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Very interesting post, Jerome
"Are our watches depending on our life style, or is our life style influenced by our watches?" What a great question. My truth is neither. I often want watches that are not suitable for my lifestyle, but just because they strike my fancy or push some buttons. Maybe if I get a diver, I will start diving, however...nah, doubtful.
I wonder why so many of us get bitten by the diving watch bug, when we have no intention to dive nor need for such watches. First of all, one must distinguish between diving and swimming watches. I would not include either the EWA (Tides or otherwise) or the PP5167 among diving watches -- they are more for casual swimming, no? Ah, but what beautiful swimmers they are! They are both, to me, very luxurious sportswatches, but just outside of the true diving class.
I fully agree with your observation, "You never get done with JLC!" I could easily welcome almost any number of additional JLCs onto my wrist and every year there seems to be yet another object of my desire from Le Sentier. Which brings me to another thought, Jerome: I do not think you need both re-editions of the Polaris and the Navy Seal alarm and the AMVOX1 -- really, you are too greedy with the JLC alarms. I propose that you allow your 65 Polaris to migrate to my collection, where it would find a happy home and would not be jealous of the other alarms on your wrist.. I have no alarm yet, after all. ;-)
And don't get rid of your suits. Just add wet suits to your collection.
Thanks for the intersting Sunday post.
respo
Watch addiction and addiction to life!
Dear fellow watch addicted PuristS, I spent the last 20 years dreaming about watches and the last ten years buying some (just a few, definitely not enough). One common intention for all my watches was to wear them daily! I generally don't keep those I don...
congrats !
Very nice sporty collection! Which will be next ? Your choice I prefer Amvox or Revereso Squadra OR something from the classic line, eg Reverso, Ultrathin or the complicated watches. Cheers, Milan
Thanks
Hi Milan, Indeed once I'll have got (and paid what the problem is) the Atmos Newson, then the Diving Alarm Navy Seals, I may opt for an Amvox2 and a Squadra Polo Fields! Then maybe winter will come and I'll look for an ultra thin 38mm and a Duometre befor...
Ouchh!!!
your bank account will not be very happy- On the other hand your wrist will be lol Cheers
Very interesting post, Jerome
"Are our watches depending on our life style, or is our life style influenced by our watches?" What a great question. My truth is neither. I often want watches that are not suitable for my lifestyle, but just because they strike my fancy or push some butt...
Very interesting answer Respo.....
Hi, First let me be clear! The 65 is not going to leave my modest stable. In fact the Amvox1 recently made room for it! I've too long been tempted by watches that didn't fit my life style. I'm still! I'm resisting. Did I let watches influence my lifestyle...
No more AMVOX1?
Very interesting thoughts from you, Jerome. I share your view. That is why I began with the JLC EWC, so that there would be fewer limits on my activities due to what I am wearing on my wrist. And that is why I generally reach for the EWC most often. Am I ...
I sincerely hope....
that they are not safe queens.... A watch is made to be worn, maybe not all of the time, but at least sometimes A great watch that is not worn is, in my opinion, a great shame and an "insult" to the watchmaker that did his/her best to create it Cheers
I love this post
Perhaps an anology could be the business man overhauling his wardrobe in favour of contempory fashion's slimmer cuts, consisting of one and two button jackets. I seem to do this every couple years, but I always keep the classics. Whatever fits and is clas...
Enthusiast
"I am by no means a collector, just an enthusiast" -- I like the choice of words. I think "enthusiast" is the perfect word to describe many of us non-collectors. respo
I wonder what would be the perfect psychologist watch?
Hi, I'm happy to hear that you're back to the positives in Canada! You express what I wish: I want watches that will inspire (and aspire) me to new adventures or activities! I've not regreted departed watches so far! Hopefully others will go soon and I'm ...
We're now at 20 degrees in Toronto and my AD called
to say 25 new JLC pieces are arriving this month. This could be dangerous inspiration I'm still looking for the watch that makes me younger, smarter and better looking, but I'm sure JLC will make it. lol
23° here today!
Hi, 25 new watches to choose from should be enough ! No idea which ones it could be! Good luck for the challenge. Cheers Dje
You're welcome!
Hi, Watches are part of our existences! They must not define us as materialists IMO! Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts! Cheers Dje
difficult choices....
the Tides of Time is a great watch- I tried it for size (not the exact one, its brother- the regular edition) but it seemed a tad to big on my wrist- I guess it is the way it wraps around my wrist..... But if it fits on your wrist, go for it is a great ch...
In fact it does not fit my wrist
Hi, I love the colour of the Tides of Time, but it does not fit my wrist! The Diving Alarm on the contratry...... Cheers Dje
then....
the answer is quite obvious- Navy Seals, a beauty that I am also considering Cheers
James Bond Makes Do With only Diving Watches...
Ian Fleming's books and many of the James Bond movies pairs the superspy with very sporty diving watches rather than watches than formal watches. We live in a day where the elegance of a Rolex Submariner (or any other diving watch of your choice) is easil...
I'm not ready for that
Hi, I would not wear a watch on bracelet with a tuxedo! Not a diving alarm either! But I don't wear tuxedos! The Polaris is nice with a suit, a modern waterproof Geophysic would be nice too! Cheers Dje
Wow! What a post, Dje!
You ask some questions that really get down to the marrow of who we are, and how and why we wear our watches! Your question, "Are our watches depending on our life style, or is our life style influenced by our watches?" is an interesting one. For me, the ...
Enjoy your summer too!
Hi, A vintage Submariner or a Legend Diver are indeed excellent proposals for diving tuxedo watches! And I could have worn them this afternoon while swimming in the ocean (still a bit cold at 17/18°). The NSA would have been perfect! Cheers Dje
Not yet for me.
I see myself as kind of the opposite giving up the sporty for the dress watch. Though it does not mean I dislike sporty watches, I am just more a laid back, sentimental person. Maybe I am more pen than sword? If I had to buy a diver's watch to actually go...
Interesting vision indeed
Hi, Of course I'm not forgetting the Richard Lange, that would be my perfect dress watch! But if they could only make a sport version of it! Cheers Dje
Well, Jerome, there are a lot of things to be said
First of all, you gave an interesting definition of Collectors, in reference to those who simply add watches. I think that the boarder is very thin between adding and collecting watches, and we can also collect watches we wear. In fact, I only collect wat...
You made me curious, Nicolas:
You miss the 2 or 3 vintage diving pieces to end an “overall” collection of 21 watches or a collection of 21 diving watches? I think I know the answer but want to be sure Marcelo
It will be an exciting day...
...for all of us to see the two watches that will complete your diving collection! When complete, will you promise to take a table shot or some other type of photo to commemorate the occasion? Perhaps, it will be a good opportunity for the jamón to return...
Yes, Daos
I promise I will try, because taking a pic of so many watches is not that easy... As for the Inglorious Basterd, you have to thank ( and me to damn ) Filip for his brilliant Photoshop work )... I had to be just near Mrs Kruger, it was MY place... Damn Bel...
Diane Kruger
Due mostly to where I live, I've seen my share of celebrities in the flesh, and some fail to live up to their images on TV or film. This is, of course, understandable, as there are people who assist them in looking perfect in their professional lives, so ...
Interesting opinion Nicolas
Hi, Interesting opinion , even if I don't totally share it! In fact I'm mad, but not as much as you! I don't have collection objectives, I just appreciate to wear fine watches. Obviously your collection, that I have opportunities to try and appreciate, wh...
A lot going on in this post Dje
I agree with you on collecting watches; what's the purpose to own a watch which you'll never wear? Ok, for investment maybe, but else? My biggest problem with dress watches is that I always tend to be to carefull with them, even though they house fine and...
I would disagree...
on the dressy/sport of JLC There are several models that can be both- apart from the polaris, you have the Amvox I, Amvox II and the squadra- The reverso was created for polo players and has evolved into a dressy watch- I think that it can be both Several...
Excellent point of view
Hi Starman, Excellent point of view! I too hope to see more tough JLCs, specially if not too sporty looking! The Explorer 1 is indeed a perfect exemple of a watch (I love) that is a perfect mix or center between sport and just tough casual! A JLC version ...
Very nice!
Hi Dje, Must have missed your Kontiki post. My grandfather did also wear Eterna watches as did my father who is now more into Rolex. I allready got my fathers Eterna which is broken after being hit by a hammer during some construction work (yep, you can't...
Watches for life, or life of watches
What a fantastic posting. You just have to be writing exactly what so many people think. It is indeed a massive dilemma. I sat down with my son recently and decided to go through the watch collection to determine when I would actually wear each watch. Tha...
for Jogging...
or rather for running I would recommend Polar- not much innovation but it has the best heart rate.... Cheers
You apparently have more different opportunities to wear watches than I do!
Hi, I've given up dinning with Her Majesty or the Prime Minister ! My good friends will invite me with or without any watch! Hopefully my wife too! For the world time chronograph the Reverso Squadra Polo Fields would be perfect! I jog with my PAM210 gener...
oooh yes...the squadra
I am very much trying to find a purpose for buying that. Maybe it could become my "wednesday" watch?
The Perfect Squadra
As you wrote, "Too bad the Polo Fields is not a diving watch too!! That could have been the one! " I have found myself thinking nearly the same thing. Indeed, I have been thinking a lot about the Squadra line, and believe I have come to the following conc...
we can wait
Hi, We can wait. I'm sure we'll see many other Squadra models in the future. A swimmer Reverso would be nice, with a screw down crown (they had it on the Grand Sport), rated 100m at less, and a special function on the back. That could be nice. Cheers Dje