Any fellow watch obsessives here?
They have fascinated me since I was a child and, back when Rolex was rather cheaper than it is now (mid 90's) I had 3 in succession that cost $4500 each rather than the $15,000+ that they cost today. Foolishly I sold or traded them rather than hanging onto them. I have mt father's gold Omega Constellation from around 1968, in fine working order and mint appearance after a complete overhaul at Omega in Switzerland when I inherited it, probably the first proper service it ever had knowing my father! I also have a Breitling HAQ (High Accuracy Quartz) which has a thermocompansated quarts (COSC certified) accurate to about 15 seconds per year with no outside timekeeping assistance (such as radio or GPS).
My current favourite though is my Grand Seiko Springdrive 'Snowflake'. A genuine masterpiece of watchmaking skill. It also has a slightly Geeky movement in the Spring Drive - perhaps best described as an automatic mechanical watch with a self-powered electromagnetic escapement. This makes the watch extremely accurate for a mechanical watch - mine is around 0.2 seconds per day fast. It also makes it silent, since it has no ticking mechanical escapement, and makes the second hand sweep smoothly because, again, no mechanical escapement.
Any other watch nerds here?