Any Swiss Automatic Watch fans/collectors here?

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I always had cheap watches as fashion items when I was younger, but decided to make it a hobby of collecting nice swiss-made, automatic/mechanical watches as an adult.

When I graduated college and got my first engineering job in 2014, I spent my 1st paycheck to treat my family to a fancy dinner and my 2nd one on treating my wrist! Everyone knows the big Rolex name, but I was never really a fan of the diver design. I ended up going with a Montblanc Timewalker Chronograph and spent a little more than I care to admit ?

Added a couple more to my collection over the years and fast forward to last month where I just added this gem:

Eterna Adventic GMT

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I had a small collection of autos, I sold most of them and just have a couple Seiko divers now. One of them is a vintage 6309.

I was blowing too much money on them ?
 

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I always had cheap watches as fashion items when I was younger, but decided to make it a hobby of collecting nice swiss-made, automatic/mechanical watches as an adult.

When I graduated college and got my first engineering job in 2014, I spent my 1st paycheck to treat my family to a fancy dinner and my 2nd one on treating my wrist! Everyone knows the big Rolex name, but I was never really a fan of the diver design. I ended up going with a Montblanc Timewalker Chronograph and spent a little more than I care to admit ?

Added a couple more to my collection over the years and fast forward to last month where I just added this gem:

Eterna Adventic GMT

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I'm into watches as well. I currently have 9, almost all mechanical/automatics. Unfortunately, the only Swiss Made happens to be a Quartz one. Still pricey tho! lol
I mostly have Seiko (Prospex line) and all are Divers with one Field watch.
 
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I had a small collection of autos, I sold most of them and just have a couple Seiko divers now. One of them is a vintage 6309.

I was blowing too much money on them ?
That Seiko 6309 looks pretty good! And I can totally relate on the money blowing part LOL. Between Si mods and watch collection, that probably could've been a downpayment on a house ?
 
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I'm into watches as well. I currently have 9, almost all mechanical/automatics. Unfortunately, the only Swiss Made happens to be a Quartz one. Still pricey tho! lol
I mostly have Seiko (Prospex line) and all are Divers with one Field watch.
Ya, even Swiss made quartz watches are expensive! Didn't realize how popular Seiko divers were!
 


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I was getting into watches... then I caught the modding bug and well one hobby had to go. I've sold a few, only ones left are sub-$100 ones from TJ Maxx or Invicta. Someday in the future I would love to have a nice watch collection but there are more fun things to spend my money on at this point. I also love the design and style of a lot of high end watches but I can't see spending dumb money on Rolex or the like... Omegas are a good price point for the quality they tout.

I actually picked up a few "super reps" from China to get an idea for wearing watches like those - how people look at you etc. They were actually pretty damn good quality, and I liked the watches, but it made me realize for sure I would not spend the money to have like ~$30k on my wrist, or more. Some of these Richard Mille watches... c'mon man $200k on your wrist? Even if you're rich you could do a lot better with that money. The only one I may consider is a Rolex explorer II someday as I was absolutely smitten with the 216570. Other than that, I'd love a Seamaster. Classic and classy, and not really too expensive for what you get. And if the stars align... it will be one of these, the Seamaster Commander 007.

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I am not a collector but I do own some nice
Swiss watches. The most sought after is an Omega
Speedmaster Professional chronometer that I bought in Geneva
in 1967 for about 100$.
NASA selected it to be the watch of astronauts who
went to the moon in 1969.
Today, it is worth a few thousands euros.
Probably I will sell it before I die.
 
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I am not a collector but I do own some nice
Swiss watches. The most sought after is an Omega
Speedmaster Professional chronometer that I bought in Geneva
in 1967 for about 100$.
NASA selected it to be the watch of astronauts who
went to the moon in 1969.
Today, it is worth a few thousands euros.
Probably I will sell it before I die.
Someone is selling their 1967 Omega Speedmaster Professional chrono for almost $13k USD!
https://www.chrono24.com/omega/speedmaster-105012---66-cb-case--id14236932.htm
 

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Horology is a fascinating world, at the moment the only mechanical watch i own is a Seiko SNK805, in past i had an Orien Mako but i sold it because i was tired of the "diver look".
As you can see i'm on the lower end side of horology :nixon:
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Horology is a fascinating world, at the moment the only mechanical watch i own is a Seiko SNK805, in past i had an Orien Mako but i sold it because i was tired of the "diver look".
As you can see i'm on the lower end side of horology :nixon:
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A lot of Seiko fans here! There is one Seiko automatic that I really want:

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A lot of Seiko fans here! There is one Seiko automatic that I really want:

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yes, they're like the Honda of Watches :headbang:
I'd like to buy the Seiko Sarb033 before the prices increase again.
 

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I love them but they're so expensive, I only have a seiko alpinist that I wear often
 

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Man... I’ve got nothing to add of coolness value and am still way in the cheap/fashionable stage... but I do really like watches and would have a pile of them if I had the coin.

I’d pretty much exclusively had digital watches as a daily up until 3-4 years ago when my old lady got me one of the Seiko Solars w/a 24 hour face for military time. It’s nothing fancy but I sure have enjoyed it and have mentioned a fancy watch as a retirement present.
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Another cheapo watch (my only other analog) is a Vostok I’ve had a number of years. It’s sort of an underway timepiece... for the novelty and irony of taking a Russian watch featuring one of their boats underway on a US boat.
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I love seeing the (for real) cool watches and am envious. Makes me dream a little about getting a “real” watch. Thanks for sharing.
 


 


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