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recent bookmarks from robertogreco"Anything that comes out of a writer is fiction." | Writer Benjamín Labatut | Louisiana Channel - YouTube2024-02-01T02:45:19+00:00
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http://www.watchpaper.com/2015/07/16/william-gibson-on-watches/
robertogrecoPeople who’ve read this piece often assume that I subsequently became a collector of watches. I didn’t, at least not in my own view. Collections of things, and their collectors, have generally tended to give me the willies. I sometimes, usually only temporarily, accumulate things in some one category, but the real pursuit is in the learning curve. The dive into esoterica. The quest for expertise. This one lasted, in its purest form, for five or six years. None of the eBay purchases documented [in the essay] proved to be “keepers.” Not even close.
Undaunted by his placing this interest squarely in the past, something he got over, I wanted to find out what had survived, physically or intellectually, of his obsession. It turns out, quite a lot. We corresponded via email and William Gibson shared his thoughts on collecting, how he got started, what “keepers” remain in his collection and why. We also talked about the Apple watch and what it means for traditional horology.”
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"If “old” people, as you mentioned in our recent discussion, are concerned that what they’ve collected will be unwanted, how is that anxiety being manifested? Some watch brands like Patek Philippe use durability, inheritance and legacy as their explicit identity.
I was thinking of someone with dozens of rare military watches. Even if they have children, will the children want their watches? It could be difficult finding the right museum to donate them to, in order to keep the collection intact. I think Patek’s appeal to inheritance and legacy still has some basis, though the wristwatch itself has become a piece of archaic (though still functional) jewelry. You don’t absolutely need one. You do, probably, absolutely need your smartphone, and it also tells the time. Eventually, I assume, virtually everything will also tell the time.
Is there something authentic in collecting we as humans are striving for? What does the impulse represent for you?
I actively enjoy having fewer, preferably better things. So I never deliberately accumulated watches, except as the temporary by-product of a learning curve, as I searched for my own understanding of watches, and for the ones I’d turn out to particularly like. I wanted an education, rather than a collection. But there’s always a residuum: the keepers. (And editing is as satisfying as acquiring, for me.)
Do you think there’s anything intrinsic to watches (their aesthetics, engineering etc.) that make them especially susceptible to our interest?
Mechanical timekeeping devices were among our first complex machines, and became our first ubiquitous complex machines, and the first to be miniaturized. Mechanical wristwatches were utterly commonplace for less than a century. Today, there’s no specific need for a mechanical watch, unless you’re worried about timekeeping in the wake of an Electromagnetic Pulse attack. So we have heritage devices, increasingly archaic in the singularity of their function, their lack of connectivity. But it was exactly that lack that once made them heroic: they kept telling accurate time, regardless of what was going on around them. They were accurate because they were unconnected, unitary.
How do you think the notion of collecting has changed since your preoccupation with watches played itself out? Scarcity (but not true rarity) barely exists any more.
The Internet makes it increasingly easy to assemble a big pile of any category of objects, but has also rationalized the market in every sort of rarity. There’s more stuff, and fewer random treasures. When I discovered military watches, I could see that that was already happening to them, but that there was still a window for informed acquisition. That’s mostly closed now. The world’s attic is now that much more thoroughly sorted and priced!"]]>watches williamgibson ebay horology fashion collecting collections learning howwelearn 2015 esoterica research researching deepdives expertise obsessions cv immersion posterity legacy analog mechanical durability longevity inheritance jewelery smartphones understanding education self-directed self-directedlearning timekeeping connectivity scarcity objects possessions ownership quality internet web online wristwatches things applewatch pebble pebblewatch smartwatches watchcollecting canon watchcanon rolex rolexexplorer 1016explorer oris jaeger-lecoultre tamagotchi tamagotchigesture grandseiko georgebamford mods modding watchmods benrus quartz springdrive jamesdowling hyunsukseung beams rolexsubmariner ministryofdefense omega obsession watchcollections obessions watchmodding gadawatches haq highaccuracyquartzhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f47fdaec8d3c/The Limits of “Grit” - The New Yorker2016-06-25T04:53:54+00:00
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