+1EP.- wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 1:08 am Definitely not. Your hobby is the collection of parts, and your pleasure is to contemplate its potential to become beatiful watches. If you execute that potential, your entire collection loses its value. And you will have to stock up again. A watch is not built because you have the pieces for it, it is built because you desire a certain watch. Building only because you have the pieces does not make sense.
Should I start building?
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Wise words... high fiveEP.- wrote:Definitely not. Your hobby is the collection of parts, and your pleasure is to contemplate its potential to become beatiful watches. If you execute that potential, your entire collection loses its value. And you will have to stock up again. A watch is not built because you have the pieces for it, it is built because you desire a certain watch. Building only because you have the pieces does not make sense.

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I know, I built a few once, gave away a couple of watches, used a lot of parts and accessories, but I seem to have more now than I had before.....what's going on?EP.- wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 1:08 am Definitely not. Your hobby is the collection of parts, and your pleasure is to contemplate its potential to become beatiful watches. If you execute that potential, your entire collection loses its value. And you will have to stock up again. A watch is not built because you have the pieces for it, it is built because you desire a certain watch. Building only because you have the pieces does not make sense.
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The void is calling, man.Yoda wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 8:44 amI know, I built a few once, gave away a couple of watches, used a lot of parts and accessories, but I seem to have more now than I had before.....what's going on?EP.- wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 1:08 am Definitely not. Your hobby is the collection of parts, and your pleasure is to contemplate its potential to become beatiful watches. If you execute that potential, your entire collection loses its value. And you will have to stock up again. A watch is not built because you have the pieces for it, it is built because you desire a certain watch. Building only because you have the pieces does not make sense.
It's the collector in you

Honestly, I would not worry.
It is so much fun to hunt down parts and then just possess them.
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I really like to just look at them...sick. Hehe!hako wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 12:54 pmThe void is calling, man.Yoda wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 8:44 amI know, I built a few once, gave away a couple of watches, used a lot of parts and accessories, but I seem to have more now than I had before.....what's going on?EP.- wrote: ↑May 9th, 2019, 1:08 am Definitely not. Your hobby is the collection of parts, and your pleasure is to contemplate its potential to become beatiful watches. If you execute that potential, your entire collection loses its value. And you will have to stock up again. A watch is not built because you have the pieces for it, it is built because you desire a certain watch. Building only because you have the pieces does not make sense.
It's the collector in you![]()
Honestly, I would not worry.
It is so much fun to hunt down parts and then just possess them.
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Not sick, I loved it too, just to look at the parts. exspecialy if they in such beauty boxes. I have a esdee 3646 case, never start this one but mostly every day I look at it

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tafari wrote:Not sick, I loved it too, just to look at the parts. exspecialy if they in such beauty boxes. I have a esdee 3646 case, never start this one but mostly every day I look at it




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