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Bungle-ator wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:24 pm I'd also give them up for Kylie Minogue.
You should be so lucky.

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And Felicity Jones.

Ho-hum. Why do I get the idea I won’t be giving up my watches any time soon?
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When my daughter was born my wife and I had the conversation I suppose all parents have had at some point. What do you think she’ll be when she grows up? After some discussion we concluded that what we wanted for her was to be happy and that was all that really mattered.

She doesn’t need to be rich, famous, have a fantastic high flying career, big house, expensive holidays. Just be happy.

I suppose a lot of things fall out of being happy, can you have poor health or money worries and be truly content? Some people will be but I suspect these would be avoided as a by product of being happy.

So I suppose in the fantasy world all I would ask for is that my daughter is happy throughout her life. Whatever that means she will be, do, be with, etc. it doesn’t really matter. So I’d give my watch collection up for that.
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iain wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:43 pm So I suppose in the fantasy world all I would ask for is that my daughter is happy throughout her life. Whatever that means she will be, do, be with, etc. it doesn’t really matter. So I’d give my watch collection up for that.
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Although my kids are 17 months and 7 months old now… I just might give up all my watches if it meant they would both sleep through the whole night every night from now on :(
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iain wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:43 pm When my daughter was born my wife and I had the conversation I suppose all parents have had at some point. What do you think she’ll be when she grows up? After some discussion we concluded that what we wanted for her was to be happy and that was all that really mattered.

She doesn’t need to be rich, famous, have a fantastic high flying career, big house, expensive holidays. Just be happy.

I suppose a lot of things fall out of being happy, can you have poor health or money worries and be truly content? Some people will be but I suspect these would be avoided as a by product of being happy.

So I suppose in the fantasy world all I would ask for is that my daughter is happy throughout her life. Whatever that means she will be, do, be with, etc. it doesn’t really matter. So I’d give my watch collection up for that.
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I gladly give up my watches to be free of my neurological disorder.
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golfjunky wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:28 pm Absolute job security
Oh I think that's a bit over-rated. I left school and walked into a "job for life, lad" but ultimately got made redundant three times. Each change caused me to pick myself up and do something very different and I ended up, I maintain, a more satisfied, more rounded chap.
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Its a genuine consideration im currently having, to pitch in all my 16 watches in order to overpay (probably by a couple of grand), to get my paws on a Rolex Wimbledon.
When I say it out loud to myself its an absolutely stupid idea but I cant help it.
Tbh, id keep my 2 Zero West's. Id rather give up a body part than part with them!
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I’d give up my watches for.....a handy DeLorean which I would use to pop back and tell my younger self to stock pile sports Rolex & Heuers and to buy Apple and Amazon stock in large amounts. Also to not eat that prawn sandwich from the A1 services on the way to Leeds in 1995 which prodded my body into trying to reject every organ within it over a 72 hour period whilst lying shivering on a mattress in the coldest and possibly mankiest student digs in the North of England.
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My youngest child has a complex diagnosis including autism.
I would gladly give up all of my watches and the arm I wear them on if he could be ok..
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Tortoise wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:42 pm My youngest child has a complex diagnosis including autism.
I would gladly give up all of my watches and the arm I wear them on if he could be ok..
I hear you!

I'd also give mine up along with loads more if it meant my little guy wouldn't have to go through surgery for his craniosynostosis. That said, if Kylie was actually in the mix I'd have to give it careful consideration.
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This is a bit....err, deep.
Timeline: Christmas 2015. My partner of 35 years passed away. She'd suffered with MS.
May 2016. The heart attack that killed me. But they brought me back. Twice.
September 2016. My grandson Zack was born.
Christmas 2016. I bought myself my first "decent" watch to replace an old Citizen that I'd beaten up on for 20 years. It was a Hamilton Khaki Field Automatic, nothing grand but Swiss and interesting, it was what I could afford and I liked it. I still do, very much so.
February 2019. My father passed away after a long illness.
April 2020. My mother passed away suddenly.
2021. The last few years have been tremendously hard work. But the house is finally paid off and this year saw the acquisition of a Tudor BB58 and a Longines Big Eye. Quite the improvement in circumstances, but I reckon I have earned it.

So every morning I look into the watch box(es) to choose what is going on the wrist, and 12 lovely eyes remind me of the journey.
Give up my watches? I don't think so. :)
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Noush wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:25 am Give up my watches? I don't think so. :)
Wonderful post :D
watching you fail in your quest for a “one watch” has been great entertainment
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Watches aren't really very important at all so I'm sure most of us would give them up for the health and happiness of our family.....or Kyle Minogue!
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Thegreyman wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:46 am I'm sure most of us would give them up for the health and happiness of our family.
Of course we would. My post wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously.
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