Your Best Hobbies (other than Audio)

For the past few months, I do nothing but study Audio stuff online. Before this nutty endeavor, I was an aspiring wannabe writer, philosophyer, roadbiker, and avid reader.

Collecting very rare watches and time pieces.

Sinclair- You mean like a Swatch??? roflmao!! If you haven't checked it out yet there are a few of us who are into watches here as well, search for a thread called "What time do you wear"

~Tim

Tireguy, you were kidding when you said Swatch.. LOLOL.

No , I collect Patek Philippe watches. Perpetual calendar, complicated, annual calendar, and moon phase Patek's.

I also collect Audemars Piguet complicated automatics, IWC, vintage Rolex and Omega watches too.

My two favorite watches that I wear is the Patek 3970 Perpetual Chronograph (list price was $78K) but will continue to increase in value. And the Omega Chronograph automatic professional diver. (list price is about $3K).

Watch collecting can get sicker in dollars & sense than Hi-End Audio. The key is to buy the expensive watch as an investment and you can do very well for yourself.

Sinclair-I hear you, I have a few though I have down sized a bit. I am dreaming of the Ulysse Nardin(the name slips my mind) it isn't on there website its around 65k and I think its worth it, like you said in that range things only go up in value. I currently wear a Cartier Pasha C and enjoy it more then anything else I have had(Rolex, Tag, Bvlgari-big mistake!) Sounds as though you have impecable taste in watches, I like most all Pateks, Piguet. I want a JLC reverso duo very bad but need a new play watch first(enter Fortis, Cosmonaut-a very cool simple watch if your not familar with them) too many toys not enough money or time!! Do a search and just use the word "time" and the watch thread here will show it face(heh-heh), its name is "what time do you wear" a few others here are into nice watches.

~Tim