Horological Meandering

a good friend of mine, who is in this forum and if he is willing, identify himself. lets just call him Arthur for starters(hey...it rhythms!! - Arthur for Starters); is suffering from a severe case of horofatigue. he has sought help, from freinds who prescribed quackery treatment like buy a GO Panoretrograph, to professional help from reowned horology commentators who precribed treatment like buy a grand seiko.

Horofatigue symptoms include loss of horo-appetite, SIHH stands for Sex in Hygienic Hotels, walking past a AD shop causes nausea, surfing Puristspro leading to forcible ejection of ones lunch thru the mouth.

lets share if you have suffered from horofatigue experiences before. feel free to add to list of symptoms.

how do you extract yourself from horofatigue? and do you known anyone who suffered horocoma?

Best,

Horo

This message has been edited by Hororgasm on 2011-01-24 22:27:50

because it starts to shrink your bank accounts alarmingly !!!  

Couple that with when the financial controller on the domestic front tightens on internal audits .......

Even a mega overdose antiemetic will not help matters.......

 

"Arthur" should start meddling with overlord and warlord to take his mind of things horo .......... bring back the balance and the force

 

Are long disposed....

What's the saying.. if you've been around long enough, you seen all the BS.  My problem is seeing so much BS of late and it's only 2 years plus for me  :-0

...is to simplify your perspective and scope.  Get back to the core aspects of the endeavor that drew you in initially.  If you've been making back-to-back purchases, or getting copies of every enthusiast magazine to pore over day and night, maybe take a breather from those activities for a time.  Detoxing from the constant stimulation of new releases, new desires, new marketing ploys is refreshing to say the least.  I go through periods of refocusing my energy toward different aspects of my hobbies.  I find this helps.

Good luck!
Daos

Its really the marketing ploys that I think is the main cause. Although I succumb not to them, I guess it just sickens me for reasons I best not say to be respectful to others.

How about hanging out in TimeOut more? You can still be with Purist friends, but horology discussion is kept at the periphery. And you can then duck into the watch fora only when you feel like it.

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Fortunately, some brands release some stimulant in SIHH recently.  It helps.

Regards

Ling

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Arthur aka "Fat Fingers" ?
It was back in the beginning of 2010 when I can fondly recall his typo that made some coffee come out of my nose.It was an innocent comment on a post about the Moser Mayu with some beautiful photographs.I believe the quote was "The movement and shits of it are fantastic"
These famous words have stuck with me like a wad of gum to the bottom of my shoe..
Hopefully something will catch his eye and land on his wrist to relieve this dilemma soon.
My though's and prayers are with Fat Fingers during this trying time and I wish him the best...

so i cannot confirm or deny.

Best, Horo

Just type "shits" into the Forum Search engine and Arthur's famous mistype is the first hit.

A

When I was a kid my mother typed the weekly church news bulletin. In one infamous typo she invited everyone to our house on Sunday evening for "... a time of fellowship and sining."

People talked about that for years. And I seem to remember there was a better attendance than usual!

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thats a great story, it should retold in TimeOut.

Best, Horo

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about 5 years ago.  For about 3 years I didn't step into watch shops.  I knew my case was serious when I didn't browse watch magazines anymore.  It happened quite suddenly and till today, I have yet to figure out why. 

Now, I'm well again, though my bank account isn't.

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As sudden as the onset of the horocoma, about two years ago i found myself recovering. No specific cure and reasons. But having friends showing you their new watches and the ADs having frequent sales (probably due to The Crisis then, nowadays hardly any sales) helped also.

What's interesting to note is that I'm more passionate for watches now than before the horocoma.

That's my experience. Thanks for reading.

There are numerous cases where they have patients in horocoma that suddenly awakes, and withdraw substantial amounts of monies from their bank accounts to purchases time pieces. And they cannot recall all those months/years they spent in horocoma.

Best,

Horo

... in varying degrees for all of us. It is rare in life that you will be fixated or enamored with the same thing in the same way over long periods of time. Even relationships mature and change, hopefully for the better, but not always. You can probably never recapture the same excitement and thrill of discovery as when you were completely new to horology, had never heard of a Tourbillon and didn't know how a perpetual calendar could keep track of the next 100 years.

Unfortunately the 'cure' is an individual one; none of us can tell you the trick to rekindle your interest, because you have to find your own key for that lock. Some never do, and there are plenty of PuristS, some once very active, that have sadly left us. Personally I would find some piece of important horological history and investigate it thoroughly. Perhaps the development of the perpetual calendar, or the evolution of the Omega Seamaster. Stay away from sparkly new-fangled watches that look like spaceships and trigger some primordial 'boy zone' in our brainstems, and get stuck into some horological meat and potatoes. Get some old movements, a few tools and pull them apart. Buy some books on horology. Visit a Manufacture, or get some watchmaking videos (the GO one is a good start).

And don't take any of it too seriously.

Oh, and post all you learn about horology and yourself here on PuristS!

Andrew

Makes the most sense to me. Returning to what originally drew you in.

Get out the 1st watch you bought, put it on and go out. Get some good friends together and start sharing the original intention of how you decided to buy this watch. and when u look at it now, how the feelings have changed or didn't change. Ask your friends to share theirs too.

As the old chinese saying -  " things r dead while human r alive". A watch by itself is nothing much once u go beyond the technicalities. What's more important is the memories that you have while wearing / owning it. What i like is for my watch to remind me of the times & experience of my life. In that way, a watch is not just a watch but a testimony of time in one's life.

Best,
Tyler

"if things come alive, you are dead in your wife's eyes"

Jokes aside, I know, this thread has become some sort of a humor thread, I totally get you and you had me at hello. That's why I will NEVER sell my JLC Reverso, my first serious time piece. Nor would I sell my grand dad's omega.

Best, Horo

Didn't even have a watch. All he left behind is a pipe that he use it to smoke opium! Not much use to me

Best
Tyler