Well...as said in the headline...I am already a watch addict, a WIS so to say

I came straight from gens...

I started my career back in 1983 with my first swatch, a Jelly Fish .
Till 1993 I had about 25 different swatch in my collection and decided to go for my first "expensive" full metal watch...a Citizen Promaster Chrono which cost me a little more then 500DM
1994 I bought my first Sinn, a 144 St Sa from good old Helmut...very nice experience
Sinn Sinn was followed by an Omega Speedmaster 1995, a Baume & Mercier Hampton Automatic in 1996, a Baume & Mercier Riviera Chrono in 1997 and a Glashütte Sport Diver also in 1997...as one can see...I was totally infected

I had to sell all my expensive watches due to divorce from my wife but kept the Citizen as it hasnīt had a high value at all.
I was cured till 2007...
I was lying in hospital and had to distract myself from pain so I surfed the internet.
I donīt remember anymore but it ended up with being a member of two very famous german watch boards and starting my new collection with bying Seikos.
After a year or so I decided to leave the Seiko path and headed over to low priced (up to 1k€) swiss watches.
Only a half year later I found myself within the middle price range (up to 3k€) and at the end of 2009 I had been hooked by PAM and Rolex.
I spend a lot of money these times in finding out what would be the "right watch" or at least "the right collection" for me...as already been told...I bought and sold and bought and sold like there was no tomorrow.
I always felt uncomfortable with spending and keeping so much money with and in watches...but I canīt stop at this moment.
End of 2010 I somehow cleared my mind, sold all my watches spent the money for a new bathroom (3rd child was born in 2010, we need to get a second bathroom ) and decided that my collection should never be worth more then 5k€.
So I had some Sinn, Revue Thommen, Seikos and Citizen as well...fine...
Beginning of this year I became bored again of my collection and I still was hooked by Rolex...but...I still didnīt want to spend so much money for watches.
That was the point when I started to go my way into reps

So what would I like to say with this...I do know a lot about watches, I had a lot of different watches (last year I started to count at least the different watches I had photos of...196 watches from April 2007 till June 2012...yep...Iīm nuts ), and finally I found what really impresses me.

First...itīs the design.
Second...itīs the technology.
Third...itīs the hunting

So Iīm pretty sure I donīt want to get back to PAM but will stay with Rolex.
The purchases done so far are just for having some watches to wear.

Iīd like to Franken some watches...so my future projects will be:

A 1675
A 5513
A 1680
A 16610LV

I think Iīll start with something "low Franken" and mod it to the max piece by piece.

My grail project will be a 16520 SuperFranken with Zenith 400 movement, gen dial, gen hands, gen bracelet, gen crystal, gen crown, gen pusher, aftermarket case.
But at this moment this project is far away