Downsizing My Watch Collection

This article is a transcript of a video that you can watch by clicking the thumbnail below. Hence, certain statements may not make sense in this text form, and watching the video instead is recommended.

Intro

So as we saw recently, my watch collection is pretty wide, at least for someone like me who has never paid attention to wristwatches before, let alone thinking of collecting them. Having said that, I think now it's time to downsize, and I’ll talk about the why and how in just a minute.

Why Downsize?

Usually, I love collecting all kinds of stuff I like and appreciate, and am obviously able to afford. But on the other hand, there are several reasons I limit myself. Let’s take the example of my ThinkPads.

1. I may not need or be able to use all of the ThinkPads I have in my collection, and that would be a waste of resources, mostly time and money.
2. Someone else could be using it to get things done, instead of those sitting on a desk collecting dust, though I clean every single one of them inside out at regular intervals.
3. When I add a ThinkPad to my collection, I take great care of it, no matter how capable or slow, expensive or cheap, or whether it is in mint condition or badly beaten up. This adds to my recurring tasks, taking away valuable time that I could be spending elsewhere.
4. These things aren’t cheap, at least sometimes, and all that money could be spent on things that I need, instead of on something I just want to have next to me.
5. Lastly, I’d hate to collect these marvels of technology and eventually pass away leaving them to be either thrown away or recycled after I’m gone instead of passing them on to people who’d be able to appreciate them, at least as much as I do. Given the state of the world right now, you never know when we’d be under attack by who knows whom or what?

And, there could be more reasons, and all these also apply to my other priced possessions, and hence the wristwatches.

Re-Rating in Detail to Make Space

Now, all of the watches in my collection were my choice. We’ve seen recently how I handpicked them, letting most others go, so trimming my favorites down could have been very challenging. I re-rated the watches in my collection to mathematically prove to myself which are the ones that I’d be using the most, given my preferences, and on the other hand which ones I’d be less sad letting go.

So I arranged all of my watches in columns and gave them a score between 0 and 5 across sixteen categories. These categories were arranged in descending order of what matters to me the most, just as we saw in the last video, and after applying weights to the scores accordingly, I could get a final score for each of them.

Not to my surprise, the GW-M850 scored the most, while the Casio Forester was the lowest. As it wasn’t going according to how I wanted it to go, I decided to drop these three, in order to make space for a Master of G watch.

Conclusion

So that dropped my collection down to only five watches, and I should be good to add something like a Riseman, Mudman, or Rangeman to the collection.