Thinking I didn’t really have an exciting story chasing watches I thought I would leave this weeks WS for what it is. And really I don’t have an exciting story, but I did just realize I have had a little watch buying accomplish on a few occasions.
So situation;
my 3 year old daughter loves to go for a drive with me. And she is very curious. Having heard me talking about Amsterdam she wanted to go to Amsterdam. Not having a clue what Amsterdam is, but that didn’t matter at all. So one day I got a call that a certain selection of very colorful dialed GO’s were at a shop to be seen and perhaps bought for a very short time I needed to hurry to Amsterdam. Guess I mumbled Amsterdam out loud and probably something with a bad word combined with traffic jams. Nevertheless all my little daughter heard was Amsterdam and the next thing out of her mouth was: me too. So...I said to myself: why not. Drove to Amsterdam and settled in the store. The staff were very accommodating as she got pencils and drawing paper, chocolates and apple juice so daddy could pick a watch in piece.
The salesman (after closing the GO deal) continued his whole sales approach with my daughter. Got her an array of pink FlikFlaks to choose and try on and I could she she really felt like a princess. That’s were she got her first watch shopping experience.
When we got home my wife looked at us, shook her head and said something like: both a lost cause...
Story II
December 2017. While browsing the net I stumbled upon a Rolex GMT 1675 from my birth year. Located in Köln. It was like 2 or 3 days before Christmas. It is a 3 hour drive there but my daughter (4 now) hears me explaining to my, again head shaking, wife why I needed to go on a day trip up and down to Cologne and her response was: I want to come daddy. So I told her it would be an entire day in the car, but she was adamant of coming with me. So there we went. Not one complaint on the drive over and back. In the store she got apple juice and candy. I got my watch. Everybody happy.
So as she got chocolate or candy at all the watch stores she ever visited she will jump in the car anytime I’m going shopping 😎