My Watch Fire (prologue)

To start of everything, here's my inventory of watches. When i started out watches, around me was surrounded by watches such as the bell n ross (when it first came out, pre-phantom days):

my boss snag this from hour glass. at that time, B&R were going for SGD4.5k or so. It came in a nice long box, had a leather strap on the side with rubber straps on. It was big, flashy and most important of all quite earth shaking for a 18 year old who had no interest in watch ever n grew up around ppl who wore traditionals (uncle-ish watches).

another colleague of mine had this on, probably a long time wearer of that watch. wears it day in day out.

a good point to note is that everyone had I worked with is from a shipping background at one point in time they were sailing on merchant vessels some of them were captains, they were running a small broker shop but ship brokering is not by the size of your shop but your stuff, but I digress, back to horology.

anyhow, these are the sweet child o mine watches, the few that pushes u into the world of micro-heartbeats running on springs, gears cogs, tickers, sweeping hands, LUME, simple clean looks. no redundant functions, just good old fashion watch with  day/date functions if possible.

after which i have no idea when, dive watches start to attract me more than aviation watches or dress watches except for bell and ross. (more on that another day).