It's all true. Although, there are vastly divergent ways to tackle this hobby. Lots of people focus on cheap quartz watches and affordable mechanicals from Se

It's all true. Although, there are vastly divergent ways to tackle this hobby. Lots of people focus on cheap quartz watches and affordable mechanicals from Seiko and the like. Personally, I am head over heels for Casio as well. You can have a great Casio collection (MDV-106 Duro, G-Shock, A168) for under $100. Casio has sold their original black G-Shock virtually unchanged for decades; you can pick one up for $45 at Amazon or WalMart and a lot of folks consider that watch as important as anything Rolex has ever done. While I admittedly was quickly "addicted" to watches, climbing the ladder of luxury watches held zero interest to me. It was just so obvious to me from the beginning: you can literally spend as much as you want and you'll never be happy. Cars, hi-fi gear, it all works that way. Their beauty combined with their flaws puts people on the never ending, wallet destroying quest for the holy grail. And the diminishing returns from jumping from a "budget" watch of 3-500$ to a "nice" one of 2-3000$ are ridiculously small. I never felt this pressure, but many do. The nice thing about this hobby is that nobody gives a shit what you're wearing. The average person just sees that you're wearing a watch, unless you're wearing something super gaudy. Watch people... well, they're kind of like car people. The prices for truly top-end stuff are so astronomical that nobody can afford it anyway, so folks just focus on little niches that interest them. Your average car nut has a collection that is more "quirky" and "surprising bang for the buck" than "this is the ultimate car, bow down to me." Similar with watches: it's generally not like a pecking order where people with $5000 watches look down on people with $500 watches. People who really like this stuff tend to just appreciate cool watches, whatever "cool" means to them.