Watch Addiction Warning Signs

Fine timepieces have highly addictive potential. If you ask yourself, "Do I have an addiction to watches?", here are the warning signs and stages of addiction: 

Level 1: Gateway Drugs

• A friend shows you his collection of watches, you go home to gaze at Home Shopping Network.
• You begin to notice all watch ads and start reading fashion magazines.
• You buy an imitation of a high-end timepiece during your vacation or on eBay and chuckle to yourself, "Who is dumb enough to spend that much money on the real one?"

• You desire to own more watches than your friend.
• You surf the same web sites as this person and look permanently for new luxury timepiece dealers.
• The list you want to buy extends faster than you can finance it.
• You often complain to your wife that you do not have anything to wear with a certain outfit and you really only mean on your wrist.
• The first thing you notice in a rival is the bulge at his sleeve.
• The same phenomenon happens with actors in the movies.
• You would never buy an imitation of a fine timepiece and you can detect imitations from far away.
• You have a subscription to a watch magazine.
• You join your wife window shopping, but only because jewelers also have timepiece display windows.
• You have just bought your first collection box, but you can't fill it up yet.

• You cannot remember the name of the friend with the collection.
• You seriously consider canceling your Winter, Spring and Summer holidays in favor of a new Ulysse Nardin or vintage Glashutte Original.
• You try to interest your wife in chronograph timepieces only to expand your collection now with ladies' editions.
• You buy your first watch winder, because! You need it for a perpetual calendar watch.
• You are running a web site blog about watches
• You don't talk to people wearing Swatch anymore. (OMG!)
• You learn how to dive, fly, play golf, climb mountains, etc. just because your watch can already do these things.
• You discover that collecting straps is a perfect hobby for in-between.
• You have enough tools to perform a revision yourself.
• Your wife has crying fits when your birthday draws near.
• You spend New Year's Eve in front of your perpetual calendar.
• You seriously consider buying an unknown brand to develop the company and look after employment listings in the watch-making industry.
• You own a semi-professional photo studio for macro photography, but you haven't taken a picture of your relatives in months.

• You find your "exit timepiece" and sell all your other ones. But maybe this day will never come...