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Everyone has a different story of how it all started. No matter who it is, all watch lovers started on this delightfully addictive hobby we call horology at some point – young or old, high-end or budget, modern or vintage. For some of us, it started with our dads handing us our first mechanical (or quartz) watches. For others, perhaps a friend introduced it to them and planted the seeds of appreciation. For me, I simply picked it up out of curiosity. Here’s my story on how I started on this journey of horology.
My dream watch, the magnificent Lange Zeitwerk Decimal Strike. Won’t be forgetting this anytime soon.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it was that I got curious about watches. It certainly wasn’t when I got my first watches back in primary school, the various digital Casios or even the random, brand-less watch that sold for $ 10 at night markets. That was in the early 2000s, and cell phones were a luxury for a school-going kid. I actually relied on my watch to tell the time. Ironically, it was later than that, when cell phones were commonplace enough for a watch to lose its basic purpose, its raison d’être. It was in my tweens when I first noticed the ads for Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Patek Phillipe plastered on the front page of newspapers with surprising regularity. Surprising because one had to wonder, what was the purpose of a watch in that day and age? How were they, mechanical or quartz, still relevant in the digital era? And what was it about watches that kept them timeless (pun intended)? At the time, I had no answer to these questions. I didn’t know of anyone who might be knowledgeable on the art of horology either, so these questions stayed unanswered.
Through the next 6 years, those questions stayed out of sight and out of mind as I went through army and university. In my final year of university, I noticed a friend posting about his modified Seiko SKX007 on Instagram. This reignited the questions that had been quietly smoldering in a corner of my mind, and I was determined to find the answers to them this time.
It’s a Seiko! But which one?
As with any question in the digital era, one has a good chance of finding the answer online. I turned to online blogs looking for beginner guides to watches, but merely found a summary of pointers on indicators of quality across watches at different price points (e.g. Under $ 1000, $ 1000-10000, above $ 10000), but no mention of what gave a watch, any watch for that matter, its appeal. The ever-so-descriptive terms described watches in loving detail, but I could hardly relate to them, having never held a mechanical watch in my hand.
What I did learn from trawling through the blogs, though, were the general categories that watches fell into, such as complicated versus non-complicated watches, divers, chronographs, dress watches etc. I also found myself developing a sense of appreciation for […]
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