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Watches have a high addictive potential. If you ask yourself, if you have an addiction to watches, here are the warning signals:
Level 1: starter drugs
- A friend shows you his collection of watches.
- You look at watch ads or start reading watch magazines.
- You buy an imitation of an expansive watch during your vacation or via internet and ask yourself, who is dumb enough to spend so much money on the real one ?
Level 2: perceptional difficulties
- You desire to own more watches than your friend.
- You surf the same web sites as this person and look permanently for new watch dealers.
- The list of watches, you want to buy is extended faster than you can finance it.
- You often complain to your wife, that you do not have anything to wear with a certain outfit and mean your watches.
- The first thing you notice in a rival is the bulge at the sleeve.
- The same phenomenon happens with actors in the movies.
- You would never buy an imitation of an expansive watch and you can detect imitations from far away.
- You have a subscription to a watch magazine.
- You join your wife window shopping but only because jewelers also have display windows.
- You have just bought your first collection watch box, but you can't fill it up yet.
Level 3: let go off all hope
- You cannot remember the name of the friend with the collection.
- You seriously consider canceling your winter, spring and summer holidays in favor of a Patek.
- You try to interest your wife in mechanic time pieces only to expand your collection with ladies watches.
- You buy your first watch winder, because you need it for a perpetual calendar watch.
- You are running a web site about watches (like this one here !)
- You don't talk to people wearing Swatch anymore.
- You learn how to dive, fly, play golf, climb mountains etc just because your watch can already do these things.
- You discover that collecting watchstraps is a perfect hobby for in between.
- You have enough tools to perform a revision yourself.
- Your wife has crying fits when your birthday draws near and she knows exactly what you wish for.
- You spend your new year's eve in front of your perpetual calendar.
- You seriously consider buying an unknown watch brand to develop the company or you look for a job in the watch-making industry.
- You own a semi-professional photo studio for macro photography, but you haven't taken a picture of your relatives in months.
Level 4: the end
- You find your "exit watch" and sell all your other ones. But maybe this day will never come...
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