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[SOTC] My Modest Collection Five Years Later
Hi all, long-time lurker and all that.
**Edit up front: I mean that the collection started modest, not that it still is**
I have had an appreciation for watches for some time, but I didn't grow up with money or around people with money, so it has taken a while for me to allow myself to buy more than a 50-dollar casio. Anyway, after kicking it all off with a Sangin Neptune in 2021, I caught a dangerous bug that has led to this small cache of watches (and a couple of cheaper models in storage while I'm overseas).
I have recently gotten more serious about curating an effective/useful collection, and have shaped those decisions around my tastes. Still a good couple of watches that I really want to add, but I'm still not quite wealthy enough to go out and secure everything at once (nor would I want to -- I like taking my time with them).
Hope you appreciate the gang; I really am only posting them so that I no longer have to bore my wife to death with watch talk.