Horological Meandering

Yes, I do notice many have tonnes of watches and sometimes I wonder how often do you wear them?

I've always tried my very best to keep my collection to three (sorry I'm not one who puts them in safe boxes and not wear them til I remember I actually owned one).

My current 'daily' wear includes my Patek and Dato and my dressdown and weekend watch is my speedy.

(yes, I own more than 3 watches (maybe 5) but that's not the topic today )

What's yours?

Mech,

u're truly rite, mech.

the thing is that u buy and wear...so i decided to take out my fav grails from my safe , and during this long holiday, can take turns to wear..

Well, yesterday afternoon, found that it's a perfect match for this one :



then, took a shot of this



so, remaining three will get their turns.....

This thing is crazy, there's no turning point.....LOL

Ben, looks like your collecting is piling up?

I like the matching strap and belt

Mech.

I was considering to add a Black Explo II to my White Explo II, but I will add a difficulty.

As my Explo II is a bit special, I will try to find not a 16570,, but a black dialed 16 550.

Best.

Nicolas

I wear all my watches, but rarely do I wear a watch more than once in any given week. 

Craig

Though I love buying watches but I also wear all of them.  I try not to count the watches I have - it is embarrasing. 

My mode of rotation is subjective but I do try to be more organised by having them in grouped in dress, casual and sporty.  Each watch assumes duty for about a week. 

So virtually all my watches goes through the "daily wear" detail but sometime not the whole day if it comes to dress watches as most of my watches are in leather or croco strap.   Each day would have at least two watches ready to be picked up and put on the wrist.

For this week - its the Vulcain and the IWC that I put on as "daily" wear.  This week becomes sort of retro week for me.

 

W72

I thought this was the last of an extinct species!

Mike

This message has been edited by cazalea on 2008-09-29 13:59:37

This is my official answer, as there is a more dificult to give in Public, but we're in Family, here, so I will also tell you that I'm a bit superstitious.

So, it depends of the mood of the day, but in some circumstances, like a difficult case to plead, I can also choose my watch of the day by superstition...

I wear them ALL.

Sometimes, I forget one, and while viewing my collection, I have the pleasure to re discover some, like the U.N Chrono Monopusher, or the IWC Portuguese 5000 ( 8 Days with plexy Glass ).

I love to go from a complicated watch to a more simple, to a big watch to a smaller, well, I love contrasts.

I agree with you, watches are made to be worn, and if not the case, I sell them.

Today, it will be the turn of a watch I didn't wear for a while, the PP Calatrava 5196P.

Best, my friend.

Nicolas

 

i realise there are many here fortunate enough to have tens or even hundreds of time pieces but for me i have a rule that i will wear all my pieces more than five or six time keepers is very hard to shuffle so lately i have been wearing my BP all day of the week  my Pam or ML for evening and  UN for weekend out doors still waiting on MIH to arrive so there will be another to rotate hmmm tough choices to be made.

All of my dress watches are vintage, so I try not to subject them to the daily rigors of signing papers and beating up sales reps ;o).

Here are the three that see the most action.

Cheers, Joe

. . . and wear all of them regularly, some more than others; it's the two gold watches that have to wait for a special occasion to get any wrist time. Cordially, Art

H iguys,

These are not more that 45days,so having the most of my wrist time,

Especially this light and tough guy..PAM25,deserve the most wrist time ,simply to friendly on my wrist.

Thanks.

BHK9

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sometimes a change at night.. but this one 80% of the time

my fav chronograph!



Fr.Xavier

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Put it on the black gator for a more formal look:



Simon

Great watch, and nice Daily Beater!

Best, my friend!

Nicolas

Somehow the odd ducks have migrated to my watch box at work (handy if you can trust the janitor).
Today that means I have an Omega f300, an Accutron Spaceview, and an old Seiko Skyliner.

But at home, I seem to be fixated on black watches at the moment. In past week I've swapped between:





ABR
MIH
IWC Top Gun
Sinn 656S
BP Aqua Lung
Grand Seiko

 

each week will wear a different one but these 2 weeks wearing SS Daytona as lazy to take out from the safe + long holiday. it is not that I like to keep in the safe but for safety consideration then you have to it that way.

2 at a time, 1 on each wrist, change every 2-3 days, doesnt matter if its freak and sea-gull together i just pick 2 that take my fancy on the day. however, if i'm doing something a bit rougher than normal i'll put on my current 'tool' watch, my Railmaster. the ABR will probably replace it as the tool but who knows. i have 2-3 that i rarely wear as perhaps i bought in haste, a Zodiac astrographic, Sea-gull st19 chrono and Orient star pvd power reserve. i wear them, but not as often as all the others, orient star may well pass to my eldest step son as he's now 13 and wearing a swatch auto daily which he's doing a good job of knackering as teenagers do.

i think if i worked for a living i would have a smaller list of daily wearers depending on what was doing. when i was a copper i wore a G-Shock at work, had i been a desk jockey i could have worn anything.

bit boring contribution, but a contribution none the less

Graham 

But no safe queens. I really try to give all them all decent rotation since I enjoy them all. Some new, but mostly vintage Omegas and others. The dressier ones are harder to wear on a daily basis, since we work out of home offices, but all get a good outing. It's all about pleasing yourself!