Guilty pleasures... you know you've got them!

[SlimKlim]

I had that watch repair guy go over my grandfather's watch and he ended up replacing the gasket on the back of the case, replacing a few bent/wrong size spring pins, putting a new battery in it and giving it a good thorough cleaning. The cleaning loosened up some of the ugly corrosion on the case and it looks a lot better now.

So then I started researching that thing out of curiosity, and reading about old Seikos, then I started talking to Lee, and all of a sudden I've become a "watch guy." Goddammit.

I was eyeballing this really simple 38mm Tissot at that shop, and ended up going back last week to pick it up while it was still 35% off. It came on a black alligator strap but I had him swap it over to a brown band.



Yesterday I threw my LG Urbane up on /r/watchexchange because I figured it'd be easier than a straight sale and I ended up having a few offers roll in within the hour. I'm swapping it for an Orient Wingman Automatic, I actually need to go drop it in the mail later today.



I'm sort of tempted to throw it back on there in a month and see what I can trade it for with a max of $20 on my end. Maybe I can do it every month or so and end up with an IWC in 5 years. :lol:

I feel like if I've thought of something, it surely exists already, but, is there a service that allows you rent watches, or just delivers watches to you on a regular shipment like a trunk club/birch box/bark box/etc type deal?

I wouldnt use it, but there's gotta be some money in that one for guys that want to cycle through watches without the buying/selling.

I've seen one where you pay like $20 a month to get a watch "worth $50" every month, but one member gets a Rolex. There's also that Eleven James company where you make a small car payment to borrow a five-figure watch for the month.