I am plebeian, a peasant basically.
The below is what I liked, what effort and money I was willing to put into a watch. I don't collect a thing, never have. More than a Seamaster seemed odd to me. I wear it everyday; flew with it, farm with it, live with it.
I based this on watches I inherited from relatives (the coolest is a Hamilton Standard Navy issue from WWII) that all had a lived in feel. My Dad's watch, worth nothing, speaks to me since I see it in my minds eye on his wrist in the exact same shape today as it was then.
Again, modest people without panache.
