THE GREEN ROOM

Welcome to my current personal watch collection, aka at The Green Room. Below are watches I enjoy wearing and watching and talking about. Until this year, I did not realize I am a “watch collector” even though I have been buying watches most of my adult life based solely on appearance and not really understanding movements, crystals, barrels and bezels.

YouTube has been a curse and mostly an inspiration. The various channels obviously have turned me on to so many brands I had no idea about, and has certainly “influenced” my recent purchase of at least 20 watches.  I have determined that my personal tastes and brand are mostly about researching microbrands for creative concepts and designs that mirror my sense of humor and passion for graphic and industrial design.

Pablo Raez Watch Featured ImageMaybe someday I will own a Rolex or a Tudor, but not anytime soon.  I like the idea of owning a German watch from the Glashütte region including a NOMOS or a Mühle Glashütte or Moritz Grosman watches in addition to A. Lange & Söhne. For now, as I allocate time to shoot images and videos of my current acquisitions, you will notice a new large collection from Ali Express to include Pagani Design, Tandorio. Pablo Raez, Seestern, and AddiesDive watches.

Quickly I have learned that even tho no one should even care about my watch collection, you learn to defend your Chinese acquisitions and even watches that have a quartz movement versus an automatic or manual wind movement. But, it is almost impossible to ignore the value and styles that Timex and Seiko are offering, along with Casio and many other mainstays that have built the foundations for many of the higher end watchmakers.

I have a super cool Nordsø Meteorite on order and the Mr. Jones watches absolutely match my sense of humor, regardless if I would ever wear my Number cruncher. Without influence from YouTube over the years I have acquired pieces from Mazzucato, Breil, Dan Henry, Phoibos Voyager and others and even a benign Vince Camuto Chrono I bought from Costco.  I see these less expensive pieces as a way to really taste the styles and movements in advance so when I am ready to invest in a more expensive watch, I will feel confident and secure that when I drop $2500USD+ on a watch, this is a watch I really want.

Similar to my first efforts in Photoshop 4.0 back in 1996. The only way to sort of learn Photoshop back then was via listerv messages, and it was way more complex than I could even imagine.  At that time a similar software from a company Ulead offered a much less expensive version with a bunch of preset creative effects that Photoshop would certainly do better but when you don’t know, you don’t know.  It probably took me five years to finally wean myself off of the Ulead PhotoImpact software and achieve the results I want solely in Photoshop. You understand the parallel, right?

Normally I would be satisfied with “ignorance is bliss..” but, now that I am really getting into horology, it is fascinating! I have  a growing collection of over 100 watches I want to add here, but it will take some time.  So, come back for a visit sometime!

Parnis PA683

Parnis 43mm Dress Watch

ADDIESDIVE 36mm Quartz Watch

ADDIESDIVE 36mm Quartz Watch

Nordsø Meteorite - Cosmic Purple DLC

HENRY ARCHER COSMIC PURPLE

BREIL ABARTH CHRONO GENT

Hruodland Pilot

Pagani Design 1645 - 2024

PAGANI DESIGN ROLEX HOMAGE

PABLO RAEZ DE BALLON

PHOIBOS Voyager 200M Automatic Diver Watch PY035B Blue

PHOIBOS VOYAGER DIVER

PAGANI SPORTS DIVE CHRONO

NAVIFORCE DAY WEEK DATE SILVER

PAGANI DESIGN PD YS014

PAGANI YS014 GOLD BROWN

PAGANI DESIGN 1707

Roland Sands Signature 2253

ARAGON HIRO 3D GRAY

North Edge Gavia Sports Watch

NORTH EDGE GAVIA

Seiko Sport GMT SSK017

Seiko 5 Sports GMT SSK017

CADOLA BLACK ECLIPSE

Spinnaker Bradner GMT Automatic SP-5121-77

SPINNAKER BRADNER GMT

VOSTOK AMPHIBIA

CITIZEN HAN SOLO 2022

PONO WOODWORKS

Pagani Design 1679

PAGANI DESIGN RED BULL HOMAGE

BERNY TIRE DIAL COMPASS

Mr. Jones Watches Number Cruncher

Mr. Jones Watches – Number Cruncher

RGMT TRITIUM AUTOMATIC

AMAZON ESSENTIALS

DFV COSWORTH EMERSON

CITIZEN TWO TONE FUGU

Seestern SUB600T

SEESTERN SUB600T

BERNY 2676M

PLAYBOY IN BLUE

TANDORIO MILITARY DIVER

TANDORIO CALI BROWN DIAL

Deep Blue Master 1000 II

DEEP BLUE 1000 V2 ABALONE DIAL

ADDIESDIVE H5 CUSTOM

Pablo Raez Watch Featured Image

PABLO RAEZ FASHION QUARTZ

Pagani Design Model PD-1736

PAGANI PD-1736 SQUARE BLUE

Expedition North® Field Chronograph

Timex Expedition North® Field

BERNY DIGITAL LARGE

BERNY YELLOW DIVER

GIULIA VINTAGE WHITE

Humism Kato Kinetic

HOWARD HUGHES H1 CHRONO

Mazzucato RIM SUB - Black/Silver SK1-BL - Automatic Dive Watch

MAZZUCATO RIM SUB DIVE WATCH

CASIO ADVENTURES

Bertucci DX3 Field Resin Watch

Bertucci DX3 Field Resin Watch

PAGANI BUSINESS CHRONO

ROSE GOLD MOON PHASE

Dan Henry 1970 Automatic Diver

Dan Henry 1970 Automatic Diver

Baltany Bronze Retro

Baltany Bronze Retro