SOTC(state of the collection) thread.

A look at my current SOTC, I currently have 14 in the box which tbh is a few too many 🤣

I did have a 1 in- 1 out rule l, that my Mrs is certain is still in place.

Still... What she doesn't know won't hurt me😉

A list of what's in the pic, not quite in order.

Sinn U2-SDR

Sinn 104 st SA w

Sinn 103 Destro

Sinn U2W

Citizen Promaster

Omega 2535.80 GMT

Blancpain 2185f

Monro Studio Green

Monro Studio Red (1 of 3)

Tudor BlackBay Red

Accutron Astronaut

Self Build GMT (6460 mvmt)

Sólás Starlight

IWC 3878-02

I'd put the Blancpain ahead of it, and as an actual tool/dive watch, I'd put the Sinn U2's ahead of it, too. The Seamaster is a better-looking watch than the Sinn, and being slimmer its a more comfortable wear, but it's let down by the slippiness of the bezel when in actual diving use. Its nigh on impossible to grip and turn easily.
I have zero ambition for a Rolex, now I of course wouldn't say no to one at retail or below ;) but I just don't have the grá for one at all.
All that said, if I was to start selling? It'd be the Blancpain, the IWC and the Tudor competing for 1st for the chop.

Christ they should be the last three you sell.

I struggle to see how you can look at that box and then conclude there the ones to make room.

yep 100 percent, that iwc is lovely

I still don’t see the point in selling the best to raise cash unless a particularly time sensitive purchase appeared and even then.

I agree, I'm not selling anything currently (nor need to) but if I was? It would be as a cash raising exercise. I'd meant my example in that regard.

Edit...

Having read back over the garbled logic in my last couple of posts? Its clear to see that being back on pain meds isn't doing my prose any favours 🤦‍♀️

It does totally read as if I would be selling the best to spin into a new watch rather than curating the collection and slimming down to add better. I need to to think quicker and type slower.

If you're auld 😁 I'm only a spring chicken yet.

The Blancpain is lovely but looks about a 38mm? I think @banie01 is a big lad like 6'3 or something? Maybe a bit small.

I guess. He wore your ladies' VC 😂

(If I'm honest I was very tempted to buy it myself at the time, gorgeous watch)

It wears bigger on the wrist, the lack of a techy bezel means that it's got a really great dial to size ratio and the dial really does pop on it, in the flesh IMO. Its incredibly legible, and very comfortable wear.

I'm going to join a 12 step group for the auld Kickstarter addiction 😉 You'll be proud of me for not signing up for any KS in 6 months 🤣

It’s nearly a year since I posted my last SOTC so thought I would update with the current selection A good bit of a change when compared to last years.I always say I don’t sell my watches but looking back here it seems I do , quite a few have been moved on including my Ming this weekend .

The Tudor collection is down from 6 to 2 and the Seiko collection has been heavily reduced with a few given to friends and the main ones I want sitting in the box below. A few more of the seikos going for sale soon enough .

So following the sale of my Ming , Seamaster and BB pro over the last few months , the watch fund is ready to splurge but I just can’t decide on anything .With the way the watch market is at the moment I want to be sure I really want the watch before buying as too easy to lose money on watches now .

A Royal Oak offshore is likely on the horizon and I still have a longing for a Pepsi .That said every time I put on the sub I ask myself why bother with anything else so who knows what if anything is next.

I agree - Also seems better value in the AP .All the money is going to the watch instead of half of it paying for hype.

Yes albeit a brief try on. Wore similar to my Panerai . What model did you have ?

Sept 2020 I had both of these, VC was a lot more wearable!

Both class. And as off shores go that’s one of the nicest I have seen.

But That VC deep stream (or was it dark stream) is a level above. One I missed.

of the offshore? i must check the exact ref, ill revert!

the vc was class to be fair.

This was the ref (15710ST.OO.A002CA.01)

Yeah 42mm, just felt a bit unwieldy or maybe i was too worried about the bezel! wasnt the dream watch i expected it to be!

The pepsi is a disappointing watch from my experience. AP much better watch. A nice Royal Oak, VC also pure class….VC and AP are just made waaayyyy better than a Rolex, the metalwork is much more intricate and exacting. Offshore not to my taste but they can be nice in certain specs. Roaloaks wear big so a 39mm is more appropriate in AP than the bigger one depending on the size of you?

Yes it does , that must have only listed today

mine was unusual in that the gent I bought it from had sourced a bracelet, it came originally with rubber and gator (I had all 3 but changing straps on those is a faff 😂)

Not quite a VC, but I tried sourcing a bracelet for the Blancpain a while back and hit similar price shock, albeit from the seller.

Had a WTB up over on TZUK, had a guy respond initially offered the bracelet for 500, them he checked resale prices and realised that he was massively underpricing. TBF, he was right but the 2k it went to was more than I was willing to spend.

It's advice that Fitz & you (& others) hammered home when I started buying, "if there's a bracelet version, but that!" It's always going to cheaper than buying one later.

What year is the Omega? They're very simple but very nice.

My effort to downsize from 12 watches is clearly going swimmingly 😉

Now despite 1st appearances, I have parlayed the Sinn 104 into the CW65 GMT and 2 of the watches aren't really mine. What's worse is that I also still own my Black bay, not in the pic, which is currently on loan.

The Santos is my son's and so is the vintage Omega, albeit not until his birthday in March.

This whole "too many watches" lark, it's a hard illness to overcome 👀😂

The joys of inheritance 😉 he did ok with that one. He has a small Tank too, that's tiny and properly "lady" sized. He has that one with him in Vienna so I get to test drive the Santos. It is a lovely watch but it is an absolute scratch magnet on the bezel.