Watch Meetups are (Finally!) Back
During the pandemic, there were three things that completely stopped for me that I couldn?t wait to get back to once it was deemed safe. After a nice Mother?s Day celebration with family in May, and stuffing popcorn into my face during a Friday night screening of Those Who Wish Me Dead at the local multiplex, one pandemic bucket list item remained. My local watch collectors group, Booze & Bezels, hadn?t met for over a year. For me, our monthly watch meetups were always a highlight, and helped make this hobby seem ?real? in a way that browsing forums and classified listings, or even working in the industry, can?t. When you get together with friends to talk watches, it?s just more immediate and satisfying.Â
Credit: Booze & Bezels
It?s easy to think of watch collecting as a solitary pursuit. In many important ways, it absolutely is, and indeed that?s part of the appeal. There?s something inherently private about watch collecting. Watches are a thing you wear on your body, after all, and the things that make us like any particular watch are incredibly personal. They involve our subjective taste, which we often have a hard time articulating, and play on our ideas of the past, and nostalgia, connected as they are to history or milestone events in our own lives. To an outside observer who is already confused about how a site like Worn & Wound can even exist or why someone would collect these things in the first place, the idea of getting together in a group...
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