Automotive

I say “some version” as I did not buy the “car of my dreams”, rather I purchased something a little more sensible and little less expensive.  So for example rather than buying a GT3 for example I instead bought a 4S.  

You could say the brain won over the heart, or even common sense prevailed (to the extent common sense could be applied to any of this).  

It took several years to commit to selling watches and doing this. 

In fact for my first attempt at doing this several years ago I sold my Datograph Up/Down as a first move towards THE car. 

It was a different version of the same model car I was looking for at that time (vintage).  In the end I didn’t buy the car (for reasons more related to the specifics of buying older cars) and ended up buying another watch!  No regrets with that watch purchase, it turned out pretty well for me 😂, although buying the vintage/older car would have worked out well too. 

And then I decided that I should try an intermediary step towards the car I was ultimately targeting.  I mention this as it’s something referenced in some of the replies above about purchasing a lesser value / more affordable car that might suffice.  For me, this intermediary step was always that.  It was an experiment to see how much I’d use the car and so getting something cool and fun (and collectible) seemed like a safe intermediary step.  

But it never substituted for the end goal, and so I would not settle for something lesser than what you really want as with watches you know you’ll continue to want the other thing and so all you are doing is incurring transaction charges (trading out of one for the other etc). 

Last year I did decide to finally commit to purchasing the primary target car.  And that involved selling some watches (and that intermediary car mentioned above) to fund this new car.  

I’m happy I finally did this.  I do get more utility from the car and by using it more you could argue more enjoyment from it than from the watches which were sold.  

The caveats to this of course for my particular situation are 1) while I did sell watches, I was not in a position where I was contemplating selling watches which are “core” to my collection,  2) I didn’t go for the top choice car, again the brain won out as (like with watches) I have an upper bound (dollar price) which I was not comfortable exceeding and 3) I always planned to buy a car which wasn’t going to experience significant depreciation and so the goal was always a used car with more “stable” value. 

For me, if you can retain some watches and have the car then that is ideal.  I would be hesitant to wholesale move out of watches into cars.  For me, I think I only desire one car but would never be content with one watch.  

(A long winded answer, apologies in advance.  If you want any other details just PM me).