When you want to build your collection of timepieces, you need to first check what timepieces you already have, and what timepieces you are missing out (click here to see the types of watches essential in every collection). First thing you should do is have a look at what you already have. What are you missing?
You need to make sure that you don’t buy the same watch material if your collection is small. Sure, you may say ‘any watch added to another one would create a collection, right?’. That argument might be correct once you have a watch from each material. For example, if you started with a full gold watch as your first watch, make your second a steel one and the third any material with a leather strap or a rubber one, but don’t start getting the same material unless you have at least 5-7 watches for the sake of having watches of different characteristics.
You would want to go for things with different complications as well. For example, if your first watch was a time and date watch, make your second a chronograph or a day-date. The world of timepieces is huge so feel free to discover new things and try out different brands instead of sticking to just one.
Once you went deep into the world of watch collecting, and have a big budget, start going for the impressive rare/limited watches. Ones with tourbillons and hour strikers, instead of a normal expensive hand crafted brand with no extra complications other than the time and date.
Many people get watches as gifts, so a collection of watches gets built without the intention for it. What was your first watch? And how did you get it?
