Reply With QuoteIf they have sentimental value, obviously keep them.
If you feel happy parting with them, then they don't have that much sentimental value, I guess.
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Hello chaps,
Question as per title really.. I have a lovely Cartier Santos 100, with sentimental value (a gift), which I can go a whole year without even seeing as it's mostly in the safe. It's a beautiful watch, but I just don't wear it for 2 reasons; firstly it feels too small, and secondly I'm firmly a sports watch kind of guy. We put a brown strap on it for my wife to wear it, but she always wears her Suunto as she runs 6 days a week.
If I did trade, I was thinking Tudor GMT or IWC Pilot's Chrono. I think the days of the "cheap" Rolex Exp1's are now gone or that would have been the top contender.
So.. if you have/ have had a watch with sentimental value that hasn't seen much use, did you keep it, or trade it for something you'd be able to wear much more often?
If they have sentimental value, obviously keep them.
If you feel happy parting with them, then they don't have that much sentimental value, I guess.
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I find it surprising that you don`t wear the Cartier simply for a change, I can`t imagine sticking with one type of watch. Is it really too small, or has your thinking become conditioned to believe so? Even I can fall into this trap when swapping from a Seamaster pro to a 34mm vintage watch, it feels small for a while till I get used to it.
If you really have reached a stage where you won't wear it I guess selling or trading makes sense, but remember, once it's gone it's gone.
Since switching the strap to brown I haven't worn it at all - maybe for 4 years in fact. Perhaps I'll put it back on the black and give it a go.Originally Posted by walkerwek1958
Regards to size, perhaps you're right that's simply how I now think, having worn larger sports watches for the past few years.
If it has sentimental value, I would keep it even if you don't wear it. I have two watches - an 18th birthday present from my mother and my late father-in-law's watch that I won't part with. Both are white/silver faced and I can't read them terribly well so I don't wear them. But I know if I parted with them I would come to regret it.
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You would only regret selling it, that's inherent in your asking the question, and therefore need to keep it.
This is my most sentimental.
1 of just 75 made to commemorate 75 years since market garden. Sold to serving and ex parachute trained soldiers and officers. The rear has my regimental number and my step grandfather had jumped at Arnhem.
This is number 1
As project leader I know all 75 recipients and should anyone fall on hard times or need to sell we will buy them back and reallocate to someone on the 150 strong reserve list !
RIAC
Fantastic story and watch.
And a nice turn of thread:
Let’s see your sentimental watches with their stories
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Not much of a story - but this was my Grandfather's daily wearer, handed down to me about 30 years ago.
My only Rolex & one of the first Oyster case models - I will never sell this one!
Wow!Not much of a story - but this was my Grandfather's daily wearer, handed down to me about 30 years ago.
My only Rolex & one of the first Oyster case models - I will never sell this one!
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This is the watch I started the thread for.. and now it’s been back on my wrist I realise the size isn’t too bad, and it’s certainly refreshingly different.
It does feel a lot smaller than I’m used to though.
It was a gift from my folks after climbing a very big mountain (they promised a nice watch before realising I might actually follow through with the idea!).
Maybe I’ll try a different strap though.
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Looks well sized on your wrist.
Hold it. Someday your tastes will change.
My first “proper” watch, a TAG 2000 I kept for a while for sentimental reasons but after a while, as I didn’t wear it I sold it and can’t say that I have missed it or regretted the sale since.
On the other hand, I have a vintage Seamaster I inherited from my grandfather which I can’t imagine selling so for me depends on the level of sentiment!
Speaking of 2000’s, this is the core piece in my collection. The one I won’t let go.
It was my 18th birthday present, bought for me by my old man. We took a trip to London together and trawled up and down Bond Street before visiting Selfridges for our first legal drink together over lunch. Dad suggested that visit the watch department and it being 1988 I picked out this beauty.
Anyway, it was used and abused until one day I pushed it too far and one of the spring bars bent and the watch fell off my wrist, fortunately being caught in a loose coat sleeve rather than falling onto the ground. The watch was poorly repaired by a local jeweller and then the battery ran flat and my mind turned to other youthful exhuberences.
Over the years of multiple property moves, I thought that the watch had been lost to the sands of time. Then one day in May this year I unpacked a dusty box unopened in over a decade and at the bottom was a stick rubbery Tag box containing a manky 2000 Professional with a bent spring bar and a 25+ year old dead battery inside.
A trip to Duncan @ Genesis was arranged and back came a fully functioning watch still bearing the scars of youth but otherwise perfect. Amazingly, the battery hadn’t leaked and the movement, including the swanky bolted on Dubois Dupraz chrono module works like new.
It’s just survived a fortnight’s holiday on the beach with the kids. It might even take a trip to James for a relume on the hands and bezel pip soon. Last weekend I posted a sold watch off to its new owner and my daughter came along to the post office with me. We were discussing why I kept some watches and sold others and was wearing the Tag. ‘You love that watch, don’t you, Dad?’ she said. And she’s right. One day, it will be hers.
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Sold every single watch I’ve owned at some point or another even the watch I got married in and the watch my wife bought me when we had my son, had a girl so didn’t feel right just having one for him but not her(couldn’t afford one for her also!!)
I’ve never been bought a watch for a specific reason that would make me owe one just for that reason??
If I ever inherit a watch I would keep that for sure but other than that I can’t imagine any other watch will stay for sentiment alone??? I do want an SD43 for my 50th which is 5 years away?!?!
I don’t see the point in leaving a watch unloved and never used because it has a tiny bit of sentiment attached? I would perhaps agree for a fathers watch to their son or a mothers watch to their daughter but other than that I can’t see any other reason!??!?
I have considered getting watches engraved so I can’t sell them that’s about it😂👍
I've got a few sentimental watches that belonged to my late Dad and passed over family members.
I never wear them but so what?
I've got loads of watches I never wear with no sentimental attachment.
Cheers,
Neil.
That Cartier would look great on a grey gator.
I would never sell my 14060m even though I don't wear it often.
My interest in watches is about 12 years old. I’m still attached to the watches I had before and for some reason would hang on to them in preference to more collectible, valuable watches. Not sure why, it just is that way. They are never going to be popular or valuable.
Seiko - Worn in the late 70s and 80s, a gift on a significant birthday from my sister.
Aldo Rossi for Alessi - With work suit in 90s.
Hamilton Khaki - Something for the weekend in 90s.
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Loving that!Speaking of 2000’s, this is the core piece in my collection. The one I won’t let go.
It was my 18th birthday present, bought for me by my old man. We took a trip to London together and trawled up and down Bond Street before visiting Selfridges for our first legal drink together over lunch. Dad suggested that visit the watch department and it being 1988 I picked out this beauty.
Anyway, it was used and abused until one day I pushed it too far and one of the spring bars bent and the watch fell off my wrist, fortunately being caught in a loose coat sleeve rather than falling onto the ground. The watch was poorly repaired by a local jeweller and then the battery ran flat and my mind turned to other youthful exhuberences.
Over the years of multiple property moves, I thought that the watch had been lost to the sands of time. Then one day in May this year I unpacked a dusty box unopened in over a decade and at the bottom was a stick rubbery Tag box containing a manky 2000 Professional with a bent spring bar and a 25+ year old dead battery inside.
A trip to Duncan @ Genesis was arranged and back came a fully functioning watch still bearing the scars of youth but otherwise perfect. Amazingly, the battery hadn’t leaked and the movement, including the swanky bolted on Dubois Dupraz chrono module works like new.
It’s just survived a fortnight’s holiday on the beach with the kids. It might even take a trip to James for a relume on the hands and bezel pip soon. Last weekend I posted a sold watch off to its new owner and my daughter came along to the post office with me. We were discussing why I kept some watches and sold others and was wearing the Tag. ‘You love that watch, don’t you, Dad?’ she said. And she’s right. One day, it will be hers.
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I would say that size if absolutely perfectly proportioned for your wrist. Very nice watch.This is the watch I started the thread for.. and now it’s been back on my wrist I realise the size isn’t too bad, and it’s certainly refreshingly different.
It does feel a lot smaller than I’m used to though.
It was a gift from my folks after climbing a very big mountain (they promised a nice watch before realising I might actually follow through with the idea!).
Maybe I’ll try a different strap though.
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I only have one sentimental watch which is this one I bought with the money left to me from my Grandmothers will. I spent a good while trying to find just the right watch that she would have liked, and to fit within money she had left me(I felt it would dilute the idea if I bought something more expensive). I think she would have absolutely loved my choice(especially in gold) and I think of her every time I wear it.
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I agree. That looks much better than I'd imagined. Further reason to keep it.
My grandfather's vintage. He wore this watch for 40 years. It's too small for me (I'm 6'3 tall with relatively big wrists) so I don't wear it. But it reminds me of the man I admired and loved a lot.
That's excellent. Hope it's not needed but well done in case it is.
Keep it. Genuine sentimental value matters more than wearing. If you can't/don't wear it, so be it, but be happy in the knowledge that it's safe in the box.
I've got a Zenith Pilot that belonged to my Dad in the 60's and I don't really enjoy it for a number of reasons, one being it's very small. However, I don't want to sell it for the obvious reasons.
I have two sentimental watches. I have my grandfather's Longines which cost me more to restore than it will ever be worth and I have a Rolex Sub that I bought myself for a significant birthday. I say I will never sell either of them but if it came to it I would sell the Rolex in extreme circumstances (e.g. one of my kids was in real trouble).
The Longines though - without wanting to plagiarise another popular watch brand - is not a watch I feel I 'own' so much as look after. It's not worth a huge amount if I were to flip it anyway but I will make sure it goes to one of my kids or nieces/nephews from that side of the family.
My dad bought me a Rolex 16600 just over ten years ago, which I sold in early 2015. It was only after he died a year later that I realised I wished I still had it.
I replaced it with an SDc which I love, but obviously it has no link to my dad.
For me it has to be my Omega Seamaster due to it being the first watch I ever purchased and having worn it on my wedding day it has a lot sentimental value to me.
Plus it is a great daily wearer.
Having seen the pics, my advice to the OP is to bin the brown strap and put the Cartier on a nice black croc or alligator, brown doesn’t work at all IMO. The size looks fine to me.
I’ve never considered buying a Cartier, but I do like them. A design classic IMO.
Haven’t worn my dad’s old watch for 5 yrs. had it serviced. Can’t think why I would sell it though
Defo don't flip it. The Santos is nice and the sentimental value makes it worth more than just money.
Try some odd straps on it, the refined styling of the watch contrasts very nicely (imo) with a plain black nato! Treat it like a sports watch that you wear to the office!
Just get it into rotation, You'l be supprised how interesting it could get.
Just trade it, everything is doomed to disappear ..
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