| > As a "watch wearer" I find wearing the watch to be the whole point. I am, indeed, surprised by that, but only, again, because it seems passive. Is there more to it, like being seen? Seeing others' reactions? I'm genuinely curious. I also suspect you're unusual, which is why I was hoping to hear from the original commenter. I could, of course, be quite wrong. > If there was a service where I could wear different watches without owning them I would be all over that. I did a web search for "luxury watch rental" and found something at least vaguely similar. If those services aren't what you're looking for, maybe that's a business idea, along the lines of pooling/sharing private jets. > If I could only own watches to display them in my house and never take them out I wouldn't bother. Seems like a false dichotomy. However, it's closer to the actual practice (as I understand it) of owning multiples units but only ever wearing one at a time. Of course, I'm lumping "collectors" in with "wearers", but that's partly because it's so difficult to distinguish from external observation and partly because some commenters have described watches as art, something which doesn't generally have an activity it can be used for. |