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19 August 2010, 07:04 AM | #1 |
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My thanks to JJ and all the forum members
JJ started the ball rolling with his post about reducing the number of Rolexes he owns from 4 to 2 which is a number of Rolexes he finds makes him the happiest.
I was disquieted to see people commenting on his "wealth" or possible lack thereof related to how many Rolexes he has. I've never seen such postings on Jaeger LeCoultre, or Patek, or any other brand. But it got me to thinking. I wore a two tone Rolex GMT Master II as my only watch from the time I was 32 years old in 1982 until 2004 when I traded it in on a watch I've come to know as "Bluesy" around these forums. I made the trade because the tritium had died on my 82 Rolex, and the relume in Superluminova was hopelessly deficient on my GMT. That started me down the road of buying and selling, most times at a loss, around 40 watches. I stopped counting somewhere along the line. But JJ's post and many of the replies got me to thinking. Has flipping through 40 plus watches from JLC to Rolex to Seiko, to Panerai, to Girard Perregaux made me any happier about watches than I was when I had the one watch I dove in, swam in, shot guns with, ran in, and used (wrongly I know but who cares?) with suits and even in a tux? The answer turns out to be "no" for me. So I decided to think about what I use a watch for. I want good lume, and in Rolex that means the blue lume. I like a touch of yellow gold. In that combination the number of potential watches falls off. I like a Rolex movement because I trust them to last forever. I like to time things, sometimes a run, sometimes how long I've been bar-b-queing, so that makes the choice more of a diver bezel than a GMT Master II C bezel thanks to the difference in the number of detentes on the bezel. I used to spend a lot of time in different time zones, but these days not so much, and there was just a thread on how to do that with a diver bezel. So you guessed it. Black dialed, Submariner Ceramic Two Tone Rolex. This purchase coincidentally coincides with a lucky event in my business world that is of some great help to me, so I am going to think of this as my "lucky watch". Now in order to get used to being a one watch guy (well three if you include my Luminox, my Seiko Quartz Tuna SBBN015- but you get the idea) and to make sure that I'm done flipping and being tempted, I think I have decided that I need to get off of all of the watch forums permanently. I wasn't on any for the 22 years of happiness with my first Rolex, and I don't think I should be for the next 22 years I hope I have with my last Rolex. It was the JJ thread that got me thinking about this, and all of you who influenced me. Enjoy the hobby, I'm off to go enjoy my Rolex. |
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