just for fun, here are my 3 lonely pilots together.
All 3 are limited editons, one on 27 pieces, one 100 and one 200 pieces only.
Sandblasted steel, titanium and ceramic cases.
Hapy with this little subcollection of pilots.
PS : why lonely pilots ? they have no dates
;)
Three very rare birds that have, at least, each other for company. Quite a set
of dateless delights!
Haha, no dates = lonely pilots! Love it!
That's a very special trio Tonny, congrats!
Very nice triple Tonny. Congrats. Was great to be there to see the 3rd one
arrive....
What a lonely yet lovely trio Tonny
Congratulations
This isn't a sub-collection ... this IS my collection :-)
Very nice trio, 2 Bp's but so different in appearance.
Awesome trio Tonny and David as well. Congrats.
David, your Mark XV was exactly my very first IWC watch on that awesome
bracelet. Pure classic! And it was lucky cause it had a date ;-)
Picture is from 19. March 2005.That little boy is a grown up man today.
Unfortunately don't have that watch anymore :-(
Tonny, you've hit a Trifecta there my friend. Thanks for sharing.
My main issue with "Having More than One Watch" ... is justifying this to my
partner.
Clearly, the same money could have been used for other things, and I have
assisted with unrelated purchases.
Considering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a Watch Collection is somewhere
between "Aesthetic" and "Self-actualization".
The benefit is very obvious to me, otherwise I would not have spent the money:
every time I look at them, I get pleasure from seeing small mechanical marvels
that also happen to tell the time.
But still I get comments along the lines of "To the people that work for me,
that is the same price as a car".
The character "Gollum" from the Lord of the Rings has also been mentioned.
Do others have a strategy to justify a watch collection, or a different way of
framing it?
Thanks.
The Mk XV has just come back from a service / case refresh, and looks new
again.
It was bought in 2001, and has sentimental value to me.
I wear that when a smaller / lighter watch is more appropriate.
I'd just say: We're all in the same boat - more or less!
We've all gone through these phases and are still going.
Justifying beatiful things that cost money is never easy. But once you're over
it, you'll be able to enjoy it to the Max.
Congrats again on the newly restored Mark XV. I'm sure it's beautiful as on
the first day.
collection = collection + BigPilotRacingWorks;
Really nice, big congrats, David!!!
Huge congrats on the Racing Works David!
What an awesome watch!!!
Lovely and impressive sub set-of your collection Tonny, each special on it's own merits !
