I guess I have always had "a thing" for watches. When I was in high school, I "borrowed" my dad's Navitimer Cosmonaute quite often. I definitely wore it more often than he did! I had a progression of Swiss Army and Victorinox watches, some of which I still have, but most got beat to hell. 10 years or so ago, I decided it was time for a "nice" watch, and tried many but fell in love with a Tissot T-touch. Wore it for a long time, and then when I got my current job (with a 50% raise) wanted to get another, which became the Hamilton Khaki AirRace. About then, I started joining Internet fora and found out about Ball (which I had seen ads for when I was in Singapore), which "scratched my itch" for American brands, good lume, and not on everyone's wrists. I bought the Fireman 43 preowned. Then I wanted to tryout vintage, and found the Chronomatic B. In here somewhere, I fell in lust with the Ball Diver Worldtime ... Flames further fanned by the lack of availability pre-owned, so when one came available it had to be mine. This last Thanksgiving, my Dad gave me the Navitimer (its currently at "the spa", back at the end of the month) Bonus time came around, and I wanted something in-house, so the IWC Ingeniuer. Which brings us to today. I won't say "I'm done", but the IWC and the Chronomatic are for sale. I am looking for a 1971 PanEurop, and maybe a dress watch, but things are definitely slowing down, going more for "quality" (read: expensive and need more time to save up)