A collector, always a collector, and you?

[mk2jag]

I was wondering while contemplating my watch collection this afternoon, how did I get into collecting and when did it start. I have always collected stuff. It started as a kid with old 8mm films, then baseball cards and then moved on to comic books. As I got older I started getting into more expensive toys like cars. At the moment my focus is on watches and Italian gloves. The watches I now have: Rolex, Tudor, Omega en Heuer must complement each other but also my carefully cultivated glove collection. Yes, a bit OCD!

How did you start and what else do collect? and do your watches have a certain connection with your other hobbies?

[brandrea]

Watches is where it began, and where it will end for me I suspect

[timedate]

i have never been a collector of anything or an enthusiast,

i have fads, i try different things, activities and material things,

I am into old japanese cars at the moment and enjoying my final rolex, my day date.

i might have a grand seiko next year, i might try fly fishing.

i spent years rough shooting, it was probably the longest i stuck at anything consistently at 9 years, but i sold everything last year ready for the next challenge, i also got rid of my golf equipment as it was driving me mad after 20 years of it.

[Sublovin]

Have been a watch collector since around age 4, so I think this hobby is not a passing thing for me

[mk2jag]

Originally Posted by Sublovin

Have been a watch collector since around age 4, so I think this hobby is not a passing thing for me

4! do you still have your first watch?

[pandrew]

Watches and handguns (shooting). Been collecting both for 30 years.

[nick800]

I used to collect Chris Reeve Knives. Very cool craftsmanship.

[watchwatcher]

Yeah...recovering audiophile here.

[Dr.Spaceman]

As a kid I started with Spawn action figures and comic books. Then it was paintball guns. Then a car modding phase. Then it was real guns. More recently I was into affordable watches. Then came high end pocket knives. Now I’m on watches but more into having a few quality Swiss pieces, and expect to stick with that for some time. I do plan on getting back into high end knives when I have more disposable income.

[jps3b]

Originally Posted by pandrew

Watches and handguns (shooting). Been collecting both for 30 years.

Same here. But just because I have a collection, doesn’t mean I’m a collector. 25 years of buying time pieces and fire arms and before you know it, you have a collection. I do not brand myself as a collector because I don’t buy them to collect, I buy them to use. If that makes any sense

[pandrew]

Originally Posted by jps3b

Same here. But just because I have a collection, doesn’t mean I’m a collector. 25 years of buying time pieces and fire arms and before you know it, you have a collection. I do not brand myself as a collector because I don’t buy them to collect, I buy them to use. If that makes any sense

Perfect sense, sums up my story also. Buy it, wear it, shoot it.

[Rowlf]

Incorrigible flipper since youth: baseball cards, action figures, comic books, hot wheels cars, etc.

Now: watches.

Had been guitars too, but since I've found a wonderful Martin 00-21, my pursuit came to a grinding halt. Guitar nirvana. Of course, now I have to actually practice.

Thankfully you don't have to practice watches.

[KarlFr]

if I´d starting collecting more than watches I´ll end up divorced

[Sublovin]

Originally Posted by mk2jag

4! do you still have your first watch?

I do! It’s a Timex Snoopy Red Baron watch. I loved that thing....started it all.

[avega357]

I collected thing as a kid but when I became a teen I fell out of that stage

I started collecting watches in my 40s
For many different reasons, the watches have more a sentimental value than aesthetic value

My uncle spent 40 years as a watchmaker and his son has followed in his footsteps so it was always close


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[mk2jag]

Originally Posted by Sublovin

I do! It’s a Timex Snoopy Red Baron watch. I loved that thing....started it all.

Wow!! let's see a picture of that beauty!!

[ltmgeller]

I used to collect things that are prohibited from being posted here. I've replaced that with Rolex watches.

[datejustrms]

When I was real young I collected baseball cards. I collected beer cans when I was in my late teens, early 20's. Now it's just watches and a few sports memorabilia items.

[mk2jag]

Originally Posted by ltmgeller

I used to collect things that are prohibited from being posted here. I've replaced that with Rolex watches.

Prohibited, that makes us wonder

[G M Francis]

Guitars and watches.

[Yoda_Eating_Pizza]

As a kid, I collected rocks, then different colored marbles, then arcade tokens. Nothing for their value, just fun. In college I collected (hoarded) green M&Ms.

Have a guitar collection. Again, nothing "collectible," to me they are just tools.

[faimag]

stamps and watches

and the most expensive of all: girls

[Fat_ninja]

I collect money... so that i can make it rain when Im in da club ;)

[Amochosto]

I’ve always collected coins, starting from grabbing silver coins from my change (Canadian dimes quarters and higher circulation coins were silver up until 1967-68 and can still very occasionally be found in your change), and hoarding them, when I became older I started buying some that appealed to me at coin shops. In adulthood I developed a passion for gold coins especially ones that had been circulated as currency, for example older British sovereigns or US $20 gold coins.

At the same time, I have always had watches as far as I can remember, and as I got older I started buying nicer watches with my allowance and as I got older from summer jobs.

So I guess I’ve always been a collector.

[edyu]

Hmm I don't think I'm a collector unless you consider books as I have like thousands of books that I've been donating left and right lately. Nothing is what people would consider collectible books though.

Watches I'm also careful not to buy too many.

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[Brew]

I have a straight razor collection, but I no longer acquire razors, just shave with them.

[jrs146]

I wouldn’t say that I’m a collector. But I do tend to get fixated on certain things when I’m focused on it. Watches has become that for me over the last 8 years or so.


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[Avav1]

When my grandfather passed, I begged my grandmother for his watch. It's an old Timex. She could not find it, as he had been in a nursing home for months. About a year after he passed she called me, she found it in a coffee can in their house. I was 16, and that was my first watch. I'm now 39, have more watches, but that Timex is still the most important one to me...

[s2h904]

Sports cards-autographs......