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Hi everyone,

Don't know about you, but I get on a real guilt trip when i own too many watches. I live by the motto of one in, one out. I currently have four watches that I am using all the time, not including a cartier and citizen that I don't use.

HOW MANY WATCHES IS TOO MANY, REALISTICALLY!! AND How many watches do you own?

As long as you can afford them and it's not a case of bankrupting yourself to add to the collection I say as many as you like!

I have three right now, listed below. Would love more but I know where my current financial limits are.

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Breitling navitimer super constellation LE
Omega Ploprof 1200m
Bremont supermarine
Rolex milgauss GV
Olivant and Botsford 40mm Gold edition

I have 7 right now, including 4 Breitlings. The most watches I've ever owned at one time is 10, although I have bought (and sold) many more ovr the years.

Personally, while the WIS part of me would like to own hundreds, I actually feel that it'd be a waste if I owned more than 10 to 12 at the most. The reason is the same as if you buy 3 or 4 in one go - each one loses a bit of it's "specialness" by being overshadowed slightly by others. If I had 30 watches, the most I'd ever get to wear each one is (obviously!) once a month, and that for me is a waste. While I have nothing at all against anyone with a huge collection, I'd personally struggle to get the most of out a collection of say 60 or 70 pieces as the vast majority of them would be lucky to be on my wrist once a year.

As you may have seen in a couple of my other posts, I'm moving towards full in-house pieces, so 10 to 12 good quality watches with in-house movements will do me just fine.

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Driver8

Site Moderator

I have two watches. I can't see mysefl getting more than six or eight.

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I lost count

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Chronomat :: Evolution Red | Evolution Frecce Tricolori | Longitude
Navitimer :: Montbrillant Eclipse | Old II | Current
Professional :: B-1 | B-2 w UTC
Colt :: GMT

Too embarrassed to even say, lol. 6 watch display boxes that each hold about 20 watches a piece, hmm, with many not able to fit into the boxes and laying around on night stands.

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Breitlingfanatic30



Montbrillant Legende (Silver Dial)
Super Avenger (Black Dial with Baton Markers)
Bentley 6.75 (Silver Storm Dial)

As the longtimers will attest, I don't reveal my collection, but I will say that 'too many' has to be a very personal decision. I have a number of pocket watches that I never wear, but that I can display and admire for their aesthetic and mechanical beauty. I also have some vintage wristwatches that aren't practical daily wearers, but I don't regret buying them for a second.

What all of my watches have in common is that they mean something to me - big or small. A time in my life, a person, an event, sometimes just remembering what I was doing when I first obtained the piece. That's a meaningful connection that I appreciate whenever I strap the watch on, even if it is only once in a while.

Here's how it started for me. When I was young and finally made enough to buy a nice watch I told myself, "This one watch will last me a lifetime". Within a couple months it turned into, "Five in rotation is the perfect amount as a collector". That idea lasted a year or two on a fairly strict one in one out method. Inevitably it turned into, "Ten let's me sample every style and brand comfortably, I'm set for life!". It just gets worse from here, but it is much easier to shed extra pieces you truly don't like anymore once you are in the double digit range.

I've been all over the map with the number I've had...currently I have 10, four of which are for sale. Not for sale, is one B SO, and the remaining five were gifts, and can never be sold. I've had as many as 20 (box holds 21), but my goal now is to sell off the four, keep one B (at a time), and cherish the gift watches, even tho they don't get worn often.

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Chad Jensen
Chronospace

Past B's-
Gray Aerospace SQ
Black Colt GMT
Gray Aerospace SQ
Black SO
Black B-1
Yellow Seawolf Ti
White B-2
Silver Colt GMT
Black Aerospace Avantage LE
Blue Aerospace Avantage
Yellow SO
Blue Aerospace II
Gray Aerospace I
Jupiter 2300

1 Ling and 4 others which pale in comparison

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Chronomat Evo (White, Arabics)
Avenger Seawolf (Black, Batons) INCOMING?

very shy to tell you that i only have 2 watches, one is swatch watch, which buy at online shop and another is a cartier watch, given by my boss! but i love these two watches quite much, they fit me so well and make me feel very satisfied!

If you're asking about nice watches, then I have 1, my new Blackbird. But if you mean watches in general then I have 6 or 7, A TAG that's broken, a Movado which I never wear (too small) a Wenger which was my daily wearer back home, a G-Shock which is my work watch and a couple more that I can't remember what they are.

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"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

i own 08 watches, 04 lings...

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Kiudog

I used to own over 20 watches, many of which were very inexpensive. Over time, however, I sold them all off and used the money to purchase watches of a higher quality. I now own less than 10 and will keep it that way, only really wearing 5. I own a Steelfish, a TAG Link Chrono, an Omega Seamaster GMT, a Victorinox Ground Force Chrono, and a Casio Pathfinder. This seems to take care of me just fine and all are of exceptional quality for their price range.

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Greg

6 right now.... 4 lings, a Panerai, and an Omega

May be 7 very soon... looking at a SOHC

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Matt

Current Breitling collection: 1)B4B GMT 2)SA 3)Chronomatic 4)B2
Current "other" collection: 1)Panerai PAM090 2)Omega SMP Co-axial 3) Omega Speedy Pro