Someone asked about the rest of the collection in comments, so here you go.
It’s a modest collection of nice-but-not-outrageous watches as far as price goes. The whole case is worth less than a single basic Omega or Rolex. Not that I would mind owning a Seamaster or a Submariner, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to bring myself to spend five or ten grand on a watch. (My answer may change if someone ever gives me a truck full of cash for movie rights or something.)
Top row, left to right: Mondaine Quartz Classic, Orient Defender, Island Watch Aviator, and a Borel that’s a high quality Swiss Datejust homage.
Bottom row, left to right: Orient Mako, Junkers G-38 GMT, Arctos/GPW Titanium Einsatzuhr, and a Phoibos Proteus with a meteorite dial.
The oldest watch in that case is the two-tone Borel on the top right, which I got as a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law about 15 years ago. The youngest one is the Phoibos on the bottom right, which I bought with some of the Netflix money from my Love Death + Robots contributions.
Not pictured are the half dozen Casios I keep in my nightstand drawer…several G-Shocks, two Edifices, and a few fun cheapies that are great as beater watches. Those don’t go into a watch case because that would be silly, and also because I don’t want to buy another watch case. I never thought I’d even fill that 8-slot one, but it turns out that once you get bitten by the horology bug, you tend to accumulate more.
Marko,
I was that guy in the comments asking about your collection in your previous post, so thank you for indulging my request, as it was great to see your collection! My flagship piece is a Traska Freediver (microbrand like Phoibos), but I have set my sights on an Oris divers sixty-five by the end of 2021.
Semi-related: in Frontlines, Andrew always refers to his watch as a “chrono”. Can you give us insight on what existing watch, if any, would appear most like his chrono? I’ve picture a Suunto Core-ish watch, but feel free to ruin my head-cannon.
Probably something like a Suuntu Core All Black or something along those lines. A big, round, shock-proof polymer body with a bunch of useful functions for grunts.
You’ve basically denied that a movie is being produced as far as I know, you’ve always left that “open”
You and William Gibson, apparently.
Going on looks, I like the Borel best. Personally, I’ve always liked the black dial face with gold case/band combination. Likely because that’s the style of the first watch I remember my father wearing, as well as the style of the last watch I gave him before he passed. (I still have it, of course.)