I have to say, throughout much of your writing, that CWC runs as a single gilded thread. It embodies your ethos to a tee: jaunty Anglo adventure, ready to splash at any moment, not flashy, but confident and full of spirit.
All through elementary school, high school and college I always tried to find that 'one watch'. Thought maybe my next purchase could be the watch I wear for the next thirty years. And then I realized... people like us can never be 'one watch' guys. We just can't. I have about 50 watches in a drawer and I can blindly reach in and grab a handful and tell you a story about something I did in each one. Sure we can downsize our collections, but we'll always have a quiver of watches and make lasting memories while wearing each.
Awesome write-up as usual. Always happy to see a Swimpruf email in the inbox.
Great piece, Jason. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I love the look of the Omega (though not the HeV). My dopp kit always has my solar atomic G-Shock for backup. Not so stylish as your choices, but never fails.
Great read. Thanks. Perhaps you’re getting closer to that elusive one-watch collection with the Omega. Or at least as close as you could reasonably get. Without figuring out what to do with the Sub and the T.Graph.
I love it! Downsizing my possessions is a theme of my life right now, but seemingly out of reach as I upsize my family from three to four members, which almost by necessity comes with a bigger car, new furniture and tons of additional stuff. At least I have my watch „collection“ to an almost perfect three ranging from dress to tool.
I have just come back to the UK from a three month stint in Honduras having had similar pretensions of spending the time as a one-watch person. In the end I took three watches: my ever faithful SPB151, a Seiko Arnie and a G-Shock DW6900. As it was I did end up wearing the SPB151 for the vast majority of the time, with my other wrist carrying my Garmin dive computer. Trips like these are great for exposing the astonishing luxury we have in even being able to choose between watches, let alone own several. While I missed a couple of the ones I'd left back home, I returned to the UK and have since successfully gutted my collection in the knowledge that I can do with only a couple of watches in the collection. I'm off to your own native Great Lakes in a few weeks for six months of working as a dive instructor and I might well end up taking only my Garmin and the Willard.
Great read. Hope you compile these into a book someday. BTW, you still plan on giving away that Seiko? I’ll buy it from you.
Excellent.
I have to say, throughout much of your writing, that CWC runs as a single gilded thread. It embodies your ethos to a tee: jaunty Anglo adventure, ready to splash at any moment, not flashy, but confident and full of spirit.
All through elementary school, high school and college I always tried to find that 'one watch'. Thought maybe my next purchase could be the watch I wear for the next thirty years. And then I realized... people like us can never be 'one watch' guys. We just can't. I have about 50 watches in a drawer and I can blindly reach in and grab a handful and tell you a story about something I did in each one. Sure we can downsize our collections, but we'll always have a quiver of watches and make lasting memories while wearing each.
Awesome write-up as usual. Always happy to see a Swimpruf email in the inbox.
Every time I read one of your articles, it makes me want to run out and pick up whatever watch you've written about.
This particular article is going to be costly.
Superb, as always.
Your input on watch bands was insightful. One isn't enough. Dad
Great piece, Jason. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I love the look of the Omega (though not the HeV). My dopp kit always has my solar atomic G-Shock for backup. Not so stylish as your choices, but never fails.
Great read. Thanks. Perhaps you’re getting closer to that elusive one-watch collection with the Omega. Or at least as close as you could reasonably get. Without figuring out what to do with the Sub and the T.Graph.
Brilliant! Well said, Jason
I love it! Downsizing my possessions is a theme of my life right now, but seemingly out of reach as I upsize my family from three to four members, which almost by necessity comes with a bigger car, new furniture and tons of additional stuff. At least I have my watch „collection“ to an almost perfect three ranging from dress to tool.
Congrats on the new addition, Ben.
I have just come back to the UK from a three month stint in Honduras having had similar pretensions of spending the time as a one-watch person. In the end I took three watches: my ever faithful SPB151, a Seiko Arnie and a G-Shock DW6900. As it was I did end up wearing the SPB151 for the vast majority of the time, with my other wrist carrying my Garmin dive computer. Trips like these are great for exposing the astonishing luxury we have in even being able to choose between watches, let alone own several. While I missed a couple of the ones I'd left back home, I returned to the UK and have since successfully gutted my collection in the knowledge that I can do with only a couple of watches in the collection. I'm off to your own native Great Lakes in a few weeks for six months of working as a dive instructor and I might well end up taking only my Garmin and the Willard.