Beautiful. I have a calculator like that.

I think the G-Shock is an excellent idea unless your main interest is apres ski at the lodge. Then a mechanical watch is the way.

Etsy and eBay are your friends. I have a fairly large collection of bronze watches, and I’ve never satisfied with what comes on the straps.

Please don’t buy a time peace even a fine time peace with the expectation that it’s going to go up in value you’re going to be disappointed at some point. Aside from the hedge against inflation that it might provide, the last many years have been an anomaly.

I’ve been collecting watches for about 40 years and started off with a Seiko, which wasn’t really much of a collector watch and what I found myself doing from time to time was buying watches that I thought I wanted, but ultimately didn’t, so if I could give my twentysomething self a piece of advice it would be to focus on the best quality watch you can get for the best price.