Curious as to the direction of your collection.. it's here, there and sideways....
Awesome pens too
Well caught, I guess it’s best described as me growing up a little, and work bonuses being kinder.
I was 14 in 1999 and convinced myself from the £1.75 a day I earned delivering papers in horizontal wind and rain, I could buy the cheapest Tag Heuer - at that point a £275 F1 quartz. So had to find one, I really wanted a Tag CA1212 however they are tricky to find.
My first real watch was the blue aquaracer I bought of my first career pay check post uni, it’s still a nice wear, I hit my dad and brother matching ones also (a watch is a watch to them).
If you seen Goldeneye at 9 years old, a blue seamaster was a must in the adult toy list, I picked that up here impulsively.
Orange plannet oceans are a fairly usual purchase in the UK for early year collections as 2nd or third watches, the Ploprof was a new level of ridiculous last year and a spur of the moment birthday purchase from bed to distract myself from getting old, and UPS is only a 4 day shipment cycle from the USA.
It was Rolex heavy, a 116718 included which was ridiculous but fun, I started to move to Vacheron then most recently a Patek, for work wear.
It needs an AP, and probably another Deepsea- it fitted like a glove. My omega soft spot has me looking for a Aquaterra GMT worldtime too, after a Patek worldtime looked like a toy on my wrist size.
Asia is great for larger models as they don’t seem in vogue here, the Railmaster XXL was a random purchase, love at first sight a few years ago however impossible to find in the UK, then I found one locally in KL one day.
The pens have a bit more relevance, each time I published a paper through my career I would buy one from a bonus paid, nice nostalgia.
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