A Practical Guide to Watch Collecting

By Alex Lam Yesterday, we waxed poetic about our passion for watches and the drive to collect and curate them.  That article was all about the emotion involved in buying a watch and the relationship one forms with it.  Today, we bring a more practical view to the concept of watch collecting.  After considering the virtuosity, endurance and positioning of a watch for a collection, a few rather prominent questions also need to be examined. Perhaps the most common questions watch guys like myself are often asked include “Why collect timepieces when you can just check the time on your phone?” or “Why spend frankly, impractical amounts of money on an outmoded technology?”  The answer is that it is indeed…