable, as always...
From those the Sonata still pulls at my heartstrings strongest 😊
Old love
My grandfather was WW2 veteran,he got shot before to enter Berlin and he was sent the war he brought this and used for many years then put it in a box.I found it 15 years ago after he passed away and have it with me since then.I feel like going back in t...