/fa/ - Fashion

>>16004936
I dunno, around 20 countries? I don't have goals. The reasoning behind what, the travel, or the watches? They're different. The travel? It's fun, broadening, mysterious, full of kismet, chance encounters, it blows my mind, satisfies my wanderlust. It makes life worth living. The watches? They're beautiful baubles and trinkets, they serve a function, telling the time, but they're also gorgeous to look at, finely honed and designed little perfect objects that bring me pleasure. They're separate and distinct from experiences I pay for, but they add to those experiences by their presence. Not by much, mind you, but all those stories accumulate in them, if they're special enough. I feel like I've started only collecting grails in the past couple years, and I'm only getting watches now that I couldn't have dreamed of wearing when I first started in the hobby nearly ten years ago. It's a satisfying feeling, having and using a thing that was totally inaccessible to me not so long ago. It's a tangible reminder that I've come a long way in not that long of a time, that if I could manage to acquire something like this... there's not much that I couldn't manage to do. I don't give a fuck what others think of them. If they recognize one of the watches or pay me a compliment, that's a lovely bonus and I'll be predisposed toward that person, but watches are very much an internally pleasurable thing. I'm not chasing status in others eyes, but in my own.