i've worn rolex's since the mid '60's, mostly gmt's for 40 year aviation career.

Why should we change your mind?

It's your watch(s), wear it with whatever you want.

One can pull off a simple Timex with a suit and tie. If it works for you, and you're comfortable with it, why not do it?

I'm not going to wear an IWC/Jaeger-LeCoultre/ Audemars Piguet to my work (hell, I can't afford them with what I do for a living), because I beat up stuff to much.
If I was going to a "Suit & Tie" job in an Office somewhere, maybe.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
If that’s a Waltham branded Blancpain, very cool.

Not even close !! LOL!

Just ordered this automatic Citizen Tsuyosa NJ0151-88M for $215.55 (after "MOTS" coupon code) from Ormoda. 40mm integrated steel band, Miyota 8210 automatic movement, sapphire crystal. Why? Just because I thought the watch was beautiful and affordable.

I have always worn watches when I was 10 I started wearing dive watches and I haven’t stopped and I’m 47 now. I wore an Omega Seamaster for last 16 or so years and I bet I have only had 5-8 comments on it.

I wear watches for me but I don’t mind when folks make comments on my watches. I’ve already had a good conversation about my new sub just this past Wednesday. I love talking about different watches but atm I’m a dive watch wearer only. Maybe a Speedmaster one day

As an Apollo junkie from childhood I pined away for an Omega Speedmaster Pro someday. I remember watching the Apollo 11 Eagle landing, and being glued to the TV as a nine-year-old praying for the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew. When I went down the Rab.....er...did a deep dive on the history of the Speedmaster in the Apollo program I knew I wanted one. Not for show but the fact that it's a cool tool watch. I've had mine for 13 years and no one has ever commented on it. I get way more mentions on the cheap G-Shock DW-6600 I wear.

Only watch I recall receiving a comment about was from a doctor who spotted and identified my Sinn 156 Military. Turned out his hobby was making parts for detailed horological complications of his own design.

I have several watches and I bought them because they interest me and I needed to wear a watch. Now, they sit in a drawer and I haven't worn one in years.

When I was young, in love, and in Switzerland, I bought a Tissot--I think a PR 516. They were being advertised in Der Spiegel IIRC, as a race driver's watch. Stainless non-elastic band with "lightening holes" like the foot pedals of sports cars of the day.
It sits in a drawer and has for probably 40 years.
Should I have it refurbished? Mechanical or quartz movement?
I'm not really a collector and don't want to start, but this is a nice memento of a particularly magical time of my life. My now-wife of 54 years and I had gotten engaged in the old castle in Heidelberg after I had just driven across the Sahara and then flown to Germany to see her again after two years absence.
We took off for a weekend (innocent one, that was us) in Switzerland; rode the train up to the Stanserhorn and hiked down the mountain.

Early in our marriage my wife and I gave each other Citizen Eco Drive watches. My wife doesn't wear hers much anymore and goes with a fitness watch, I still wear my Citizen over 15yrs later. I've had it die twice for lack of light/use and after a days charge it started right back. I had the glass replaced once when our cat knocked it off the windowsill while I recharged it from one of those incidents. It worked fine for me as a trial lawyer and never impacted what I could charge as a billable rate.

A waitress at Twin Peaks once commented about my Citizen, but I think she was trained to do that when she looks at a left hand and sees a wedding ring.

I've dumped far more into guns that sit in a safe and don't see light for months at a time but somehow have never gotten into wearing something expensive ($1,000+) that I would get far more use out of than one of the guns.

Sometime after my dad passed away I took his Bulova Accutron to a watch guy who got it running. My mom gave it to him for Christmas 1981 as it is inscribed on the back. I had them put a leather band on it as the metal one was broken and nothing else really worked. I would wear it to church every Sunday for a couple years until its battery died. It was erratically reliable after sitting idle for decades, but it was kinda neat to wear.