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You get used to it. I've been wearing my AP ROO Panda all weekend, including shopping in SF. Most people would never notice or know what it is.

Yep, those were the trouble-free days. Then, we grew up and trouble followed.

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Watches were a little cheaper 5 yearrs ago also which helped.

I'm much the same although I think I would still find it very difficult to justify spending over $10k on a watch (not that I've come anywhere near that yet). I made the mistake once of buying a watch that wasn't what I really wanted and it was gone with 6 months and at a 50% loss. Oh well lesson learnt. I'm now just going to wait until I work out exactly what I want and go from there.

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Happines is Good Health and a Bad Memory.
"Ingrid Bergman"

I've only lost about $1000 on watches to date. By buying and trading. Have become quite good friends with the owner of the watch store

interesting question that dovetails into the question of why our tastes evolve the way they do. i simply wonder if our tastes truly evolve reflecting greater refinement into more stratified brands, or is this simply a result of the horology forum echo chamber. for clarification, would our taste in watches be the same were we not members of watch forums??
like roff i buy and keep so at this time i am quite content with my collection, but in the future(deep future) i may chase down a lange timezone.

I know exactly how you feel. My biggest expense for a
watch was for my IWC Big Pilot a couple years ago. But
oddly enough, I suffered no buyers remorse, which for
me is unusual. In the past, when I bought a Rolex or Breitling,
I would say to myself, "What have I done? Have I gone mad?"
But the Big P was my grail watch. To get it, I saved for several
years, as well as selling a couple of my most cherished watches.

The Big P is still the jewel in my ever-shrinking collection. Will
I ever part with it? Never! Not even if I end up a street person, God
forbid. Some possessions you just can't part with...

Steve

well that didn't take long for the list in my signature to grow from 4 to 6 watches......second hand seawolf and new Sub C since that post in quotes.

that's my spending done for this year - I hope.

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Timlaw

seawolf titanium yelow dial
rolex submariner 11610LN
panerai pam49
zenith el primero rainbow flyback
heuer monaco
tudor heritage chronograph

As you've no doubt discovered, you suddenly developed a wrist-height, spidey-6th-sense radar, and begin to walk through door openings, isles, turnstiles, and anywhere there's a crowd with your watch-wearing wrist cradled in front of your body... or (in extreme-danger-robinson! instances) under your opposite arm pit..

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a few Pams...

I can rememeber (vaguely) when I thought that $1500 was the absolute top money I could ever see myself spending on a (meaning 1 only) watch. Well because of a decent amount of excess cash in my previous business and THIS SITE, I blew past that pretty fast. It is, now, quite a bit leaner around my house and in order to get some of my current pieces I have sold two to pay for one. I also prefer to buy slightly used, so I don't have to take the intial hit on the price.

I do, kinda, miss a few of the previous watches I have owned but the one that replaced the pairs is / was more desirable to me. Funny thing though, I don't work in a white collar environment so most of my watches dont get worn very often and I have been thinking of leaning up the collection to 2-3 pieces only and using the proceeds to buy higher end pieces, just in fewer quanities.

I am actually hoping that my dealer does call me saying they got the Panerai Bronzo in. That would force a liquidation right away!

Of course the solution would be a higher income, but strangely enough a 42 who just completed his college degree in Organizational Management is having a hard time finding a management role without loads of experience.

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Breitling Steelfish(black)
Breitling Steelfish(silver)
Panerai PAM 312
Bell & Ross BR03-92 Phantom
Steinhart BreitlingSource LE #5/15

10 years ago i spenk 3k on my first breitling. i now have just about 100k at list price in watches, wtf was i thinking?!?!?

if i had al the one i sold....whoa

I think it's sometimes more a balancing of expenditure across other expensive hobbies (photography for me). But to be on topic, i like to sell my previous watch and upgrade instead of collecting.

I never spend any more than 1.2K. Thats my limit.

I have some more expensive ones in mind that I would like to buy, but they will have to wait. Its a matter of needs, wants and expectations. I don't need any of them, I want all of them, but I have to keep it in perspective............What are my expctations if I own one? Is the cost (above 1.2K) justified? IS the cost at 1.2K justified too?

Mostly, I ask myself, is it a good investment and is there a good reason to own one. That usually sorts me out because there are few reasons to really own one, apart from the desire of ownership.

Regards

JIm

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Jim

"You have Control".

For me, it started as a desire for just one, good, mechanical watch. I'd seen one that caught my eye one day whilst idly window shopping, and the pull got stronger over the coming weeks...I obsessed about it, lusted after it despite being worried about the expense in comparison to other 'things' we needed in the household, or perhaps a holiday etc.
But the pull was too strong. I'd never owned a good watch...I deserved it I told myself, and my wife agreed. The eventual purchase was far more pleasurable than I thought it would be and for a long time I was content, if still a little guilty at heart.
Of course, one of the problems in buying a good watch is becoming more aware of other good watches...the initial purchase instilled in me an interest in mechanical watches that ultimately put my once wonderful purchase somewhat in the shade, and I began to yearn for something better.
My first Breitling purchase was so much more enjoyable that the previous adventure, yet it had been a tough choice between three very different models....and although very happy with what I'd bought, I couldn't get the other two out of my thoughts. I bought the other two within a year of the first, and to this day I cant explain why on earth I let myself get so carried along with such an irrational and self centred hunger for the superfluous.
I've carried the same mixed feelings of pleasure and guilt in ownership for a few years now, and I thought my period of rash abandon had long gone. Not so it pains me to admit, having recently fallen for another watch which has instilled similar passion and unreasonable yearning in me. This time around, the price tag is mentally comparable with a decent track day car, an 18th Cent Beilby glass, a loft conversion, kitchen re-vamp or a long way toward a Beretta S05, and as such is a lot lot harder to begin to justify. I know in my heart that it woudn't stop there either..theres more to this overwhelming itch than Breitling after all.
Two things are however clear in my mercenary mind...given the chance again in hindsight, I'm happy I made the watch choices I did, rather than putting all the accumulative funds into just one piece. And most importantly, my wifes ability to absorb my little obsessions seems endless. Game on.

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"Per Ardua Ad Lingi"

I'd have to ask my wife what my threshold is

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

I like having a collection of watches. I consider myself a watch collector.

However, recently I have seriously toyed with the idea of upping my collection. All six of my watches are in the £3k to £7K bracket. By selling three of them I can move to, what I consider, the next level.

As far as having a limit on how much I would consider spending on a watch: I do not have one. If I werre rich enough I would be happy to drop £600K on a Greubel Forsey Quadruple Tourbillon. I would have had to do a lot of good work for charity first though.

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