Why Does it Take Very Little to Enter the World of Watches

When I started this watch adventure a few years ago, I didn’t start alone, I started together with a friend, after all, affinities are very common between buddies and when they don’t exist they are created, and the same happened with us in relation to watches, I had been in this for some time and my friend ended up getting in almost by dragging since at a certain point most of our time together was devoted to the subject of watches.

The first real watch I had was “given” by my mother, perhaps the term is not quite “offered” but rather “taken”, after all, it had been subjugated for a long time to a box and I rescue it and bring it back to life, it’s a mechanical vintage flat Omega, bought in the ’70s and that to this day is probably one of the watches I use the most and I like to wear it, discreet, simple, classic and elegant.

A few years passed after my first Omega and I ended up inheriting another watch, this time from my father, and this time an Omega Flighmaster also from the 70s, with the weight of its use mirrored today in its tropical dial, on which I had the opportunity to speak here in another article, which if you want to know more, I leave the link here.

My friend’s path in the world of watches is a little different from mine, but at the same time the same, Nuno, up to a certain point, was never very interested in watches, until I started to torment him with conversations that were always going to be about watches. I really think I ended up winning him due to fatigue and he had to surrender to the facts at some point.

As I mentioned above, despite our different ways in this hobby, they were very similar, conversation leads to conversation, we discovered that Nuno had also inherited two vintage Omegas from his father, although until that time, they still had to be rescued from inside a dark box. One of these two Omegas was a Seamaster with a beautiful blue “spider” dial caused by the time effect, which you want to know more about it you can read here, which was entitled to a passage through the Omega “SPA” whose final bill almost took Nuno crazy, but that’s a story we’ll leave for another article. The second Omega he inherited is a very beautiful Omega Constellation in gold, which it would have given to his father for rendering a certain service and which, after much insistence on my part, he has started to use it with some frequency, as he was afraid of using it for be in gold.

By this time, conversations about watches were a permanent theme in our coexistence, and once again conversation leads to conversation, I had just bought a Seiko, Nuno called me to tell me that he had found an old Seiko 5 from his father and thus rescued more a watch from the memory chest.

After that, we ended up buying a Casio F91W together almost for fun, which took us back to our childhood memories, when having a digital watch was a real treasure for us.

Many other watches followed for both and probably many others will follow over time, this to say that it doesn’t matter how we get into this hobby if, through a friend, a watch we won, a childhood memory, there are countless possibilities. The same applies to brands, Nuno and I were lucky enough to inherit watches that might otherwise have been difficult to obtain initially, and which turned out to be our entry window into this world, but it doesn’t matter if we start with an Omega, Rolex, Seiko, Casio or any other brand, the important thing is to start and enjoy the journey.