/fa/ - Fashion

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>Almost without exception vintage collectors seem to fall into these two camps; NOS collectors who value the pristine, museum showpiece representing what would have initially left the factory, and the Wabi collector who sees beauty in the discoloration, scars, and visible usefulness it provided.

>In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi Sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". In short, the idea of Wabi Sabi is the acceptance and appreciation that everything exists impermanently. People age, watches age, existence and life is fleeting.

>Western culture seems to struggle with impermanence; valuing imperviousness and seeking that which will appear unaffected by time, forever new, indestructible. One sees this in the application of surface hardening techniques, ceramics, and liquid metal in watchmaking even though all of these solutions are imperfect or vulnerable in their own way. Pursuing this ideal requires not only constant effort, but ignores the reality of all things being truly temporary. Applied in the extreme, you’re left being owned by your things, versus owning them.