I was thinking about the watches I have that are gold or rose gold. I've never worn them or am I into wearing anything gold except for a bronze watch. Just some of the many watches from the dazed and confused days in the early collecting stabbing everything in sight.
RW, to quote you above, "I was thinking about the watches I have that are gold or rose gold. I've never worn them or am I into wearing anything gold except for a bronze watch."
I TOTALLY AGREE with you. In fact here are preferences/requisites for when considering acquisitions/new buys for my collection:
1) Stainless Steel, titanium, tungsten or other NON-Yellow metal (EXCEPT bronze) for my watches. ( Exceptions- I absolutely love all the new fangled colored Damascus steel and Carbon cases). Any watch yellow or rose gold colored are probably PLATED which means the plating WILL eventually wear...some watches sooner than later
The only true SS/18KT watches I wear "on (special) occasion" are my Rolex two tone Datejust with Jubilee bracelet and my vintage SS/18KT Tag Heurer "Link" Chronometer from the 1990's which are both solid 18KT and will not wear off.
These are my esteemed "Professional" watches I wore for decades during my corporate career, especially when I traveled to Asia during my numerous factory trips abroad where Asian co-workers and hosts are so designer label conscious...
2) My watches should have Automatic movements, Mechanical movements, Tourbillion movements. As a former engineer I just find them more interesting. I prefer Swiss (who doesn't) movements but I am cognizant that lots of movements are really Chinese sourced parts and/or entirely Chinese assembled. I also recognized that esteemed Japanese brand movements have shared assembly/fabrication from all over Asia (Seiko, Miyota, etc.) This is not a problem for me since after working for a Japanese company for over 3 DECADES I know they control absolute QUALITY in production, wherever their factory is located and their products are made/assembled with the same CONSISTENT quality like a Toyota or Nissan vehicle, for example
Watches with Quartz movements (and their battery replacements) are HIGHLY AVOIDED unless it's a rather unique designed watch and/or contains a high quality repairable Quartz movement like a Rhonda Swiss 8040N, 5040 et al. Out of HUNDREDS of watches that I own, I have less than around a dozen with Quartz movements.
3) I prefer watches with matching bracelets as they "age" much better than watches with watchbands, whether Leather (or some exotic variation thereof) or silicone bands or (God forbid!)
Polyurethane straps. Don't get me wrong, I have PLENTY of "STRAPPED" watches (and TONS of spare new watch bands) but I still prefer watches with bracelets. At least you can wear them once in awhile without showing "sweat" stains or wear marks unlike on leather bands plus I just find them overall more comfortable (especially in warm weather) since I like to wear my watches sized a notch up "loose" and in general just overall easier to keep clean and in "like new" condition