Reply With QuoteOmega Speedmaster professional at 30. Rolex Explorer at 40 and lots of cheaper offerings in between.
First luxury watch (Omega SMP) at 35, first Rolex (1680) at 38.
I no longer own either of them!
Omega Speedmaster professional at 30. Rolex Explorer at 40 and lots of cheaper offerings in between.
Assuming a Hamilton qualifies, 28. Otherwise just a couple of months ago, 34. The problem is that scratching the itch makes you more itchy!
22 - Breitling Seawolf from here and then my Submariner Ceramic from my local AD before they stopped selling Rolex. 5 years ago now.
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18, a Tag Heuer F1 with my first full time salary! I still have it, though don't wear it. My first Rolex at 30/31 and I've had a handful since plus Omega/IWC/JLC and others Inbetweeners. Currently have an Omega, Bremont and Rolex, plus the Tag, G-shock, Suunto.
One of the early "Bond" Seamasters, aged 25.
Tag auto when I was 18 and the first Rolex a sub date when I was 23.
21- Rolex Sea-Dweller.
I bought Tag Heuer Link as my second watch when I was 19 or 20.
When I was 28 or 29 I lost my mind and I now at 32 have ca. 30 watches.
Edit. And yes, I'm still insane and looking to buy more.
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Breitling Colt in the mid nineties when I was 32. Bought it because at the time there seemed to be so many fake Rolex and TAGs around, so I wanted a watch that didn't raise the question.
Still have the Colt and only regret not spending the extra back then for a Rolex.
Really only caught the watch bug a few years ago, now all manner of timepieces are on my Radar.
First Rolex at 33. A pre-owned Submariner.
It felt like a gigantic decision at the time but have never had any regrets.
Tag Carrera Chrono when I was about 26 and knew very little; then first Panerai at about 33 and it all got rather expensive thereafter.
Inherited an Omega Seamaster aged about 4 I think, puchased a Tag quartz at 16ish and then first Rolex at 25
Rolex explorer 2 white dial at 27....bought and sold many since...
I was 19 when I bought a Tag Heuer 2000 chrono. Picked it up in Australia for less than half the UK price, so I was pretty pleased with myself!
Breitling Superocean 1000m with blue dial with my first ever pay packet and at Geneva airport - so around 97ish. Making me 23 or so.
Followed by a (TAG) Heuer Monza, vintage Speedmaster Pro and finally a Rolex Explorer all within the following couple of years. Those 4 were actually a superb selection covering all the bases for me.
Not sure why but after that it went mental...
42 when I got my Omega AT Skyfall
A Tissot quartz when I was 24, followed by a Chronoswiss Kairos at 28 (which I still own today, even if mostly worn by my wife).
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
At 15 years of age I worked for 8 months and saved up 1300 old Irish punts and bought the James Bond Omega Seamaster. The list is quite big but Omega Seamaster,Seamater Co-Axial, Planet Ocean (X 2), Breitling Navitmer, Graham Swordfirsh, all before I was 25. Then Bell & Ross BR 02 92 Phantom, Omega Speedmaster 44.25mm, Panerai and Bell & Ross BR126 since then. All purchased new bar the Panerai.
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First good watch was purchased when I was 30.It was an IWC pilots chronograph .I really liked it but sold it 2 years later ,I wish I still had it.
Early 20's - a Tag Heuer 2000 series auto
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
Christopher Ward at 22
Bremont at 24
So depends what you call luxury.
Forgot to show my first "luxury" watch!
Here it is. And I still have it
After piddling about in the cheaper end of the market for a couple of years I was about 25 when I bought a Tag Heuer F1 (blue) and then a second hand Tag 6000 series within a few weeks of each other - I seem to recall the F1 came first.
Swapped, chopped, bought and sold my way through a lot of the Tag range then into the vintage Omega models which surprisingly (to me) I liked a lot more that the Tags. Eventually bought my first Rolex at about 28 I would say, a second hand Airking, and it lasted about a month before I jumped back into the Omega stuff.
30th birthday present to my self Rolex Kermit. Think I will keep forever.
Never, luckily I would seem to have 10-15 years to do so. Would a Tudor count?
This when I was 39
Tudor Oysterquartz when I was 23. It was a great purchase. No matter that I bought it on Jersey, and that the shop messed up with the bracelet adjustment and wy (me girlfriend, then--and still!--my wife) missed our ferry back to the mainland, and that messed up the whole budget. I've since sold it, which I oughtn't have done.
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the first proper watch I bought was a rolex date just bi metal with champagne dial, , was 17 I think,, half my life ago.
I suppose it was a Heuer Monza when I was ~ 30 - I'd got a christmas bonus and blew it on that - then later traded it for an Omega speedy pro
then was made redundant and blew the redundancy money on a Dornblueth (Didn't yet have a mortgage at the time...)
Forgot to add the pic...
My first Omega, out in Miami.... Wear it everyday, tank of a watch!
Let me venture a guess; you joined a watch forum at age 28-29, hehe.Originally Posted by EJL25
I bought Tag Heuer Link as my second watch when I was 19 or 20.
When I was 28 or 29 I lost my mind and I now at 32 have ca. 30 watches.
Edit. And yes, I'm still insane and looking to buy more.
How did you know that!!!!
Lots of '40's here.
I was errr.. 50
Although in my case it wasn't one of those "I need to mark a big birthday" events, but simply the moment when I had some cash to 'invest' in a 'luxury' watch.
I'd not really taken any notice of 'luxury watches' prior to becoming smitten with a Breitling 809 Cosmonaute in a small watch shop window a few years earlier. If I'd known what a slippery slope it was, I never would have looked in that window!
M
I was gifted a TAG Heuer on my 21st by my old boss, it took another 8 years before I purchased an Omega Seamaster Professional, then another 10 years before I bought my first (hopefully) Rolex!
I'd never looked at watches and then I was informed by my wife to be that the in-laws wanted to buy me a watch. I proceeded to WOS in Manchester and duly chose a Rolex Datejust 116200. That's what started me off and I was 31 at the time (2008). Rolex were almost half the price they are now back then!
I was 38 and it was an Omega SMP 2531... That's when I also acquired my addiction... Or should I call it an obsession?!
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Mine was also a 2531.80. Got it at 33. I'm hoping to bag my first Rolex at 35, but that's dependant on shifting my current posh watch (Planet Ocean).
Hydro Conquest at 42
This Tag 2000 seemed like a fortune to me at £620 20 years ago and it was.
Still wear it regularly.
Cheers
Neil
25 @ Submariner-Date
Bought a Zenith at 23, but was wearing a Datejust before as it was a gift.
Depends on definition of "luxury watch". To me at the time it was a Maurice Lacroix for my 40th. If that doesn't count, then it would be a JLC Reverso at 48.
I spent a reasonable chunk of my first month's wage on a Tissot some 25 years ago. Well, it was luxury to me... I've bought and sold a good few others since, though my my first true luxury watch was my GS bought a couple of years back when I was 41.
At 17 I bought a Tag Heuer 2000 exclusive series in the Christmas sales followed a few months later by a Rolex Submariner 14060. I briefly dated a girl at school had a Patek Philippe at 18!
I bought a Breitling Quartz at 21, then nothing that I think could be classed as luxury until 39 when I bought my first Omega?
24, bought a lovely 35th Anni Speedy. Got the bug, sold some guitars, bought a Sea Dweller 16600 six months later, followed swiftly by a GMT, 50th LV, Explorer, Day Date, two Subs, another six Speedies... the list goes on. 27 now. Bloody expensive hobby.
Omega PO about 5 years ago so 32 ish I think.
Hoping for an explorer 2 in the next year - so 37 if that comes off...
Snap, my 1st quality watched aged 27, sold at 30 to buy my sea dweller which i still wear daily avert almost 10 years!Forgot to add the pic...
My first Omega, out in Miami.... Wear it everyday, tank of a watch!
Good taste my man! Don't think I'd ever sell the omega, marks a certain point in my life, will pass it down no doubt if I ever have kids, the omega and Breitling have been the prelude to the Rolex... Still can decide GMT or Sub.... Real tough decision. ..will start a thread nearer the time! ..
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