I’ve been tracking which watch I wear and when for a while now. Using WristTrack, an app that’s essentially simple: log a watch on, log it off, done. At the end of the month you get a tidy bar chart.
April: The Baume & Mercier Monopoly
In April I wore the green Riviera seven times. Plus the blue one six times, the Hampton three — meaning almost 40 percent of my total wearing time in April went to a single brand. To Baume & Mercier.
If anyone had seen my April chart, they’d have assumed I was a brand ambassador.
May: The DUG Enters the Room
And then came the DUG Purist Typ 2. In April it doesn’t show up in the chart at all — because I didn’t have it yet — and then in May it lands at the top with eleven. That’s roughly every third day. The B&M Riviera Green, previously the undisputed number one, drops back to three.
I know this about myself: every new watch gets that honeymoon period. You wear it constantly because you don’t really know it yet — how it looks in different light, whether it warms up on the wrist, whether the crystal mirrors at a shallow angle. With the DUG it doesn’t, not in a distracting way. More on that in a dedicated post.
The quiet winner: Cartier Santos
What genuinely surprised me was the Cartier Santos. Three times in April, seven in May. I gave the leather strap a proper go and even though I was skeptical at first about the buckle, it’s turned the Cartier into a more everyday-capable watch for me. A little less jewellery, but as iconic as ever.
And three watches completely vanished in May: the B&M Hampton, the Orient Multi-Year Calendar, the Junghans Max Bill. All three present in April, zero in May. Not because I don’t like them. Sometimes a watch just doesn’t come up — and the chart is ruthlessly honest about that.
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