Time & Sound | Talking Watches and Music

[@kirklobo3880]

Thanks for sharing this other love of yours Janek. Watches have been dear to me for a long time, a Seiko Willard Reissue I bought myself before getting married saw me through my wedding day, moving into our first home, timing the contractions of my wife when she went into labor for our first girl, the first home that we bought together, and I'm sure many many more memories in the future. It's not just about telling the time, but having a talisman that has seen you through the pivotal and mundane points of your life, and can do the same for the person who owns it next. I appreciate your collection as it gives me an insight into the type of person you are. I myself gravitate to mostly divers and GMT complications. Thanks for your content, it truly feels like you're giving a part of yourself away and I feel your community really appreciates and admires that.

[@avital2166]

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[@oliplaysbass]

Great watch Janek (no pun intended) I used to be a big fan of them and still have a small collection, used to work in a jewellers and sell them for a short time which started it off. It feels like the only real jewellery men can wear. Having said that I ended up converting to Fitbit and later Apple Watch and just haven’t really gone back due to all the functions they have. Very fascinating, cool collection.

[@christophercheney1006]

I've heard people say that watches are, on a certain level, "dude's jewelry". I'm not a watch guy, I wear one, a beat up $50 timex. My impetus for starting to wear one a few years back: to stop looking at my damn phone to check the time. That being said, the parallels that you just drew are profound and on point dawg!! ...shucks, now that I think of it, I totally rocked 2 Swatches at once back on the late 80's. Primarily because I saw Scott Ian from Anthrax doing it. Nerd shit!!!

[@lelubulotta7448]

Personally, I’m not a fan of watches. I have one person in my family who’s a big fan, though; he has a vast collection of them. Some of the names you threw here are among his most treasured ones. I don’t understand a single bit of it, but I get the parallelism you’re trying to establish. I think of them as the grand piano: it’s been around for a quite a while and despite all the technological advances, it is never going to be replaced. Even though we’re moving forward to make everything lightning-fast, connected and “digital”, some things stood the test of time to prove that no matter how “robot-like” we might want things to be, life is organic. Flesh and bone, wood and metal are still the foundation of everything. I don’t know… May sound a bit nostalgic, old-schooled, out of fashion or simply as an “age thing”, but I feel I’m getting on the same lane here: started to appreciate and understand the high value of simplicity. Quite often it is the most efficient and direct way to convey our ideas to be clearly understood. As a musician, I feel that our art suffers if we don’t have other “means to feed it” apart from the music itself. I used to be a collector when I was a kid. Action figures, trading card games, cigarette packs, rocks… and early on: music records. But I feel a strong pull to books, poetry, paintings and history. I guess those would be my main feeders out of music. And I try to bring them together as much as I can. Thank you for opening this side of you. It is well-known that everything in this universe relates in one way or another to music, and I love to hear how great artists find inspiration in other aspects of life to breast-feed their creativity.