Reply With QuoteNah the best I get is you can only wear one at once so surely you don’t need all those watches!
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My wife just said that my Panerai looks like a Russian washing machine...
How about your better halves? Any such 'compliments'?
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Christian
Nah the best I get is you can only wear one at once so surely you don’t need all those watches!
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I am lucky i guess, she occasionally picks one out, asks me to change the strap and wears it.
My watches on bracelets are safe...Oddly enough there are some which wich will never go on straps!
I am saving for a Speedy Pro and she is all for it saying that it will look good on her....me-thinks i will only find one on a bracelet.
Haha that’s the sort of thing mine would say and in this instance I’d probably agree with her !
My wife is not a fan of NATO straps - "why are you wearing that on a bit of nylon, it looks cheap and nasty".
Your wife is dead right !
Yup, I get that - you spent how much on that watch to put it on a £12 nylon strap?Originally Posted by gbn13
Ah dear, this isn’t just any old nylon, it’s one of Eddie’s.
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Not much enthusiasm, nothing against watches in particular. More a case of she tells me that over the years she has invested her interest in something that I have just bought only for me to to sell it a few weeks later.
She just says, very nice, when you selling that then.
Just get humoured now. I think that asking her opinion now and again seems to get a decent reply and actually she has talked some sense into me more than once.
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Vintage Ploprof looks like an electronic tag apparently.
She’s got form, however. Put the skids on a purchase of a Jensen Interceptor when I was in my mid-20s saying ‘you looked ridiculous, like you were driving a Welsh dresser’. Still a sore point 15 years later.
Not much enthusiasm from Mrs R.
"What, another one?" she will say in a huff, and promptly roll her eyes.
Snap, I get the same reply along the the roll of the eyes.
Different when she has new shoes or a handbag on the horizon!
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She stopped getting annoyed years ago and now humors me and pretends she's interested!
Very disappointed to click on this thread and find out it’s not a photo gallery.
My wife isn't that interested in watches but she does throw the odd compliment may way, particularly regarding the vintage Smiths and Bensons.
She thinks very highly of this forum (and yes, she's well aware of the content of some of the subforums).
I remember putting one of Eddies £5 canvas straps on an Explorer 1, my wife noticed it and basically said “you have put a Rolex on THAT?? Put it back on its bracelet.”
That said, she is a very good judge when it comes to matching straps to watches. It’s no accident that every outfit she wears is coordinated, even the jodhpurs/fleece combos she wears to the stable colour match.
Having listened to me blether about watches all these years, I have pushed useful information out of her brain and filled it with watch trivia. She has began watch spotting on TV shows! She is VERY critical of poor timepiece choices, especially a colleague who wears a Tissot T-Touch all the time, even to weddings.
She is tolerant of my compulsive flipping, as long I as didn’t lose too much money. My wife will examine a new arrival on my wrist and give an estimate of how long I will keep it for...
In return my brain is stuffed with equestrian facts and snippets of information absorbed from the “reality” TV programmes she watches sitting next to me!
Dave
P.S. one of the few times she has been disappointed in me and/or this forum, was a GTG which was a thinly veiled epic piss up involving a visit to strip club.
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My wife has very little interest in watches, her comments are either non- existent or negative.
However, she has expressed a dislike for the Omega Dynamic........I’ve got two in the collection and two in the projects drawerA late 60s ‘modern’ watch that was fashionable in it’s day, a design classic in my opinion, but one she actively dislikes.
Paul
"What the actual *fudge* are you doing spending that much on a watch?"
"What the actual *fudge* are you buying another watch for?"
"What the actual *fudge* are you looking at more watches for?"
Tend to hear those fairly frequently!
I’ve just ordered a Panerai from Chronext. The response was, you’ve done what followed by another watch. I’ve not had the how much bit yet so I’m keeping my head down.
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And what you doing meeting strangers in a snow covered car park on a Sunday. That’s what I got anyway.
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A selection of comments from the past week as I try to justify a new addition:
How f$%*ing much?
Another f$%*ing watch?
How many watches do you need?
They all look the same.
Will we be able to sell them if we go broke?
Just no understanding have they Andy!
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"jesus thats brighter than the bloody sun, turn it off!"
last night after i'd charged the lume on my Borealis Cascais before bed
ktmog6uk
marchingontogether!
On the rare occasion that I show her a recent acquisition her usual response is
”Haven’t you already got one exactly like that?”
My wife is pretty understanding when I get another watch, it might have something to do with that I bought her another Cartier
Along the lines of some posts already when I picked up my Pepsi 1675, already owning a Pepsi 16710...
“Why do you have two watches the same”
On my root beer...
“That looks like something a 70s pimp would wear. It’s disgusting”
On my (now sold) Blackbay....
“That looks like a Rolex but it isn’t. Is it a fake Rolex?”
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Sure mine is watchist, she reckons they "all look the same".
A lot of my watches have been good investments compared to a lot of the other calamities I've put money into so I get a fairly easy time of it.
That said, 'They all look the same' is an enduring theme.
Awesome thread which made me smile :-)
I have been on the receiving end of many of those comments several times. LOL
Have to agree. Though perhaps the wrong sub-forum!
She said what? about buying what?
And you listened? Man up
"... but you've already got one that looks exactly like that"
"no, I sold that one to part fund this one".
"WHAT?? You're a *insert appropriate dirty word* idiot!"
My wife hates my Omega stardust. Which doesn't really matter because the date window surround fell off about 18months ago and its been with my watch repairer friend ever since.
She glazes over when I mention any of my watches TBH.
She has no taste in watches though. She has a Swatch with a silver multi strand bracelet. Well, she had because I refused to change the bracelet over if she bought a new Swatch because they are rubbish things she somehow manages to smash all the time.
Instead I managed to get her to buy a ladies Mondaine so her WIS credibility has gone up 10 fold. I'll kill her if she smashes this on the edge of a desk like she did the last Swatch.
I get that!
That's hilarious..! I have a vision of a floppy hat, a cane and a Cadillac.
"How many of those black-faced dive watches do you *really* need?"
I hear that a lot too. And occasionally: “I’m so glad I’m not one of your watches.”
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My wife likes the Rolex watches that I have and surprisingly she likes the Daytona the most, and sometimes wears it, whereas I don't really care for it.
She also thinks, the same as I do, that the current Rolex models are way too blingy.
Overall she is very supportive of the hobby.
Wife, give up asking her a while ago. I now consult with my 12 year old daughter, much better taste and much more understanding !
There is much to be said for living in separate houses. Packages arrive and only I know, not that she would care what I buy.
Mine is not interested in handbags or shoes. She gets excited by A3 laser printers and vinyl cutters or exercise machines for her daily exercise regime.
My wife doesn't care. As long as they are not crazily expensive. So I could have 10 x £250 watches but a £5k upwards might be pushing it. having said that if it was interest free over 2 years then that may alter her opinion. We can always find a better use for £5k upwards and I have a box with a number of expensive watches not getting wrist time so I can see her point
Whilst my wife has no particular interest in watches, she is generally aware of the cost.
This effectively means that when I buy another watch, I accept that it is a stick I may be beaten with! I.e. If a month later wifey suggests certain household expenditure that she considers essential, but I don't, her view tends to prevail - "so how come we had the spare cash for you to buy another watch, but you are now saying you don't want to spend money on the house?"
My wife's not that interested in watches, but seems to tolerate my interest in them more than for other things.
Early on in my watch interest we went into an Jewellers and I tried on a Longines Hydroconquest Blue.
"What do you think?", I asked.
"It's exactly the same as the one you're wearing", she replied.
vs
I struggled a bit with that one...
M
This is great its the vanilla SFW version of Dear Wife....
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(Gf) Not much interest but when a response is requested:
Loves - Pepsi GMTs
Likes - Black bezel Rolex
Dislikes - AP RO and particularly the ROO.
"What's the difference between that one and the other one?" - Panerai
I've trained mine too well. She loves Nato's and wearing one of Eddie's creations when she goes out for the evening. Can't complain really.
I have a rather interesting watch with a yellow dial. I actually bought it as the first mechanical watch for my 11 year old son but he doesn't like wearing it so I put it on occasionally. My wife refers to it as the "jaundiced" one :(
She also doesn't understand the concept of having multiple watches and thinks I should just be content with my nicest watch. Then I make the same old and trusted points about handbags:
- How many do you need?
- You need to move contents from one to another when you want to rotate, yet you continue to do it.
- You are often missing something because you have left it in the other bag when you did the above but it doesn't put you off.
- You can't recover the money spent on one and use it to buy another.
She never agrees and says "it's different". Ends the argument for the day though lol.
Unfortunately my missus loves her watches, and just very recently got another.
There is a good side and a bad side to this......................
The bad being she has a small collection of 4........................ when I could have bought something more for myself ;-)
The good being she doesn't b**ch when i get something, she understands the disease.
My missus took my BLNR and even paid me for it, so now it’s officially hers. We both got a daytona so now she has a daytona and a blnr as her “collection”. Really impressed tbh her colllection is superior to most blokes i know in the office LOL
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Great thread, some very familiar phrases listed so far :)
My wife is reasonably supportive, she favours any hobby if it means I don't break any more bones or go hurtling myself off something. She normally comments on the more colourful watches in my collection such as seiko monster, superocean etc "thats nice, suits you". Thing is, she never asks how much but I suspect her idea of what they all cost me is quite different than the reality!
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