Reply With QuoteI wore an Omega Constellation every day for 28 years. Never considered it an issue.
Well, could you? And, relevant to this forum, could you maintain a healthy interest in watches white wearing just one watch? I think I can get close, but not all the way. Yet. But getting steadily closer.
Most days:
Occasionally:
And that’s it. After, maybe, about thirty different watches (all off which I liked)
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I wore an Omega Constellation every day for 28 years. Never considered it an issue.
No, not for me. I bore too easily.
Well, my first watch (£36..15 shillings) was a 1966 Omega Seamaster DeVille. I wore that every day for twenty years; without a service (ignorance). Then the hands fell off and I threw it away.
I've almost managed it. Since joining 11 years ago I've worn just a handful of watches.
First was the Tag Classic 2000 I owned when I joined, I wore that daily for years. Then I got a Speedmaster Pro and wore that for another 8 or so years. Followed by a Submariner, sold that and now wear another one, every day. In between I've designed a couple and worn them sparingly but on the whole it's been the Sub, excluding a weekend in Rome and in London.
Why didn't you wear it for the weekend in London? Rome I can understand as it's full of thieving little moped riders, but London is the safest place in the world to wear a Rolex; every other person has one on.Originally Posted by chrisparker
I wore my 2254 every day after I got it, it was my first "proper" watch & I loved it (still do). Ten years later I bought a Speedmaster & wore that almost every day until this May, I got a SS DJ41 for my 50th & I've worn that almost every day.
For site visits etc I wear my CWC diver & occasionally I get the urge to wear the 2254 or the Speedy. Thing is, the DJ is such a good allrounder that I don't need to wear the others, it's only if I want to for a day or two.
Jeans today? DJ. Suit tomorrow? DJ still works. After getting the DJ I still feel guilty about not wearing the Speedy, I feel its reproachful gaze from the watch box, but I really find the DJ covering all the bases for me. I know I'm new to Rolex but I often find myself looking at the magnificence of the Oyster bracelet, not the dial. No other watch has made me spend time admiring the bracelet / clasp.
I reckon the DJ is a watch for every day.
Hide the watch box then it can’t see you!
I wore a Tag 4000 every day for about fifteen years until I started owning others.
I now only ever wear my G shock or my 16710 GMT.
Occasionally I’ll put one of my (now very few) other watches on but they only lasts for a few hours.
It’s quite refreshing not to have yo think about which one yo wear
No I normally change every 4 day break( 4 on 4 off) of work.
At times I will wear one for a couple of breaks,but no more than that.
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I've worn my Explorer 1 everyday since getting it last year. I have the rest of the collection in the safe and not worn anything else since but have no intention in moving them on. I'm not sure if my interest in watches has waned or whether the Explorer 1 has been the watch I've always been searching for; nice size, no date to set and can be worn smart or casual, perfect.
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Yes, Have worn a Sub everyday for the last 3 years, still love it. Would buy a Hulk or a SD43 though if one came up :)
I tend to wear my Seamaster 120 weekdays and my SMP 300 at weekends. Don’t really know why as I’ve been retired for a while.
Sometimes I will wear my Submariner instead of the SMP but wear it quite rarely now.
Yes no problem .Snowflake Sub since 1983.
Yeah easily. its usually watch #5 of my collection that gets the worn as the others are all over the houses.
I wear my watches for at least a week at a time. I don't really get a feel for them otherwise.
Regardless of the size of a collection I have tended to wear one watch every day for long periods. I always end up favouring a simple 3 hander with a small case and a simple easy to read dial - the other pieces only being worn on occasion. Probably why any collection Ive had has continually gone up and down and at times evaporated altogether. For example at the moment I am down to one watch, which is of course worn everyday and for every activity from gardening to board meetings.
I will be buying the Everest Expedition when it arrives but cant think of anything else I want at the moment. It will be interesting to see which of the two becomes the favoured one.
I wore a Submariner, everyday for everything, for over 12 years straight. I shudder to think how much wear it got, but then it was (and is) only a watch designed to be worn, not stored. I only stopped wearing it when it went in for a service. To tide me over, as you do, I purchased a new Bond Seamaster. The Sub came back looking so nice that the 'only a watch' thought went out the window, so I continued with the Omega for around seven years with the Sub coming out on special occasions/weekends.
Five years ago, having enlarged the collection as a result of this forum, I realised that the Submariner was just sitting there, not really getting any use, so from that point on, its been on the wrist almost everyday.
...right up to a few weeks ago when it became rather obvious it needed another service. So both the Submariner and the Seamaster are now off with the repairers, leaving me with a genuine excuse to raid the watch box and wear one of the others. Feels weird though...you get very used to the size and weight....
Explorer most of the day, gshock goes on if I go to the gym or am doing the garden
I wore my 16610 daily for nine years, then I got into watches.
Confession time. I'm a watch wearer.
Like many others I can enjoy the hobby without the need to change watches with the wind.
Gray
For me, there is some key wording in the original post - one watch while maintaining a healthy interest seems contradictory in my world, as its the variety of trying different watches that keeps my interest.
If I lost interest then sure, I think I could drop to one watch. I already wear my Black Bay nearly every day.
I have done on previous work visits, on my own, and wearing long sleeves. However this time the verdict of Lee Pomeroy, the chap stabbed 18 times in front of his son, was fresh in the news and I was with my young family on one of the hottest days of the year. And as you'll have read from yesterdays awful story at the Tate you can't take your eyes off your kids for a second. My youngest is four and in a big City, in busy areas - she's my focus, not chancers on mopeds (they're in London as well).
I made the right call too. Not long after I was in Cockfosters to get the Tube, an ex MMA fighter was been attacked for his Rolex and I'm glad that wasn't me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...000-Rolex.html
London on the whole is fine and yes there are many Rolex wearers, but it's far from the safest place in the world to have an expensive watch on display.
Yes, to me this is the real challenge.
I’ve started wearing this on June 24th,and it’s still on my wrist today....
It’s surprising that 47mm watch can be worn daily...
I used to wear my 16750 most days for about ten years after I bought it in 1986. I stopped doing that in the mid '90s when I started buying watches again and I haven't had a regular, every day watch since then. My IWC MkXII and my PRS29A have come close, but even those two spend weeks off the wrist sometimes and I doubt I've ever worn either of them for weeks on end. Too many watches.
I had a watch that I was quite closely bonded with from my late teens to my mid 20s, a handwound in a gold colour case that was given to me by my dad. I broke that one and chucked it in 1984. I can't even remember what make it was! I'm sure it had the brand on the dial but I wasn't a watch nerd and I'm not sure I paid the slightest attention to it.
This.
And yes, healthy interest in the hobby mostly maintained over the three years I’ve worn it.
I seem to change what I wear almost daily, but on some weeks happy to wear the same. When I go on holiday I tend to pick just 1 and wear that. To be fair I don't miss any of the others when I do
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Used to chop and change my watches regularly. One diver after another. Since I bought my current watch, seven years ago, bar having to wear something else when it went in for service, or a G-Shock for active training and shooting, I’ve worn my current watch every day.
I still enjoy looking at other people’s watches, I follow the new releases, Baselworld and still regularly stalk the sales corner and Chrono24, even ebay, occasionally. Everything I do fancy is so expensive that my wife would kill me to buy something else in lieu of renovating the house.
So, yes, largely one watch - and this has become more of a spectator sport.
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One watch?
Interesting concept
Nope can’t see me doing it and have not done so since I was about 18. (Ok I had a week day watch and a weekend watch back then - I got all the girls)
Part of my unwinding from work is deciding on and then winding the watch I will wear tomorrow.
I have my favourites I gravitate too, but a different watch everyday for me. Apart from holidays when I only take my holiday watch.
Yes! I bought a Speedster I first put on the day my son was born - I want to give it to him as the watch he remembers me wearing every day that sparks his own interest in watches. Only replaced by something else for either brief testing purposes or for very arduous wear, but otherwise worn 24/7
Define 'healthy'...
I could and did for many years live with just one watch.
I was vaguely interested in watches, but not to the point of spending any money on them!
Now, I have loads and spend a lot of time looking at others.
I like switching them around. I suspect if I just had one again my interest would decline to a casual one again.
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
And that’s what I’m trying to work-out. Can I manage with a single watch and still maintain a strong interest? At the moment, I just don’t know.
I think most people will need a minimum of two watches.
You need a watch that you really like and that you are comfy with for day to day wear. You also need a dress watch for those special or more formal occasions. Everything else is an indulgence.
Tried a few times. Always failed in that I have an heirloom I want to keep but it would not be my daily wearer.
That aside, I actually think I have found one that would do it.....
Dress up or dress down, robust, good WR, all the functions I need, interesting history, pretty, well built, propositions are good
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I have a Seiko MM professional black tuna that does everything and is quartz, everyone thinks it's a bog standard SEIKO. I have a Grand Seiko but it's delicate in comparison and I'm clumsy. Took a while to get it from Japan but happy now. I lost the watch urge as soon as I got it, for now.
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Only you know what 'strong interest' is, but I think you'll have a cursory or academic interest at best, if you're only ever going to wear one watch.
I have an interest in supercars, but as I'll never own one, it's not a strong interest - Whether the P1 is better than the Senna or the FXX is interesting, but not something I have a strong interest in.
I found it very interesting to get the chance to drive a Ferrari 458 and McLaren MP4/12C back to back, because my experience enabled me to better understand the distinction that the press were making between them. They're both bloody quick and on paper, there's nothing to chose, but driving them you realise the Ferrari was simply better. What was even more interesting was that getting back in my Mazda RX-8 the only area that felt really disappointing was the brakes. Later I found that Lamborghini's stripped out cars have the interior quality of a 1980s Ford Escort and that an Audi R8, despite looking like a slammed TT is actually a remarkably enjoyable and engaging car, whilst being totally civilized.
Looking at photos and specs of watches, you'll feel the same - Wearing it will tell you how it feels on the wrist, how the light catches the dial, whether the PCLs are a good or bad thing, whether the case is a clumsy lump of metal or an elegant piece of jewellery that just looks great.
Just my opinion, based on how I feel.
M
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Not quite but almost there, for all the watches I have it tends to be the same what which gets 95% of the wrist time.
For years it was a Seiko orange monster, now it’s cheapy Divex bought via SC a couple of years back. For work I need a watch I don’t have to worry about, if I’m working away I’ll only take a nicer watch if there’s a night out planned which isn’t too often.
I wear the same watch every day Monday to Friday as I work for a brand, but on the weekends I get to switch around. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even before then I found myself wearing my PAM 351 nearly every day for 2 years.
Well, here we are , in our drive, the Porsche 918 Spyder. As interesting as watches? More beautiful. And incredibly rare. But I do prefer watches....
Wouldn’t mind driving that every day.
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I prefer it!
Wore my old AT every day for the last 5 years and now plan to wear my Zenith every day for the next few years (AT now sold). Much prefer 1 nicer watch than many cheaper ones and I never really rotated when I had a larger collection of around 10 watches I still always wore the same one.
Of course not, but is it better than the P1 and the LaFerrari?
You might think so, but you may find that, for you, a mere 488 or Porsche GT3 would be more enjoyable.
You'd never know if the 918 was your only car.
M
I don't know, I keep saying I'll consolidate and then find I've bought some more - so it's a no for me.
It's just a matter of time...
99% of the last 8 years - Rolex Explorer II 16570. Love it.
That's a stunning car, but doubt I could drive it for all occasions. Probably the same with watches after I've been thinking about it more.Sent from my ONEPLUS A6003 using TZ-UK mobile appWell, here we are , in our drive, the Porsche 918 Spyder. As interesting as watches? More beautiful. And incredibly rare. But I do prefer watches....
Wouldn’t mind driving that every day.
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Wear one only for a month, have the others out of reach (offsite preferably), and see how you get on.
My G Shock gets worn pretty much everyday. It's what I wear for work and when I go out and about in the countryside (which is every weekend).
Omega chrono diver for 16 years. Decided I'd try a Sub. Didn't float my boat so went GMT. Use it daily and it's a keeper.
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As prices have gone crazy Rolex attracts too much attention. Here’s another story from
Sheffield of a Rolex street theft
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime...robbery-486192
I was in London the other week and saw a chap on the tube wearing a terrible BLNR fake. An opportunist thief might not of known that and it’s not worth getting a machete or some other weapon in your face for it.
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This is really starting to grow on me... DAMN!
The older I get, the more I like them. I was very tempted by the one in SC this week.
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