Here's a little back story:
My first nice watch was my dad's two tone rolex datejust, black face, diamond dial. He got it around his 50th birthday as a gift from my mom. He always wanted a rolex, but he's a sweatpants and t-shirt type of guy, and so he never wore it because it was too dressy for what he wears pretty much year round (summer time means sweat shorts instead of sweat pants
). When I started getting into watches when I was 19, he nonchalantly gave it to me "here take it, I never wear it". Now it's two years later and once in a blue moon, I wear it, but for the most part it sits in my winder and I wear my Navitimer World.The dilemma:
On one hand, my dad and I both know that I would've never bought it if given the opportunity to choose what watch to buy for the same price. I'm a watch fiend with an affinity for Breitling, but I'm not that into Rolex. I'm also not into the flash of the diamonds. I only wear it if I'm dressing up. On the other hand, I appreciate the watch for it's sentimental value because it was his watch, it's a pseudo-symbol of his success (as most Rolexes are), and it's my only nice dress watch. Today, he saw me looking at watches online (as I often do) and he really liked the look of the Chronomat 01 with a black dial, and suggested I sell his Rolex and put that towards obtaining a Chronomat. I'm torn because I don't care much for the look of the Rolex, but I have a strong tie to it for sentimental reasons, and an ambivalent tie to it because it is my only dress watch. My guilt about making the change would be mitigated because it was his idea and he likes the Chronomat (he even joked that the Chronomat would be his watch a la the Rolex), but I'm still unsure about making the change for the sentimental reasons and because it would leave me without a nice dress watch. Thoughts?
