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I'm with most of you who said there's probably a finite/optimum number that I'd be happy with in order to a) wear them all an appropriate amount, and b) appreciate them nough without being "degraded" by constant new additions.

I think my optimum number would be around 10. I think this probably goes back to the thread that asked, "Are you an enthusiast or a collector". To me, and while I fully appreciate they are not mutually exclusive states, I think a collector will carry on buying more and more, even if some of them will never see any wrist time as a result of being in such a large collection, whereas an enthusiast will (probably) want to be able to appreciate each piece more in it's own right, so may have a smaller collection, even if their financial position would allow them to own a vast collection if they so desired.

Obviously I am generalising somewhat here (some may say stereotyping!) as there's no doubt there is overlap between the two in some cases : for example, I'd put Roff in the collector AND enthusiast camp.

Personally I currently have 6 watches, but if I'm honest, none of them would make my "long-term keeper" list! I still have plans to create that collection, but it's kind of on hold at the moment.

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Driver8

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I'm with Diver & Sharkie, I think 10-12 will be the magic number for me. Currently with 7, I feel the pressure of giving each equal & fair wrist time in a week -- and that's just too stressful! With 10-12, I'd be able to forget the math & just enjoy whichever piece happened to be on my wrist

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a few Pams...

I have seven "good" watches, a perfect old vintage Accutron, a couple I would sell but they're not worth much, and an old Seiko my wife bought me for Christmas when we were first married and every dollar mattered. I stop and think about which one to wear for more than a moment on several mornings. The two-tones tend to give me the most pause--do I really need to wear this much watch to work today? But then, why have them? Most everybody at the office now knows I'm a "watch guy", so it shouldn't be as big an issue, but I still think about it. And yes, I feel pressure to wear a watch if I haven't worn it in ten days or so. I can't explain why. I do choose a watch sometimes because I haven't worn it in a couple of weeks. I seldom wear the same watch on consecutive days.
Most days, I check the attire and choose a watch. My blue face and champagne face watches are more limited, at least for me, and my pearl face (one of the two-tones), though I love it, probably causes me to wear it less because it is dressy. For all the fretting, however, it's worth going through because its a pleasure and a privilege to have the watches I have, and I hope never to lose sight of that.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

Thanks to all who posted. I have now worn my newest purchase (Avenger Seawolf SS in yellow) for the past three days since I acquired it on Saturday (see attached pic). The SuperOcean Heritage (although buying it a few weeks ago) remains in the winder for now. I guess once the "newness" of the Seawolf wears off I will go back to wearing all my watches in a regular rotation. I think the Seawolf will remain my weekend watch especially once the black Ocean Racer strap arrives later in the week. The sad part I guess is that a newly acquired watch kind of pushes all the other washes to the winder for a while. Does this happen with anyone else?

Maybe I should start my own style of wearing a watch on both wrists!!!! Think I could get this to catch on???

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Marc

Current rotation:

2011 Oris Great Barrier Reef LE
2010 Omega Planet Ocean Big Size
2010 Breitling Avenger Seawolf SS
2008 Baume Mercier Classima
2007 Breitling SuperOcean Heritage 46

flavor flav use to wear a clock on around his neck so you could do the 2 watches

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

I would agree with this. I feel like I have enough time pieces at the moment. My BlackBird can be worn with a suit or a t-shirt and has a chrono...I like to wear my Omega on vacations and to the beach/ocean/snorkeling, and my PAM is generally brought out on dates with the wife on the weekends or special "dress" scenarios. I'm in the market for a vintage piece strictly for special dress up situations and would love a Patek - all 3 of my watches are relatively bulky and somewhat tough with cufflinks - so a thinner vintage timepiece for dressy situations would be a nice touch.

However, I will concede that when I get a new watch, I look for excuses to wear it....I'll actually wear it to bed if I don't have an "everyday" situation to wear it in....cheeky....childish....? I dunno...but as I get older, very few things "geek" me out as much as a new watch

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PAM359, Omega PO Big Size, 1951 Omega Seamaster, Rolex Sea Dweller

I think it's completely normal. You have a new watch with all the fun and novelty of acquiring it. Don't feel the least bit bad if it dominates your wrist for a couple of weeks. By then I suspect the euphoria will have calmed down a little and you mix in your other watches. Give it time, though if one keeps getting left, out, it might be transaction time.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

I have three that I wear..a gold rolex when appropriate, a 2011 super avenger with black dial and batons I wear whenever I can, and a casio MTG for all other times.. Since the winder keeps the rolex and the super avenger wound everyone is happy...


Mohan

I have always thought vintage might be the way to go for a high dress timepiece. Im not talking your dressy work watch but more your tuxedo watch. A nice simple vintage gold would check quite a few boxes for me.

At the price of just under £6,000 for the watch I want,watch number 2 is a loooooooooooooooooooooooong way of until I win the lottery then I'll be a woman pocessed