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I’ve been obsessed with watches for nearly 15 years and I think it’s fair to say that my tastes have evolved both uniquely and similarly to other collectors.
On one hand my tastes are now truly mine, but on the other hand that is the result of the journey all long-time watch lovers take, from believing “popular” views to be the unmovable truth, to ignoring those views eventually and going their own way.
It should be obvious that the less you care about what others think of your watches, the more choices you have available to you, and the more fun you can have in the hobby, but it takes time to reach that point, and consequently certain views stubbornly persist.
“The Tudor Black Bay 41 is too thick”.
“Everything TAG Heuer makes is trash”.
There are plenty of others, but the one I want to focus on again today is that “fashion watches” are not “real” watches.
I say that I’m focusing on this topic “again” because I’ve been a long-time fan of watches from brands that have traditionally excelled in other areas, and in this article I’d like to present to you specific examples of the models that I would thereotically (but sincerely) be open to buying.
Regular readers of this site or listeners of The Real Time Show will know that over the last year I’ve pared my collection down quite a bit and I can confirm that I am still very happy with my curated handful of watches, but you never know…
These models offer such unique attributes, sometimes at such killer values, that at least one of them just may end up in my collection one day (spoiler: one of them already has!). If you are far enough along in your watch journey to ignore the “fashion watches = trash” trope, you may find yourself wanting to add at least one to your own collection as well.
In no particular order, let’s take a look at some truly horological and, yes, fashionable, watches.
