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Main Forums => General Discussion - Modern Watches => Topic started by: G.MAC on June 04, 2013, 06:42:18 PM
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I am intrigued if ever any members at the start of this hobby decide how they would like to end this hobby? I used to think once I got a 'grail' watch, I would stop collecting. Having achieved that, whilst the itch is no more there, I personally don't feel that the journey has come to an end. I just find a different reason to collect a watch. My latest reason; I would like to collect one piece from my birth year. It seems to me only bankruptcy, heavy responsibilities or the inevitable passing of oneself would finally put a halt to this madness. :Laughing_on_floor: So my question to all members is as the topic suggests; "how have you, if ever, decided to end this hobby?"
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Sorry cant help but think of this poster now hehehe
Well for me....it ends when i end.... :P
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.hitfix.com/assets/1962/HangoverPart3posterKenJeongPTWarnerBros.jpg)
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Go to Tibet.... quit MWF...
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Until one reaches a stage of selflessness and can survive on a gingko seed for a month or is no longer breathing, one will always have worldy desires such as greed, lust, etc... :Blue:
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end it? I don't even started yet
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End of the WATCH??? I DONT THINK!!!
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End this hobby? Maybe when I am 6 feet under? :Laughing_on_floor:
I doubt there will really be an "end"
Maybe just slowing down, or temporary holdback... there will always a relapse sooner or later.
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I actually stopped buying...
...until the next ''pristine condition + full set + hard to find + deal of the century + even if sell wont lose money deal comes long + very reputable seller'' come along knocking at my door.... ;D
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should be the hardest question to all of us :'(
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I don't think 'this' ever ends. It merely moves on and takes a different form. A 'new' bad habit, so to speak.
Take for example, I used to buy plenty of sneakers at one point in my life. When I say a lot, I mean I had over 90 pairs stashed away in my cupboard. Before that, it was another bad habit. Currently, I can't afford any bad habits, but I know when funds become available... *ahem*
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when my hands were chopped from palm onwards to elbow...
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Look of all the replies from the heavily poisoned! :laugh:
I Want to.
I wanted to end watch collecting at the age of 40 (which is next year Nov) and either end it with a Big Bang or a simple birth year watch or to buy the watch that started me out in this hobby (Omega Speedmaster). A symbolic watch that was "born" in 1974 is the Tag Silverstone but I don't quite take a fancy of it.
A lot of discipline involved buddy!!
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I have stop buying since my bank balance doesn't permit anymore. Therefore i can only think-about , wish-about and fantasize and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that . Its good since it keep me working harder and it is like a "motivation" to me,,, wahhahahahah !
But when that day comes and my balance permit, i will have my wishes granted and goals achieved !! lol...
To be totally away from watches, it's impossible. I enjoy even by looking through the display windows of local dealers even on watches that i have seen many many times !
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I guess we will stop when we find another hobby to distract the current one, before I started to really like watches, I was into golf and thinking I will be become Tiger Woods, buying different golf sets, shoes, caps, balls, tees and especially gloves. Now all lying in the house collecting dust and become spider nest.
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My late best friend once told me " Mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter". Of course that was in jest but on a personal note, a lot of things don't matter so much now. :Praying:
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"...I'm only human born to make mistakes....."
Heard of this song?
I'm only human thats why it never stop
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it would never stop...stop collecting watches maybe. But in the end it'll just switch to something else equally expensive.
Boys and their toys... it'll never stop. Just the toys get more expensive.
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Maybe the best is to fix the number of watches to own at any one time. Flip as needed, but never increase past the magic number. I'm trying to stick to the number 3.
:Laughing_on_floor:
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when my hands were chopped from palm onwards to elbow...
:Laughing_on_floor:
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NIKE: JUST DO IT
ADIDAS: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING
MALAYSIA: MALAYSIA BOLEH
MWF: WHY STOP ON THIS WATCH, WHEN STILL CAN BUY?
;D
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NIKE: JUST DO IT
ADIDAS: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING
MALAYSIA: MALAYSIA BOLEH
MWF: WHY STOP ON THIS WATCH, WHEN STILL CAN BUY?
;D
UM: APA LAGI CINA MAHU.....MORE LOLEK
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End it? You gotta be kidding!
My watches are getting buried with me (apart from the 16600, which will be a 21st birthday gift for my future son).
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First hobby which a person cannot get out off. :Laughing_on_floor: But have you all ever foreseen at the beginning whether you are going to stop at any time at all?
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:Praying:
When I buy a watch that costs more than my first car (when new). An early 90s Proton Iswara.
When that happens, I'm done. I think an AP or PP ought to do it.
:Laughing_on_floor:
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:Praying:
When I buy a watch that costs more than my first car (when new). An early 90s Proton Iswara.
When that happens, I'm done. I think an AP or PP ought to do it.
:Laughing_on_floor:
Most Rolex sport models already cost more than a new Proton Iswara in the 90s no?
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:Praying:
When I buy a watch that costs more than my first car (when new). An early 90s Proton Iswara.
When that happens, I'm done. I think an AP or PP ought to do it.
:Laughing_on_floor:
Either you got badly ripped off when you got your Iswara or you enjoy super good discounts on your watches. I hope it's the latter..... :D
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:Praying:
When I buy a watch that costs more than my first car (when new). An early 90s Proton Iswara.
When that happens, I'm done. I think an AP or PP ought to do it.
:Laughing_on_floor:
Either you got badly ripped off when you got your Iswara or you enjoy super good discounts on your watches. I hope it's the latter..... :D
:o
Kind of realized how cheap the Iswara was when it was new in '92, thanks to gov subsidy I guess (big investment then though for a new hire out of University). I seemed to have hit that goal with a Rolex GMT IIc duo tone. No matter, I will give myself an out and either say to choose inflation adjusted Ringgit OR my next later car - Honda Civic late 90s (after that Honda Accord....) - whichever ones higher.
Either ways, I figure I'll probably stop with a high complication PP, AP or VC.
:Cheers:
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:Praying:
When I buy a watch that costs more than my first car (when new). An early 90s Proton Iswara.
When that happens, I'm done. I think an AP or PP ought to do it.
:Laughing_on_floor:
Either you got badly ripped off when you got your Iswara or you enjoy super good discounts on your watches. I hope it's the latter..... :D
:o
Kind of realized how cheap the Iswara was when it was new in '92, thanks to gov subsidy I guess (big investment then though for a new hire out of University). I seemed to have hit that goal with a Rolex GMT IIc duo tone. No matter, I will give myself an out and either say to choose inflation adjusted Ringgit OR my next later car - Honda Civic late 90s (after that Honda Accord....) - whichever ones higher.
Either ways, I figure I'll probably stop with a high complication PP, AP or VC.
:Cheers:
Excuses are what those sound like.... :mooning:
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I will stop this once I completed my holy trinity journey.. Keep my finger cross..
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Most Rolex sport models already cost more than a new Proton Iswara in the 90s no?
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Easily. At 26k RM on average, it is pretty much on par.