The one and only watch is an urban legend

[ernie2]

I had an epiphany over the weekend and wanted to share with everybody here.

I see in some posts where the person wants to buy or has just bought a Rolex. He liked it so much and planned on having that to be the one and only watch or his everyday watch from that point on. I always thought "Yeah, right".

I was looking at my watch box over the weekend and I remembered for every watch in there, I was planning for it to be the "perfect everyday watch" or "my designated office watch", or even " the perfect weekend watch" when I was justifying the purchase at that time.

Apparently all those plans fell apart and I bought more and more watches. Some higher ends and some cheap plasticky ones.

Recently, I got a SD4k and thought that is my "go out watch" and told myself no more buying this year. Then I saw this Tudor Chrono Blue and I told myself I must have this watch for everyday wear in the office.

So it darn on me that watch buying is really in our male DNA. It is our modern day hunter instinct. We don't hunt for food anymore but the instinct is still there. We look for our prey ( in this case watches), stalk it ( find it on line or at AD), plan the kill ( get the $ ready, negotiate), and then go for the kill and bring it home ( buy it).

After the kill, our instinct tells us to go out and look for another hunt. So in my view the one and only watch is just an urban legend