Good Morning: I have been collecting watches for most of my life and in a more serious fashion for the last 18 years. I know there are many others who have been collecting for longer and several here who are in the watch business.

Over your time collecting, repairing, dealing, what watch 'wisdom' have you learnt? This is intended to be a firmly tongue-in-cheek thread.

I will start with a quote from T.S. Eliot.

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

My first 'good' watch was an Omega SMP. The last watch I bought (after having a hundred plus come through my hands) was, you guessed it, an Omega SMP.