@[email protected] made a good point in my last post. I had some job/consulting interviews today and thought the Rolex might send a signal that I was too expensive… to the 1% of people who would look at someone’s watch over Zoom, identify it, and then judge them. So I went with something that signals “refined and luxe, but also good value for money.”

But wearing it made me remember what an awesome watch the Spirit 37 is. Reallyzen, if you’re reading this, you are right. I have to keep this one. The Hydroconquest 39 bico will go though. It feels like wearing a house at this point.

And for everyone else, the fisheye macro makes it seem like this watch is way too big for me. But it’s really not, I swear!

I was a big lurker on r/watches before ditching Reddit for Lemmy, so this is my attempt to add some content here!

The Yacht-Master has been my grail watch forever, and one I thought I would never buy. Mainly because I could never imagine being in a spot where I could drop that kind of money on one watch. But somehow things suddenly lined up last week and I went for it. This is the 35mm version, the 168622, and I think it’s beautiful, comfortable, and functional. I’m a big bezel user for timing things on land, and bi-directional is so much better than uni-directional. There’s also an element of “I made it” that, right or wrong, I’ve always associated exclusively with the Rolex brand. Maybe it’s just because I’ve pined after this particular model for so long that it’s taken on that significance.

I’m still in the honeymoon phase but I’m looking at my other watches and thinking that they all represented some facet of the YM that I was trying to capture. I don’t think I need those other w