My brother sent me a picture from a former work colleague (22 yr old lawyer making max $50k US p/a). The kid is very well off, family owns/owned a major retailer and he inherited quite a bit of money.
My brother showed me a pic of his collection, given he knows I’m into watches. The kid has pretty much bought every hype watch going:
Patek Nautilus 5711 AP Royal Oak White face ceramic Daytona Batman Sub date Hulk Datejust JLC MUT moon IWC Portuguese Panerai Omega Aquaterra Omega Seamaster 300m.
Guessing it would cost you $250k (us) to purchase.
These are all, within reason, the ‘hot’ desirable watches to own. If you put together a list of the top ten most sought after, he’d have the majority them.
It says a lot about his collection. I feel the guy is collecting to impress others and it appears passionless.
I was thinking, if he had true interest and spent the money he did spend, it wouldn’t be just hype.
The question is, $250k (us) budget… what would you buy?
I dont think this is something that could be planned ahead of time. Also it seems it would kind of loose its charm if you could just buy anyone you want all the time.
Like i am currently considering my next watch (arent we all). But i am kind of in the early stage, so there are still multiple ways it could go and multiple candidates for each.
Either the kinda dressy but still capable way (tudor 1926, longines spirit, nomos club campus…) or maybe the yet-another-sporty-one way (longines spirit zulu time, certina titanium diver, tudor black bay GMT, tudor ranger…) or the now-i-really-want-something-weird-and-unique way (longines legend diver, Oris big crown pointer date bronze, rado true square skeleton, something from cuerbos y sobrino…).
But with this kind of budget i could just literally buy all of them, plus all the grails in the 10-20k range i have been dreaming of but wouldnt otherwise get anytime soon.
And that would pretty much kill the joy of figuring out this choice. So you are almost forced to escalate to crazy expensive stuff. However i would like to not just go the most hyped way with it. But the only watch i know that i would want and is expensive enough to not just be able to buy 20 is the H. Moser Endeaviur perpetual calendar. But even that is just like 80k i think.
Typically takes me years to decide my next watch, including months of hovering over the buy now button.