A Wristed Development
State of the Collection — Part 3: Collection Flagbearers
Looking back at what came and went from my collection in 2022, I would feel comfortable calling 2022 the "Year of the Dive Watch". As we saw in part one and part two of my SOTC series, I shed a portion of time-only and vintage pieces in lieu of adventure-ready dive watches. The Doxa Army was the only watch I purchased in 2022 that was not decidedly a dive watch. Even then, the Army still had all the necessary traits to take a plunge if called on.
State of the Collection — Part 2: New additions in 2022
In part one of this series, I mentioned that one watch, the Seiko SPB143, changed the trajectory of my collection in 2022. Indeed, the SPB143 shifted my taste strongly toward dive watches.
State of the Collection — Part 1: What left the collection in 2022
"Upheaval" — that's the word that jumps to mind when I think about how the past year has shaped my watch collection. At the beginning of 2022, my collection felt a little out of sorts; lost, and without direction.