How many reps do you guys own?

[Fullofdays]

22 over a 6 year period. I went deep into vintage builds and have a few tripdog and kilo builds along with 3 phong high end builds

 

[Sam_washington]

Hi everyone, can you please recommend a reputable dealer that I can buy a top quality Rolex GMT-Master II Oyster 40 mm Oystersteel and Everose gold

 

[mclarendude]

Hi everyone, can you please recommend a reputable dealer that I can buy a top quality Rolex GMT-Master II Oyster 40 mm Oystersteel and Everose gold

Careful, you’re thread crapping. Use the search box. No one will spoon feed you here.

 

[Alan Bourdillion Traherne]

Hey, thanks for asking. I do wear a lot of them, but there are some that I never get round to picking. But I also hate to sell the watches, and often suffer horrible seller's remorse if I part with one. So the "collection passion" is probably indicative of a slight craziness on my part... and err towards hoarding!

Anyway, I prefer spending money on watches, which means my storage solution is the cheap wooden glass top watch boxes sold on eBay and Amazon for around £15 to £20:

They do the job and look decent enough.

And I don't think electric watch winders are necessary (or necessarily a good thing), and I like the process of picking a watch in the morning, then spending some time looking at it and handling it while setting the date/time.

Get help. I beg of you... seek counseling. Then sell me a few of those beauties. :thumbsup:

 

[wolfiqar]

Gosh here’s me thinking I was bad with 11 watches, but wow some of you guys have a massive collection! Absolutely love it! Lol. Hopefully once I complete this box I will move on to AP and PP

This is my humble collection thus far, enjoy

1. VSF Submariner 116610 LV
2. CF GMT Master II 116710LN Pending
3. Noob v11 / ARF Insert GMT Master II 116710 BLNR
4. CF GMT Master II 126710 BLRO
5. VSF Submariner 122619 LB
6. VSF Submariner 126610 LV
7. Noob v4 Daytina 116500 LN0002
8. Noob v3 Daytona 116509-0072
9. Noob v4 Daytona 116500 LN0001
10. ZZF v3 Submariner 116610 LN
11. Noob Sky Dweller 326934
12. Arf v4 Sea Dweller 126600

 

[ChronoKitsune]

Very cool stuff and enjoy reading about all your collections.

Now for a real noob question, maybe you could help me with… If one rotates through wearing their collection of watches, when you “store” a watch for some time, is it best to let it tick until the power reserve runs out? Or better to pull the crown to stop the movement when on “lay away”…

Thanks for your insights!

I may be misinformed but I've heard that over long periods of time this can put a lot of prolonged stress on the internals and potentially damage it. My advice it to let it run down, but take that with a grain of salt

 

[element79]

I may be misinformed but I've heard that over long periods of time this can put a lot of prolonged stress on the internals and potentially damage it. My advice it to let it run down, but take that with a grain of salt

Thanks for your reply, appreciated!

Indeed that sounds plausible, I was a bit thrown ‘cause many watches ship with the crown pulled… But that probably only goes for the quartz movements. For now I’ll let them run down then.

 

[derjenigewelcher]

3

 

[JTSWE]

Had about 400, but now 7


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[tfmacky]

I have 4 reps and 2 gen the problem is i usually end up wearing the one i like best a Blancpain Barracuda but still get the urge to buy more its how to do it without the wife finding out

 

[WolfKissed]

6 reps, 2 Gen, 1 sick of it wife. ????


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[tfmacky]

 

[tfmacky]

my watches take up far less room in the house than all her clothes and shoes and must have cost far less to buy but what the hell anything for a happy life

 

[tfmacky]

my gen Breitling Navitimer which she likes the best and doesn't
see why i had to buy any more

 

[djmac23]

Wow some of your collections are wild!! I have 4 reps with a 5th coming, and 5 gens. Trying to consolidate into 7 watches total eventually lol.

 

[wolfiqar]

Completed my watch box 1 - Rolex collection

Box 2 slowly will be filled with,

Pre Ceramic Black Daytona CF
5Digit Submariner ARF
Swatch x Omega Mission to the Moon
The END. LOL (for now)

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[APjumbo]

95 total, I think, with two builds in progress.
So only room for three more, because having over 100 is just silly.

About 70 are reps

That puts me at stage 4 of post #13
4. Compulsive buys : from time to time, your brain snaps on a M2M offer and you buy a watch you know you should'nt. But hey, don't want to loose the thrill of it.