#NSOW
Im always in two minds over these SOTC videos, more than anything I'm growing more and more uncomfortable with the emphasis on ownership as an essential part of the watch hobby. OTOH, I guess it can be helpful for people that watch my videos to have a sense of what I collect and where I put my money when shooting off my mouth. You'll note, its a lot of Breitling, quite a few germans like Sinn, Muhle Glashutte, Dornbluth and Sohn, a few Jaeger-LeCoultre, a whole box of Seiko and Alpina but zero Rolex, Omega or Cartier.
So here it is. Now this is nothing more than a listing of whats in the collection, I barely talk about the watches at all. If you'd like to know more, ask a question.
Finally, if you go back and look at some older SOTCs Ive done you'll notice I left out all my "sentimental' watches. In short, those are mine not yours and they don't tell you anything about me as a collector so Im not discussing them publicly at the moment.
For your awareness some things about me and the channel.
I'm an engineer who's into human behavior, loves the ideas behind art and sees watches as a mix of science, craft, art, business, history, technology, philosophy, and psychology. As a result, my videos cover all that ground. (Oh, and I overthink everything).
In my opinion a $15 Casio or a $50 G-Shock are probably the only real tool watches and pretty much everything else is jewelry. So as we are talking about jewelry I think style is substance and I tend to believe history, brand, style, design, execution, and aesthetics are more important than specs. A dull design with a good movement is a dull watch, and an exciting design with an average movement is an exciting watch.
To be clear, I hate the expression "it's just a watch". If you got this far, watches matter to you and represent a bridge between us - dismissing them as unimportant seems wrong and disrespectful. That doesn't mean we can't and don't have fun, it just means we should not be totally mindless of others.
I'm a watch collector and curator - I like my collections to have a theme. My collection has several themes:
1. Vintage Alpina watches
2. Travel watches (GMT. UTC, world timers, home times, dual times)
3. Seiko Prospex dive watches
4. Breitling chronographs
5. Stuff I just really like.
I don't do wrist checks so if you want to see what I'm wearing, my collection, and other random bits of my life check out my Instagram:
@not.so.obvious.watches / not.so.obvious.watches
You can email me at not.so.obvious.watches@gmail.com
virtually all the music you'll hear on my channel I get from BenSound - www.bensound.com/
also, my stock images and videos tend to come from either snappa (snappa.com/app) or pexels (www.pexels.com/)
6 авг 2024
