amanico
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Vast topic, my friend.
The first time I paid an incredible interest to a watch, it was a Timex, given for the Xmas of my 7th birthday by my godfather. I became immediately mad, and spent 3 sleepless nights looking at the dial, shining in the darkness of the night.
Then, at 14, I saw Thomas Magnum 1675. Bingo, I made a promise to myself that I would get one one day... You know the story: first a decent job, then paying the house, then the car, and here we go.
I started with a Rolex, the GMT MASTER I promised to myself some 22 years before.
Then, I wanted to make all the professional modern Rolex: GMT MASTER, YACHTMASTER, EXPLORER II, DAYTONA. Not all, as the Submariner and the Seadweller are missing. But I was more interested in their vintage references...
So, very few years after, I made all the Pre Vendome Panerai Watches.
I also noticed some Jaeger Lecoultre which were very much my taste, as well as GP, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron, Patek, and so on... Hence I felt, very early that I need to find a " wire ", themes, topics, and my way was clearly defined: Travel Watches, Alarms, Chronographs, Diving Watches, and Military Watches.
So you know... First know yourself, then you'll know. ;-)
Best,
Nicolas
Collecting watches: main topics and sub-topics (part 1): Genta "Jumbo's" (+ 1 Hysek)
The "part 1" indicates, that I plan over time to post 5 or so notes to the above topic and I am curious to get your opinions on this: Phase 1: Starting to collect watches I assume starts with many of us evolving around either one particular brand or even ...
Vast topic, my friend.
The first time I paid an incredible interest to a watch, it was a Timex, given for the Xmas of my 7th birthday by my godfather. I became immediately mad, and spent 3 sleepless nights looking at the dial, shining in the darkness of the night. Then, at 14, ...
Thanks Nicolas, very interesting "evolution" yet at the same time very...
...recognizable. And I indeed forgot to mention: I started being in watch auctions back in the early 90ies, but it took me another 20 years or so before I had the means to start actually building a collection. Cheers, HSTE
I could not agree more! My first batches of funds went into watch books......
.....and more time spent into researching watches than into the actual purchasing.
Cool pic of your Gentas never gets old...really amazing HSTE
I started coveting watches a few years after university and had already gotten the new car out of the way. It is not surprising to hear Nicolas and others say the same in that our eyes & mouth were watering before we had enough income for this crazy h...
Thanks Joe for your feed-back. JLC and Patek are surely good choices and....
....I recognize so many things in your description: vintage furniture (which I do not have anymore), Herend (which I do not have anymore), I had my Bentley T-type (which I do not have anymore) but what stayed for more than 25 years, probably even more is ...
Themes or if you prefer guidelines... But the guideline can be large: Buying watches you like, for example. Pleasure is the best guideline.
I am just lucky to conciliate what I like with my themes. Now, the real challenge is that I like BOTH moderns and vintage. That's much more difficult than " just " liking vintage OR moderns. Best, Nicolas
Right, this is anyway ONLY about buying what you like, this is also about buying ONLY...
...what I will be able to- and what I want to wear. I can somehwat feel the trouble though if you are into vintage AND modern, that seems to be tough. I have my 10-15 modern ones but in fact I am only on vintage.
My original plan involved important automatic movements; then things got out of hand.
When I started trying to do something organized, I wanted to own important pre-quartz automatic movements: Patek 27-460, Vacheron/AP 1120/2120, Rolex 1570, IWC 85x, and then on to Omega 5xx, Universal cal. 215, Felsa Bidynator, Eternamatic, and a few othe...
Very interesting topic!
I suppose I am somewhere in phase 2 at the moment. I started with my Chopard LUC Chrono One (I guess PuristSPro can be called an accomplice in that case), the expanded with a 2014 Race Edition Mille Miglia and a LUC Sport 2000 in the two years that follow...