Waaaah!
How did that happen???
I think I'm healed... :S
No, seriously, I woke up the other day and did feel neither the urge to enlarge my watch collection, nor the ever so present thought about what watch to purchase next.
I thought I must've still been dreaming, so I pinched myself repeatedly... But to no avail. Desperate, I ran into the study and consulted the latest Chronolog: nothing... no desire at all. The watch most appealing to me was the one I'm wearing on my wrist as I type this, my trusty Navi. Well, perhaps the Rolex catalog would help. But again, nothing but my GMT II C really hit the sweet spot when I flipped through the pages. This could impossibly be real.
Next thing I know, I was speeding towards Bahnhofstrasse. Surely, the glittery shop windows of the city center's various ADs, holding the pieces between my hands, feeling them around my wrist... All that would necessarily reestablish the lusting I had felt ever since I started collecting watches... It had to... For what else could?
I went to the brand new IWC store first... I don't have an IWC, so if anything would have made me want to enlarge my collection, it would have been an IWC... After all, how could I not need an IWC, right?
Wrong.
Although I rather liked the new St. Exupery pilot chrono, no buying urge ensued.
So I went to the JLC AD, played around with a Seals diver and master control chrono, just to decide I didn't like either one.
Off to the Breitling AD then, where I found out I really like the TO Unitime with the silver dial... But don't want to have one (too large).
Same at the Rolex boutique with the 42mm Expy II... Nice, but I don't like the overly large hands enough to spend any money on them.
This was beginning to become really scary for an admitted addict...
And not even Felix Baumagartner's energydrink infused PR Stunt could fix it by making the Zenith Stratos any droolwothier than it was when I decided it was just not for me...
Exhausted and desperate... I sat down near the lake and quite awkwardly... I suddenly felt extremely satisfied. It came to me that I'm most lucky to have a collection of watches which I really love and that literally leave me wanting for nothing more.
As an all too often restless mind found its peace, I was happy.
And I think... I really am healed!
Disclaimer: please read with a bit of second degree humor, though it would undoubtedly have looked rather funny, I did not actually run through the streets, yelling and screaming in despair, between the various AD visits I conducted over the last weeks
I also have not sworn off to consumerism entirely... Or at all really. Just thought I'd share a thought.
. If all it takes is to buy a Navitimer, may well give it a try!