At some point the moment arrives when such a watch becomes more than just an instrument for reading the time of day. Suddenly the watch feels differently on the wrist, and you just love to look at it again and again even though you don’t want to know what time it is. It might just as well not be running.
Once this watch has been liberated from the mundane job of just displaying the time, then it is only a small step before you really start thinking about your own (little) watch collection.
 
Getting Started
The basis of a watch collection is not what you might think it is: the first watch with the qualities listed above, but rather the watch that comes after that one. The first watch might have been an accidental purchase; the second certainly wasn’t. You purposely searched out the second watch—according to criteria that were influenced by the first watch, whether consciously or subconsciously. One thought that hits close to home is the search for a watch to complete something you already have at home that for some reason you just like. This can be a dial or case variation, a similar model by a different brand, a different model of the same brand, or the complete opposite of your "first love"—to wear, for example, the other half of the time or to represent the other side of you.