Horological Meandering - Define enough

Define enough

When I first became interested in watches my wife asked me how many watches I thought I need. My answer at the time (not very long ago) was 3: one for daily wear to the office, one more robust for weekends and holidays, and one nice dress watch. Clearly this was a mistake on my part since 3 watches can never be enough, but my question to those of you who have been in this game for a long time is how many is enough. Too many is in my opinion also not good since I do not want to own watches that never see wrist time (just my personal opinion and obviously not shared by everyone on this forum). Hope you can help me come up with a sensible number.........and some good excuses I can give my wife when trying to explain away another watch purchase.

" The sky is the limit "...

By: amanico : September 29th, 2010-13:39

Seriously, I think that we are a lot to have thought that only 3 wathces will cover our needs... Then, going a bit deeper in watches, it is like a trap. An example: You fall on a Rolex GMT. You think you're covered with travel watches... Then, you fall on...

LOL! OK now I know the true story

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : September 29th, 2010-13:58

greatly explained my dear friend Horology=black hole Once sucked in there is no escape only new beautiful items on event horizont Best Damian

You see? That is dramatically ... Dramatic. :)

By: amanico : September 29th, 2010-14:16

Do never start! Hope all is well, my friend. See you soon? Best, Nicolas

I hope so I really hope so

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : September 30th, 2010-03:06

but I would like to go as far as to get Logo ;0) Damjan

Aaah, the Logo...

By: amanico : September 30th, 2010-03:10

You mean ... MY Logo? Keep me updated, my friend. Very Best, Nicolas

Your's preferably

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : September 30th, 2010-03:12

but any non franken /fake/OOR/gray/fishy would be OK :0) Damjan

What about a Pam 000? :))))

By: amanico : September 30th, 2010-03:15

After a few glasses of Grappa, you don't even see the difference... Best, Nicolas

OK then we solved this issue :0))

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : September 30th, 2010-04:00

you know me too good and my father unfortunately LOL!! BEST Damjan

'enough' is always 1 more than you currenty have. [nt]

By: G99 : October 1st, 2010-11:03

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Always: "Just o-n-e more"!... :-)

By: pplater : September 29th, 2010-14:05

I'll let you know if I ever achieve it.

By: mkvc : September 29th, 2010-20:29

Don't hold your breath. Seriously, it's hard to give regular wrist time to more than perhaps ten or twelve watches. However, if you have watches you like and it doesn't bother that they are worn rarely, there really isn't much of a limit. I keep about hal...

One Hundred (more or less)

By: cazalea : September 29th, 2010-22:12

That's where I (got) stopped. Cazalea

Tough question,

By: docsnov : September 29th, 2010-22:40

I think it has to be an individual choice. Some might want to spend all their money on one top end watch, while others may spend less to have multiple pieces. Finances, family situation, other responsibilities are going to be different for everyone. Set y...

Obviously there are much sicker people than me on this Forum :)

By: samwan : September 30th, 2010-03:03

"Enough?" Can't even find that word in my dictionary. My new year resolution has been broken many times (the only thing I learnt is that I should buy more selectively, and stay away from brands/pieces that can't stick in my mind or have low resale value)....

When we can seriously say "NO!" to temptation. But can we?

By: patrickmaniac : September 30th, 2010-06:20

cheers PAt

When servicing kicks in

By: jml_watches : September 30th, 2010-14:23

Hi There have already been lots of well thought out responses to how many watches are enough - but I thought I'd throw my comments in and probabl yopen another can of worms at the same time. You have enough watches - when getting them serviced starts to c...