Watches

Its one of those things that men have nowadays...
Well, I got started on watches after stumbling upon a local website selling new and pre-owned ones. Before that, a watch for me is just a time piece to keep time, and occasionally as a dress accessories.
My watches were pretty ordinary with brands such as Tissot, and Swatch. Yup, that's pretty cool already to my standard as each of them cost around a grand plus.
Well, I would love to own a piece of Omega or perhaps an Oris Meistemaster but it is exorbitantly priced in the range of RM8k and RM5K respectively. For me, these pieces are the holy grail of watches. Until I visited the website.
It opens up entirely my perspective of watches. For once, I realised that I could now own an Omega or Oris with just a mere fraction of the original retailing price. Now, my range of wanted watches suddenly expanded. From Azimuth to Zenith, A to Z.
More so when I later stumbled on to Malaysia watch forum, and Singapore's watch exchange forum.
Although the opportunities are more pronounced now, I would need to be careful and be very selective of my choice of watch to get.


I now know such thing such as automatic and quartz. I know what is jewels in the watch. I now know what's a movement and who manufactures them. So now, I have learned to appreciate watches and the value of it.
Now my view of an Omega has change. It is no longer my no.1 desire to own wrist watch. And why is that? Simple. I go for originality. Now, don't get me wrong. The genuine Omega is genuine Omega, but its movement is not. Its mechanism are bought from world renowed movements makers from Swiss such as ETA, and Unitas.
These movement makers provides a wide range of mechanism to suits its customers. They could be upgraded and refined by the customers themselves to create some uniques in their own brands.
So, an Omega that cost probably RM7,000 may have the same movement as to an Edox that probably cost RM5,000 in retails.
So now, if I were to plonked in a couple of grands or more, I would read up the history of the watches, and identify its movement whether the pieces are made in-house or it is a mass produced movement that are refined by the brand owner.
Of course, in-house made movement watches would generally cost more, but then, the values' there.
The genuine  of it is there.

Now I owned some pretty nice and reputable watches..and I am finding more wrist time for them. As I typed away this post, I have with me each watch on both hands...hahaha automatics..you need to move them ..

So, if you can't afford to own one now, then save up for one.