Houston, I may have a problem!

Chako · **on:** September 29, 2013, 10:59:56 PM

Here is an old but current photo of most of my watches. Not sure how I ended up with so many. I mean, all you need is one or two.

I was looking back into the archives, and thought some of you might enjoy this photograph...talk about new world problems.

I haven't added to it lately...but I do have to fight the urge not to...and that is totally ridiculous. I have to remind myself I am not a watch collector. I do wear most of these in a somewhat haphazard rotation.

detron · **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2013, 11:02:22 PM

thank you for re-sharing, I never saw this, and I think it looks great!

Steinar · **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2013, 11:22:39 PM

I wouldn't mind a close-up of the pocket watches.

derekmac · **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2013, 11:33:21 PM

I love watches too. Whenever we go shopping I always stop at the watch displays and drool.

I don't have too many, probably 8-10. But I'm always on the lookout for a good deal.

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microbe · **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2013, 11:39:00 PM

oh? If this may be a problem, I wonder what your tool collection is?

RamoN · **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2013, 12:18:48 AM

Great collection there

, i also wouldnt mind a closeup on the wathces on the left of the picture

lowtech · **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:47:45 AM

If you think those are too many, please send the Timex WS4 in the upper right and what I take to be a Protrek or Pathfinder in the lower left to me - I´ll take care of them...

Chako · **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2013, 12:29:46 PM

You have a keen eye lowtech. That is indeed a Casio Pathfinder, and bang on the Timex as well.

lowtech · **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2013, 03:47:30 PM

That might be because of my "Problem" with watches is even bigger than yours...

sawman · **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2013, 05:07:07 PM

I just don't see a problem with it. I don't think that's too many at all. I'm a bit of a watch fiend myself

Aloha · **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2013, 05:12:28 PM

I enjoy watches as well and like to wear certain watches at certain times. even though I have mostly gshocks they all have their differences. I do have a work watch however and its a simple casio that I really enjoy. nice watch box btw

lowtech · **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2013, 06:22:34 PM

Quote from: sawman on September 30, 2013, 05:07:07 PM

I just don't see a problem with it. I don't think that's too many at all. I'm a bit of a watch fiend myself

I don´t see a problem there myself, but my wife tells me that´s just a part of the problem...

jcr · **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:29:58 PM

what no tritium?

Chako · **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2013, 03:23:27 AM

Not a big fan of tritium. Don't know why.

Chako · **Reply #14 on:** October 07, 2013, 02:10:07 PM

After posting this thread, I got to thinking about the various watches that my mother had. Well after a lot of searching, I found them. Unbeknownst to me, she also kept my first watch. I didn't even know I had this watch still. To think she kept it safe and sound all these years is amazing. I would lie if I said I didn't shed a little tear as all the old memories of this watch came to the forefront.

My father bought this watch to teach me how to tell time. It was a failed experiment, as I think I was 5 or 6 years old at the time, and I just couldn't figure out how to read it. Consequently, it didn't get used by me much...even though my parents forced me to wear it for a year or so. The good news, I eventually learned how to read analogue time, but completely forgot about my first watch until I saw it once again.

Here it is...and it will go into my er...watch collection even though I can't wear it. I probably should take it into a jewelers to have a look at it and replace the battery. I hope it hasn't leaked inside. Even so, this watch is a bit precious to me.

And to my mother's watches. There are even a few dress watches from the time she was a Bell telephone operator. I strongly suspect a watch or two from her mother there as well.

I think I am going to find room for them with my other watches. It is good to keep them altogether I am thinking.

RamoN · **Reply #15 on:** October 07, 2013, 04:26:16 PM

Thats a nice find, first watches are always packed with memories.

Whats the watch on the upper part of the pic with a flowered/greenish pattern? it looks really good, ill keep it in mind as a gift option.

Chako · **Reply #16 on:** October 07, 2013, 07:09:59 PM

That one was my mothers fancy watch for a while. It is an Aspen Quartz with japan movement decorated with abalone shell.

EDIT: The watch below that is of some interest. My father had a larger one, but that got ruined in the early 80s. My mother still had here 70s LED watch. No markings on it other than some numbers on the back. I wonder if it would still work.

Some info on LED watches.

http://crazywatches.w.interia.pl/led.html

sawman · **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:57:43 AM

There's only one way to find out if it still works

Just plunk some new batteries in and hope for the best.

jekostas · **Reply #18 on:** October 10, 2013, 05:03:44 AM

That's not a watch problem. Lemme tell you about when it becomes problematic:

I sold a watch to a guy a few years back (3-4), and he worked at a car dealership close to the downtown core. He asked me to drop it off for him, no problem, making a pretty good profit.

Takes me to his office, opens the cabinet behind his desk and there is literally, and I mean *literally*, a pile of watch ~20cm/8in high. No boxes, no display case, just a pile of watches.

He turns to me and says "these are the watches I don't want my wife to know about".

That is a watch problem

sawman · **Reply #19 on:** October 10, 2013, 05:08:22 AM

Quote from: jekostas on October 10, 2013, 05:03:44 AM

That's not a watch problem. Lemme tell you about when it becomes problematic:

I sold a watch to a guy a few years back (3-4), and he worked at a car dealership close to the downtown core. He asked me to drop it off for him, no problem, making a pretty good profit.

Takes me to his office, opens the cabinet behind his desk and there is literally, and I mean *literally*, a pile of watch ~20cm/8in high. No boxes, no display case, just a pile of watches.

He turns to me and says "these are the watches I don't want my wife to know about".

That is a watch problem

I love that story

pfrsantos · **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2013, 12:29:56 PM

Quote from: jekostas on October 10, 2013, 05:03:44 AM

That's not a watch problem. Lemme tell you about when it becomes problematic:

I sold a watch to a guy a few years back (3-4), and he worked at a car dealership close to the downtown core. He asked me to drop it off for him, no problem, making a pretty good profit.

Takes me to his office, opens the cabinet behind his desk and there is literally, and I mean *literally*, a pile of watch ~20cm/8in high. No boxes, no display case, just a pile of watches.

He turns to me and says "these are the watches I don't want my wife to know about".

That is a watch problem

That's not a watch problem, it's a wife problem...