Orient Classic Vintage Automatic Watch

I am a landscape photographer now (just retired from my day job), and have collected photographs/prints for years. Also collect fountain pens/inks, vinyl/cd/sacds--you name it, if I get into it, I collect it. Ironically, I have learned the markets, values of items, how to research them, the dealers, etc.---but I don't buy much anymore. For me, the chase of collecting has informed my tastes and I know pretty much if an item is worth researching or not. I am grateful to other photographers, who have helped me with my photography/print collecting. These days, with the internet, there really is no excuse for not doing your homework.

What else do you collect? My number one vice is Apple devices: approximately four dozen iPhones, iPods, iPads, AppleTVs, Macbooks, Mac Minis, iMacs, and MacPros. My six 2008 MacPro 3,1 computers are the worst - all are highly upgraded and they consume so much energy they double as space heaters. Fortunately, my wife has been bitted by the collecting bug as well, so she allows me to indulge my obsession.

Yep, you nailed it. I an obsessive collector of lots of things. I am so far down the rabbit hole of watches it is not funny--except is is fun, so I keep doing it. Just retired, so that makes it even worse. Cheers.