Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Boo. And this is episode 213.
Woo yeah, Lucky 2/13 2:13 I don't know why.
Well, people say lucky number 13.
Yeah, meaning unlucky #13. No 13 is lucky for some people,
yeah. Yeah.
Do you believe in luck? No, but maybe other.
People do. So you're saying that some
people claim 13 as? Lucky.
Yeah, exactly. So you don't believe in luck at
all? Huh.
No, I I think I answered too quickly.
I, I do, I do. It didn't.
Seem like the right answer. For you, I don't think people
are inherent. Yeah, I don't know.
See this is I don't. Yeah, I don't believe in luck.
That makes more sense. Yeah, yeah, let's.
Just stick with that. I do and you don't, and we're
neither of us are quite sure what it means.
Well, it depends on what you mean by luck see 'cause you
could say like, oh, I got lucky and won this raffle mm hmm.
I don't think it's wrong to say, oh, I was lucky and I won this,
but to say, like, I have good luck today because I don't know
the position of the stars that I yeah, no, not into that.
OK. Yeah, sorry to any of you who
are into that. Yeah, yeah.
But thanks for listening anyway. OK, today we're going to talk
about 2025 and what happened to our collections.
Yeah, that. Makes it sound so serious.
No, not. Serious disaster.
No, OK, first of all, it's watches not that disastrous.
No, I I think of it more as like what's changed in our collection
during 2025. And why?
Yeah. And has will that inform
anything in 2026? Oh, I mean, it'd be weird if it
didn't. Like, what kind of people are we
if we're not just learning and growing?
You know, I feel like when we were doing the podcast, I was
doing more learning and growing with watches because you
constantly need to think about like an assessment of like why
and how. I mean, it's like our own weird
watch therapy. And so you're talking about, OK,
here. I'm, I'm justifying this and
here's why I think that. So last year I feel that
overall, because we weren't podcasting as much, I just kind
of did whatever and didn't think about it in my watch collecting.
You're saying that the podcast keeps you in check?
It keeps me at least where I need to verbalize my thoughts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for the content.
For the content exactly. OK, OK.
It made me more aware, like, yeah, just more thoughtful.
Yeah, I think. This year I would like to
continue that. 2025 was a big year for my collection.
I mean, mainly because of how many.
I think I bought more watches in 2025 than I've ever bought
before. I think quantity and amount of
money, you know, who knows? I don't know.
But it was a big year in some ways for me.
But I also noticed some things about it.
However, we didn't have enough podcast episodes to talk about
it. So we will analyze that today
what we did not analyze while we were doing it last year.
There were like I said, no analysis this for me just.
I am. I am wearing the watch that I
bought in this month of last year so.
Wow, I you I forgot you had a January.
I had a January. Honestly, I think that really
set the course for you. It did, it did.
And when I look at the months that I got watches, well, it's
most of them. When?
I look when I look at. I didn't get any watches after
October though. OK.
So that's pretty good. OK.
Yeah, some it's something. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I bought OK. I bought myself 7 watches last
year and I got 2 watches as gifts.
So last year I have 9 new watches and I only sold one.
Oh, I didn't want to do any selling specifics because I have
to. Talk about selling.
Need to and have it so. So I guess that's my specifics.
Me as well, OK, but I started the year buying the Grand Seca
SBGW 321, said European limited edition.
I love it. It's in the GS44 case, 44 GS
case. It's a wonderful little manual
wind watch that I I love this case because it really looks
like, in my mind, it looks like a Grand Seiko.
It does. There's not much else that looks
like this case. No, the Zoratsu polishing like
it. Really it it does.
You're like, this is Grand Seiko.
It feels like Grand Seiko and another thing so OK trend #1 for
my watches in. 2025. OK, apparently I don't really do
bracelets anymore. Oh, OK.
Only one watch had a bracelet. That is, that is weird.
Out of nine. Yeah, that's that's.
Right. So I think I'm kind of out of my
brain bracelet era. OK.
So also. Do you have any thoughts on why?
Why? No, not really.
I don't think it's been intentional.
Mm, hmm. That I'm like, oh, I now prefer
to not have bracelet watches. Now, as you know, I do have lots
of thoughts about bracelets. Maybe that's more.
Picky about bracelets than I am about straps because I love
buying watches on straps and then just changing the straps.
Like to me straps are consumables and you can change
them out and not really think about that.
Bracelets are a little bit different.
They cost more, their fitting is different, right?
Everything is more particular about them.
So I feel like if I buy a watch on a bracelet, I have to like
the bracelet, but if I buy a watch on the strap, I do not
have to like the strap. That's true.
So it gives you more of like watches you like, Yeah.
And then there's also not just liking the bracelet, but I want
it to be comfortable as well. Quick adjust.
And you need to have a tool less micro adjust.
However, two of the watches that I have, one that I bought last
year that have bracelets, do not have quick adjust, but it's OK
because they are titanium. OK.
So it's like to me, the one. I was going to say people can
change, but then I was like, no. Well, I'm sure people change.
Not not this. People.
I mean, I have heard of people changing it.
It is a thing I've heard of. Don't know that I've seen it
directly, certainly haven't tried any of that.
I feel like on titanium, in titanium then the watch is light
enough that it doesn't bother me.
If it's a tiny bit loose. When it's in steel, it really
bothers me. So then it must always fit
perfectly even it must fit perfectly even when my wrist
expands. So that's why I need the extra.
But in titanium it's it's just not the same.
So the Breitling Aerospace Evo, which was the last watch that I
bought last year. You're going in a loosey goosey
order here. You're just skipping around.
What? I'm just.
It's it it it it fell into the bracelet talk.
So that watch on bracelet in titanium.
I love that watch. It is awesome.
Super quartz is great and it fits great even though it
doesn't have a quick adjust on the bracelet and I've left it on
the bracelet which surprises me. I didn't think I would.
I thought I'd put it on a strap but no, left it on that quick
adjust list bracelet. Quick adjust.
List bracelet. OK, then I bought a few
different watches and I saw some trends of like where my mind was
at going into spring of last year.
Well, going into spring, you know, I bought the Otsuka Low
tech #5 Kai, which is one of my favorite watches of all time.
Truly amazing, beautiful, wonderful.
Nothing negative to say about that watch.
But then after that I really got into this idea of I guess
activity watches, like watches that each one is for very
specific activities. And that no other watch.
No other watch could do. Possibly do it, yeah.
Watches don't have versatility, they are very specific to.
All the modern watches that you buy are versatile.
They can't withstand the elements.
They do a thing. One single thing.
So OK, here's some of my activity watches from the.
Air, I can't wait to hear them. So the first one.
Because I genuinely can't remember all the watches you
bought this year. This was a banger year for you.
The first one. Banner year A banner year.
Not a banger, I. Mean it could also be I bought
only bangers this year. Yeah, thank you for
complimenting my watch collection.
The first one of the activity watches, right, because I didn't
consider either the Grand Seiko or the Otsuka Low tech #5 Kai.
Those weren't activity watches. No.
Right, quite general. Nice watches, but then I get
into the activity phase of collecting for the year.
The next one was the Hovering to Irwin pilot, and that one is the
most general of the activity watches because in my mind this
was like a general adventure watch and the first thing we did
was take it to Portugal. And when did you get this one?
This watch I got in April. OK after seeing it on Zach Weiss
for Mourn and Wound in March. That was the so I had been
interested in the watch for a little while, but seeing Zach
Weiss's made me realize, Oh yeah, no, this is like I had
never seen one in person. Before so you so it was like
must get, must get now. Did get.
OK, OK, perfect. Must get did.
Get, must get then did get and that was the general adventure
watch. But then, but then I you know,
more specific needs required more specific watches, one of
them being the Tudor FXT Chrono Cycling edition.
And it's specifically it's the Giroud Italia limited edition
version, but it's a watch for it has cycling in the name.
That's a specific as you need to get for a watch.
And you said, and I'm just reminding because it's January,
maybe some people didn't hear it or they don't remember.
You said that single watch, if you got it, it would change your
life because you would cycle so much.
I wouldn't say it's been at the level I wanted it to be, but I
am training for the ride, yes, and it will happen.
You are training for the ride. And it will training for the
ride and it will happen. I'm not as far along am I
training as I would like to be at this point, But now that it's
less than six months. New year, new you.
New year new me perfect. I am like no problem this.
Is happening and this watch you not only assigned a specific
activity, then you gave yourself a challenge but you bought the
watch first. Yeah, as.
For the challenge. So the challenge is to ride the
315 kilometer veteran run. Then, which is wild.
I mean, it will be, yeah, 315 kilometer veteran run.
Then you ride around a lake in Sweden.
It's one of the biggest rides in the world.
It's like 30,000 people come and ride this over one weekend.
Yeah, so I'm training for that. The most I've ever ridden is 160
kilometers and that was the half veteran and that was in 2014.
OK, well, I believe in both you and the watch.
Great. That sounded sarcastic, but I
actually do. Hold on.
I'm gonna try it again 'cause I do.
I do. I didn't mean it to.
But then when I heard the kind of downturn, no.
Definitely. No it wasn't.
I really do believe in you and the Well now no matter what I
say. It sounds sarcastic, but I made.
One rule for myself, maybe because you gave me such a hard
time about rewarding myself before I did the challenge, Yes,
but then more people did. Online too.
It wasn't only me, listeners did too.
I could only wear that watch when I'm training and so far I
have gotten to wear the watch because I've done training
perfect. Yeah, and now you'll get to wear
more, more, more. More, more, more definitely now
ramping it up it's. Going.
To be a lot ramped up quite a bit.
So OK, that was a very specific watch.
And then the next very specific watch was and in October, we
went to Noah's Forum and our wonderful friend James was
wearing a watch that was new to him, the Breitling Endurance Pro
44 in yellow. And I saw that watch and it's
like it answered a question I had had for years.
And that question was, can I find a watch that is like a
elevated G shock like, but not like an MRG, you know, like not
one of the fancy G shocks Because I feel like those
actually step away from the ruggedness of the lower cost G
shocks. But I wanted something that's
like an elevated G shock, but still with materials that are
more similar to AG shock. And this watch answered that
question. And the reason I wanted it was
to have a great workout watch. OK, but not to be confused with
Cycling Watch. Well, cycling is a workout.
But it's there's. Other kinds of.
Workout. This endurance Pro is not for
cycling. Not for cycling.
OK, not for cycling. The cycling watch is for
cycling, right? And then I already have used for
years my FXD as a hiking watch specifically for hiking.
We always make it sound like we are the best, the most fit
people in the world. All of the hiking I do every.
Single day, so all the gym equipment we have at home would
think, make you think. And for the gym I have now the
Breitling Endurance Pro 44 mil in Orange.
In orange, how James's was in. Quickly.
When you saw James's orange yellow, did you get your orange
one? Was it 24 hours?
We were in Berlin. Yes.
And we ran out, James and I, to a local shop and I bought it.
I mean, what do you like? What else would you?
Do What else would you do when you find the perfect watch for
the genre of fitness? But not indoor cycling fitness,
no. Yeah.
No, I mean, you got to do what you got to do.
Indoor or outdoor? Oh yeah, yeah.
All cycling will be done with that.
Watch all fitness except cycling of any kind.
Or hiking. OK, almost all fitness except.
It's more that's the workout watch.
OK. That's, I guess that's a way to
call it. Yeah.
So I love that watch for working out.
I haven't done much of it but it is a perfect watch for that so
that thus it. There are more watches but those
were the most specific like oh this is for.
Very. Specific activities that I
bought these watches, yeah. And then I I thought, oh, I need
a new travel watch. I sold my Rolex GMT Master 2A
couple years ago. Like I haven't really replaced
that and I've been waiting to buy a Nomos World time, waiting
for the perfect color and. I'm saying nothing because for
those of you who do or don't know, I'm just going to say that
I'm working with Nomos so I know what's going on.
So I'm saying nothing as and. I wasn't asking you I'm I'm
specifically saying like I I have had trouble committing
because there have been at least four colors that I absolutely.
You said like this. Is I was like, this is the one,
but you know, it caused a certain amount of indecision
fatigue for me. And so I, I have not chosen yet,
but so I was like, okay, I need some sort of travel watch.
I gotta have it for all the travel I do, which by the way, I
don't really travel much these days because I don't like.
Portugal and Germany. But so then for this very
specific activity that I do not partake in as much these days, I
bought the Breitling Aerospace Evo.
It felt like a very good travel watch.
But what I found is it's maybe the most toolish watch that I
own. Like because it has the digital
display. It does.
It's an and a digi watch, so it has the analog hands for that
hour and minutes. And then it has two digital
displays, so you can have chronograph timer that you can
display the time. It also has a backlight.
So it makes it a very versatile watch.
Yeah, love that one. Yeah.
So you've traveled somewhere with it?
No. I'm like being such a Heckler to
you. You can have anything in your
collection. I am just being.
I am just teasing. And then, OK, I also like OK,
something I did this year that is a change in how I think of my
collection. OK.
I used to essentially just have one big category of watches
you're. Like, but now there are millions
of categories. There's only three.
Wait, what? But it changed how I think of
like how big my collection is. I was feeling like my collection
was too big, but then I kind of took little things I had heard
from different people and I combined it and now my
collection feels totally manageable.
So I have 3 categories right? Instead of just one my I used.
One category is watches, Watches.
And now it I have 3 collections of watches and none of the three
are that big. OK, at least.
Perfect to the old big one so that the main collection is just
called the main. Collection I kind.
Of all the watches I've talked about just now are in the main
collection right? But I the second collection not
second in importance, but just the second.
I have a feeling this has to do with me since you very clearly
made sure it was not in priority order.
This is not in priority order of importance.
The second one is sentimental OK And I felt it was important to
break that out because in the sentimental are the ones I will
not sell because OK, I have to love a watch to.
Keep it, of course. But it also has this extra
sentimental collect connection and so that makes an extra
hurdle before it could ever be sold.
Therefore I don't want it to count against me in the numbers.
For the oh, OK, that that feels very romantic.
Right. Don't count against.
Me against me these sentimental. Watches the.
Most of which or at least half of which are gifts from you.
But that's true. Yeah, Right.
So some truly lovely watches in the sentimental category.
And then the final category is called fun, fun watches.
And for everyone, I think this could be different.
It can be divided in different ways and different price points
and all of that kind of stuff. But in the fun category I have
things like Oh my G sharks OK Casios F91W that I calculator
watch. I also have my Mr. Jones watch
cause. You, but for you it's fun also
like it's a lower price point. Lower price point.
I would say you didn't have to think about it much, but you
typically don't think about it much before you buy a watch like
the 24 hours. So I I I don't want to say the.
Quick buy 24 hours was just. How long it was?
No, I know. Maybe get it.
I know I'm. Not saying that I waited some
sort of grace period. No, no, no.
I don't decide. You did not.
I decided when I saw James's watch.
But the fun watch is partly is price, because what fun watches
are to me are watches that are worth keeping even when I don't
wear them much. OK, that makes sense.
They aren't valuable enough to sell off to put towards other
watches for me. And so that's why it's like that
is a very and that could change. Like if I get to a point where
I'm like, I really need as much money as I can to buy this, then
maybe some fun watches will go because they will incrementally
get me to that goal. Would you make a fourth count of
fitness because you have three, You have more than two now that
fit in that category. Fitness watches.
No, I guess what that would just be like dress and for you
fitness, which to most people would be like an Apple Watch or
a fitness tracker. But you, Sir, are not them.
I wear a whoop to track my fitness.
That's the tracking, yes of of the fitness.
But Nike over the years, wearing an Apple Watch for working out.
It was great for the tracking side, but I did not enjoy
looking at it for the time ever. It just didn't enjoy it.
It just trained me to look at the time on my Apple Watch.
You still wore a mechanical watch with an analog display on
your left wrist, but you would look at your right wrist.
I didn't Apple Watch for the time.
I didn't realize how much until I changed the loop which has no
screen and the amount of times I looked at my right wrist I was
like oh I made. A.
But now it's been what's? A while, yeah.
So then it's. Been so so I'm guessing you
stopped? I'm hoping you've stopped
looking at your whoop to try to find the time.
I have stopped because there is no screen there.
So this was also the year I realized in terms of like
thinking differently about my collection, this is 2024 started
it because I bought the Tudor Black Bay Chronograph ink and
that was for me a quite a large watch because it was both it was
bulky in all directions. You know, it's a thick watch.
It's long across the wrist. It's.
Why use that? Bulky in all directions.
What I. Didn't say it as a negative.
No I but what a great tagline. Bulky in all directions.
I have also over the past year become more bulky in all
directions which maybe could have affected this slightly but
I embraced more. It started in 2024 but really
2025 was when I truly leaned into it.
I have embraced more than I love larger watches.
Yeah, I think it's. Really cool only but I love
larger watches so I've kept my smaller watches.
You know, last episode I talked about I have everything from 36
all the way to 44 but 2025 I bought my 43 and 44mm watches,
both Brightlings, and I just enjoy wearing them and I don't
think about how large they are. My Black Bay Chronograph 41 mil,
but quite a large 41 mil bulky in all directions that also like
just more and more comfortable with these large watches and the
fact that I like them. So sometimes when you see
everyone saying like, oh, smaller watches are better now,
right? Like we're all getting, we're
all moving away from that terrible trend of when we had
large watches and now we're going small because small is
better. You start wondering like, Oh
yeah, maybe, maybe smaller is better.
But it's I started going in that direction of feeling like, OK,
maybe I do only like smaller watches.
But then, yeah, 2024, but especially 2025, I was like, no,
no. It's nice when you don't, when
you realize that you don't have to choose.
You don't have to choose. You don't have to be in a
specific like it's your collection exactly.
So if you like a watch and it's way bigger than maybe the the
average or normal size that you would choose, it's fine.
And it's also fine if it's smaller.
And like all of that is great if you like it.
So that's, I think that sums up the big changes for me.
One, embracing that I like a broad, diverse set of sizes, but
also that I like incredibly niche use cases for each watch,
which also gives me a reason to wear them.
OK, mine is very very specific actually when I when I looked at
the themes because I only bought 2 watches.
Oh yeah. You only bought 2 watches?
Yes, I bought 3 watches. OK.
Three, you bought 3. Watches.
I bought 3 watches and you gave me one watch.
So you got 4 total. Which still I do realize as we
talk about this. That's a lot of watch watches.
It only seems small compared to my 9:00 to.
You OK? Fine anyway.
Here, Hey, let's be honest, we know people who bought more
watches than me in 2025. Absolutely.
So I mean, we're all. I'm not like some wild.
We're all in this silly world together, but my things are that
my collecting has trended smaller.
It's trended neo vintage, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and also not sports watch. I wouldn't really call them all
dress watches. No, but not sports watch.
But less sporty, yeah? So I started the year off in
March. I got a vintage Irmas which is
like 33mm and it's really it's like a predecessor of the cut.
Very cool on a bracelet 2 tone. Really cool bracelet.
And then I also bought for myself in June the JLC Master
Control Mecha Quartz, which I absolutely love, again on
bracelet. And that's one of my favorite
watches that I've ever purchased.
And then I bought. Also that one is sporty yet
especially because of the bracelet and the thinness of
that watch, it is quite elegant. So I get why you're not calling
it a sports watch even though it's a chronograph.
It is, but it just when you see it, no one's calling it a sports
watch. It's not sporty.
It's non sporty. Yeah, it's.
Technically probably considered a sports.
Watch functional functionally, but not.
Execution of it, especially on that bracelet, is quite elegant.
And then the third watch I bought.
So also these were quite spread out March, June, October, which
is a nice spread. Spread out compared to what?
And so after the Nomos forum, which was very cool because I
was involved helping the brand with storytelling, but then also
I gave a talk about like building a brand and building a
community, especially because of the work I did with Minecraft
for 13 1/2 years. So after that, as I always do,
coming back from the Nomos forum, I was like full on, just
like Nomos excited. I've been working with the team.
So I just still love it. And I just happened to be on a
Swedish auction site called Tradera.
I think it's actually Nordic. And I saw that there was one
hour left of a Nomos Ludwig that was 35mm and I just like
happened to see it and then I realized that it had the old.
Movement. It not only the movement wasn't
what got me first actually, it was actually the on the dial.
It said Nomos Glasputay SA, which is the original like mark
that it had on on the dial. And so it was up for quite
cheap. Like I was like, it's probably
going to be pretty bad condition, but it's also just
really cool. And I was just feeling like, OK,
this is I know it's an earlier model.
So I won the auction and it's been super fun.
I'll I'll talk more about the like the full watch, but it was
just really cool. It's a dress watch and it is
from like around 1996. So This is why my Neo vintage,
the JLC is 1999. The Irmas I think was 91.
So it's really I'm in the it's kind of all birth year around
birth year, which was 87 for me. But I'm definitely in that 80s
nineties with a lot of the vintage watches that I get.
I mean, you bought an IWC in 2020.
That was from 2000. Two, I think, yeah.
So I'm I have this sort of. Yeah, you like that kind of 90s
look because that watch is a 90s watch.
You know, yours came out in 2000.
But but it's the 37 O 6 IWC that that model is a very 90s model.
So you, yeah, I hadn't really thought about it, but you really
like 90s washes? Yes, I really do.
Also, the Ermes is 33, the JLC is 34, the Nomos is 35.
So I mean smaller than 36, which was very much what I had and the
other watch that I was gifted. So I'll put it in the
sentimental categories. Oh, are you going to also split
yours and make a sentiment? To category.
In order to feel better about the number in my collection, I'm
going to need to do a lot of. Categories.
OK, more categories. But you gave me in April the
Chrono star dial. Yes, and I love it so much.
Also fun because it's art Deco so it is not at all a modern
style. Oh yeah.
So really I would say just overall this year and to have
two watches on leather straps and two on bracelet, like I'm
seeing some changes in my collection Also that one is 34mm
too. So really within this like under
36? Corona Tokyo Star dial, you
know, it makes me realize I need that meter.
Always thinking about it but the thing I noticed the most
actually and and OK, I still got quite a few watches but overall
it was like a lot less of a watch fever for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The previous years you had
bought much more. 2024 I had also calmed a bit.
But yeah, 20 through 23 was those years were wild.
Yes, I was helping the watch market very significantly.
Were you contributing to the bubble?
I was. You were blowing up that.
Ball But I would say because I have been travelling about every
other week all year to Berlin to work with the Nomos team there
and then I wear Nomos every time.
So that's like half of the time wearing a Nomos, which even
though I've had, you know, quite a few Nomos, I've never worn
them half the time. That's true.
What I think that changed about my collecting is that on the
weeks that I'm home, I typically, it felt like
everything was a little bit new because I wasn't cycling through
like with my normals. It's 5 watches.
So I would, you know, like kind of trade them out.
Have a couple that I really like are my favorite, like the Super
Sardines. So I wear that one a lot when
I'm travelling. And then there's ones that I
have that I wear a lot less like my Orion, but it's still it's
quite a few watches that I can switch out, but they're all
leather strap or like on a strap.
And so I felt that when I got home, I definitely tended
towards a bracelet. And also most of the time since
June, I wore the JLC. Yeah, so, so I don't think it
made me trade a lot out. So I guess I'm still the same.
I just wear the watch that I got most recently that.
Means in 2025 you wore mostly Nomos and your JLC.
How does that make you feel about your Rolexes?
Did 2025 make you feel differently since over the years
I would say Rolex is typically the brand you wear the most, but
in 2025 that clearly wasn't the case.
Do you feel differently because of that?
Hard hitting questions. I feel like I have realized that
I am I mean people know this about me, but even more so, I
really love the Rolex OP's that was for perpetual it that is my
Rolex. So I do feel like the the other
ones that I have, I've even been thinking about.
I'm, I hesitate to say this because my sister will jump for
joy, but I also think about like my my role, like state just is
like, can I justify just just can I date just justify?
Can I date justify having a watch that's just sitting there?
And I do have a lot of other watches just sitting there.
So that's probably not the first, but I realize I love the
O PS because over time, like I just like the simplicity of it.
It's just a great more sporty watch for me.
This is. I don't know if simplicity is
the right word, because if you're talking about simplicity,
the date just has more of it because it's a very basic white
dial date just. I meant more like a brushed
case, a dial with no date, just like a very like a one color.
Well, for me it's always one color.
It's not one color. Your celebration is many colors.
So This is why I'm wondering because I feel like the O PS, at
least the ones that you own, they have so much more
personality. So simple isn't the word I think
about when I think you're O PS. I actually think of them as
being bold and fun and your date just is much more toned down.
I mean, that was why you chose it originally.
I guess it's more that I realized that like I still think
the OP that I gave my dad the the gold indices and the silver
dial is like the perfect. Watch.
If I had to have one watch, that would probably be like, if I was
like, OK, I can have one Rolex, it might be that I might I would
have. A harder time, okay.
OK. Sir, if we were in an alternate
timeline where you could only have one.
OK, OK, now I'm getting really red and embarrassed.
But anyway, that's kind of what made me think of think of that
as like maybe someday I'm just an OP collector.
I don't think that's probably going to happen, but you know,
in like the world in my mind. But again, this.
Is like when you think about it. The date just, you know,
alongside. But is still the perfect watch
the two watch collection. You've owned that watch for
almost 12 years now. Yeah, I don't think it's going.
Anywhere it'll be the first one you get.
Rid no, and also because I have both an oyster bracelet and the
jubilee so there's no reason I think I just need to wear it.
And it's the seamless jubilee. Yeah, without a clasp.
Yeah, no quick adjust. No, but that's that's not a
watch for me. Yeah, it's it was fun to look
through and kind of think about what I picked this year because
I don't I don't know that otherwise I would have seen as
much of the themes of like the neo vintage and like really this
less sporty after having a lot like I mean, before sporty
watches was my brand, you know, outside of just specifically
Rolex. OK, but it was very I had very
few, it was either like very dress watch or very sporty.
This is like a Cartier tank in rose gold or a date just for
example, you know, like and most of my collection followed that
those lines and now it's moving in a different direction with
like, you know, neo vintage watches on bracelets like the
JLC. It has this elegant, but also
sporty. I wouldn't have remembered it
was a chronograph. I mean, I I do know it.
Yeah, called it a Mecca Quartz. Yeah, I know.
The chemical quartz that's not. Oh yeah, because that's the
chronograph part. Is that.
Well, yeah, I mean, but I don't I I like the design of it.
It it's a super cool. One I'm timing nothing as always
I never seen. You use it for timing anything I
OK, so at the end of 2025 I thought.
I changed everything, you know this.
I decided, OK, I'm going to sell off a bunch of watches.
And I even put together a list of the watches that were for
sale. And it was.
It was a painful list of watches for sale, but my idea was sell a
bunch of watches and put all of that towards one watch.
Therefore consolidating the number of watches I owned
without and getting a new watch. A new most expensive watch I
have ever bought, but not putting new money into watches.
So just a nice consolidation. You really went down that trail
for like a couple weeks? Yes, of thought a couple weeks.
Of thinking about it, certain I would do it.
I I don't feel that way at all. Totally abandoned that plan.
I do still want to sell a few watches.
I, I, I, I do need to cut down a little bit, but that money won't
be nearly as much because I've taken half the watches that I
had put on the sell list. Half of them are.
Back every time who looks at one of them, they go off the sell
list. Well that was the problem.
I went and tried them back. On you picked cool stuff.
Yeah, turns out I bought good watches.
Turns out you're like a really good watch collector.
So good at picking watches for myself.
Watch Collector like it's a banger of a collection.
That's what I heard. That is what I heard.
So I do still want to do a little bit of that
consolidation. I do have a watch in mind for
that and I've had this watch in mind for a while, but it's no
longer going to be like a major restructuring of my collection.
We're not going to say it out. Loud.
No. OK, not yet.
You'll hold it. In I will hold it in because
I'll try to change my mind. OK, OK, perfect.
We would love to hear if you have some things that, some
themes, some ideas. What happened in your collecting
in 2025. Yeah, it'll be awesome to you.
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