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 watches anymore…. Just one inexpensive watch to thrash around. In fact, the watch I used to wear the most, a Spirit 37 champagne, might be the first to go.
Congrats :). You can't go wrong with Rolex, you're not "dropping money", you're "moving it around" (from your bank to your wrist), the great thing about these watches is that you can always move things around the other way again lol. I looked up the current street value of the 1980's Date I inherited from my dad and if anything, it costs more now than it did then.