I see my rehab trainer every week to regain some strength after a lengthy hospital stay a number of years ago.
He knows I’ve been collecting for a while now, and always asks “so, how many watches have you got?”.
Until today, I didn’t have an answer for him, because some were in my collection, and som

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State of the collection

My interest has always been in affordable dress watches (preferably Bulova or Timex), which are either vintage, reissues or have a retro vibe, as opposed to diver, field, sport, I’m sure you get the picture. Last night, I went to dinner with a friend wearing a Bulova Robie House.

The young lady who was serving us, complimented the watch and proceeded to ask a few questions about it. She then paused and hesitantly asked if it was expensive. I replied that “expensive” is relative, but…

Thoughts about compliments…

Hello!

After lurking +15 years on WUS, I find it interesting how forum favourite watches appear and then disappear, and are never mentioned again. It’s part of the wave of hype, I believe.

Being it SKX007, Orient Starseeker or Bambino/Mako, Lew&Huey/NTH, Baltic watches(?) perhaps.

Post your ex-forum favourite watch, so we can remember and admire them once more.

-Papi

Thought I’d kick off today’s thread: