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TimeTechTalk.com > Time Tech Talk > 3T News/New Member Introductions > First attendance at a watch-addicts self-help group |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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(Stands up, shy and awkward, clears throat, stares at feet) "My name is 1jammot and I'm a watch-addict..." (Sits down heavily, face bright red, while other attendees clap) I collect watches for fun. When I just bought watches as a useful clothing accessory, I could spend much too much on just one watch. I shudder at the thought of it, because I know that £4000 spent buying a Rolex actually breaks down into £1000 for buying a watch and £3000 for buying an ego trip, a stack of publicity, and a questionable amount of research and development. Now if I just keep my eyes and ears awake, instead of only getting one watch, I can up my collection by 8 good watches for the same £4000. Question of personal preference? Absolutely! And I know exactly where my preference lies. Some of the watches that really please me have cost about £250, like a Grovana Pro Diver's, or even, honestly, a Rolex-inspired "toy" that I picked up for $4.95, which has taken mighty abuse, been dropped in all manner of liquids, and still ploughs on, ticking like a time-bomb in a low-budget film, and giving me the time as accurately as I need it. And I only bought it to remind me of the hawker's spiel! I love it! I'm interested in the technical aspects, but not obsessively, and a great deal in the aesthetics. I try to get watches that illustrate an aesthetic trend but maintain a certain standard technically speaking, which means no replicas, (my $4.95 "friend" excepted on jocularity grounds), and no quartz. I reckon getting an automatic movement into the box, and powering all the functions, make life more difficult for the designers to do as they please, aesthetically speaking, than would a quartz solution. I do have quartz watches. They are all carefully put away in a drawer, in bubble-wrap and marked with the name of the kind person who gave each one to me as a present "for your collection". I am a well-organised coward, and always want to have the corresponding watch on my wrist when we visit or entertain one of the well-intentioned benefactors. I enjoy exchanging in fora, but lose interest quickly in exchanges where each sign-off line is followed by a long, irrelevant and un-verifiable list of the contributor's watches. Watches are about quiet, contented enjoyment, (not about impressing friends and acquaintances), with a hint of thought and learning running all the way through every aspect of our very peaceful, very mild, form of mania. |
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KenC Admin 
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 And welcome to 3T! Please note the absence of a list of any of the watches I own! :D |
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murphy j 3T WIS 
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KenC wrote:
What Ken said.:D Oh! Glad you found us. We can help; help make it worse that is;). |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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Hi there! Two Snoopy emoticons on my first day; thing have started well. |
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Paxman 3T WIS 
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Welcome to 3T. I like the cut of your jib. Nothing more boorish than to have to list your watches or ejaculate your entire collection upon us at once. Of course my own hubris forces me to list my watches for you now as well as a brief description of how I cam to possess them... wait ... aieee!!  |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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smile8.gif Hello and welcome to 3T. ;) |
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zippofan 3T WIS 
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Welcome to 3T, aka "Enablers Are Us" :D I don't list watches in my sig, it would be too long as I am a "hoarder", just like with my Zippo collection! Seriously though, I always felt that having a bunch to choose from makes the average day a little more interesting, I can match my watch to my shirt for the day (for which my wife thinks I am nuts :shock:, though I don't hassle her about matching shoes to her purse, LOL). Plus there are so many "sleeper" watches out there, like Debaufre/Steinhart, Orient, Zeno, various Russians that are reasonably priced and high quality that make going for the expensive brand names sort of a waste. Not that I would turn down a Rolex/Omega et. al., I just can't afford them! JMHO hand6.gif Cheers, Griff |
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srh_pres 3T WIS 
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Welcome aboard 3T 1jammot... you are among fellow addicts here for sure... resistance is futile... :D |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, Thank you all for the welcome! This feels like a far more comfortable "home" than ******* or ########! I would like to put a personal touch to the decor, which leads me to ask if there is a charitable person around who could give me fool-proof, step-by-step, instructions for up-loading photos from my ridiculously under-employed camera. Ahh, the watches I could have bought for the price of that! |
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Paxman 3T WIS
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1jammot wrote: zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, This should help: http://timetechtalk.com/view_topic.php?id=1825&forum_id=5 |
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KenC Admin
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Paxman wrote: 1jammot wrote:zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, I updated this as there have been some minor changes to the Photobucket format. |
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Topher1556 3T WIS 
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Welcome! I'm a little shocked though. Personally, I like to show the list of watches I have (as I do on one other forum...I don't think you can even technically do it on this forum ;)). I think it's a neat way to quickly see what I'm interested in. I've also met people (online) who were searching for more information about a particular model that I happened to have. It's not about boasting for me, or impressing others, or anything of the such. If I wanted to do that, then I'd be a completely different person. For me, the watches I have tell a little about what I'm like. Just my $0.02 :D Last edited on Tue May 6th, 2008 02:37 pm by Topher1556 |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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Topher1556, I so much agree with you, on principle, but I think the idea you advocate is spoilt by people who can't say "Some Rolex and Omega", but just have to list every model of Rolex and Omega they've ever dreamed of. Somebody may be very interested in Rolex, but not yet have one. I'm interested in Omega, but I'll admit I went to the duty-free areas from time to time and bought one. I'm not proud of having shown such a lack of taste and patience; that's not collecting! It's like fishing with dynamite. Where's the fun? Some people dear to me have received some very unexpected presents, and my watch collection is still just as satisfying. And credible! There are so many good quality watches out there that can be secured for very reasonable money. I've just agreed on a nice little "business suit" watch, ETA movement, for €112, delivery included. I've been after that one for months, but the price always seemed a bit high. I got it at under the price I was aiming for. Deeply satisfying! If I don't wreck Photobucket I'll up-load some pics. (Do we include sun-dials, cell phones and hour-glasses?) Is there a debate dedicated to this in a more appropriate part of TTT? I'd like to pursue it, but here would be wrong, would it not? |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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1st of all welcome to 3Thand6.gif...2nd how about sharing the names of these bargain gems you are talking about with maybe a pic so we have some idea.... ;)....everyone has their own idea of this hobby and whatever it may be or what suits that WIS at this time as far as their wants and needs is Awesome imhohand6.gif....not everyone shares your opinion as far as high end watches as I am sure many would disagree with mine but we are here to share and that's what makes being a WIS so inviting to manywatch2.gif |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS
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Yea there are watches out there for most every level and taste of WIS. I have watches worth $50 to $5000 and love them all. Some favorites in the collection but it is not based on value it is based on how I like them. Look, feel and comfort on the wrist. As the saying goes. "To each their own..." :) |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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oagaspar, Skipdawg, I agree with you. The very essence of a collector's forum site is the variety of opinions and ideas about collecting. I will defend anyone's right to disagree with me, but it has to be quid pro quo. You gentlemen have demonstrated to me that such is the case here. I am very much looking forward to learning from you all. I will certainly up-load the results of my recent hunting. I promised my wife to reduce the average value of my collection if she would promise to never raise the subject again. Hohohohoho!!! She did not foresee that the average could be reduced by adding lower-value watches; she thought I would do another round of prezzies of watches above the average. I will get into those up-loads, but, really, success will not bless the first attempt, nor the... It's just shy of 11 pm here, so this is sign off now, to go and dream of a land of free watches. |
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