A couple of days ago, I picked up a Seiko 6105 from 1968 in all its well worn glory.

Don’t get me wrong, i love pristine pieces for sure, but for me, there is just something in these aged, battle scarred even, pieces that give me an incomparable high.

Some people call it patina, but i think the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi captures it better. Patina is more fact, Wabi Sabi is an outlook: “finding beauty in the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete”.

I am a story teller by nature and this probably explains my inclination to these watches. While a pristine piece leads me to a tale of a watch carefully kept in the drawer for years, these beaten, honestly worn watches invite me to relive the adventures of the original owners when they trekked up mountains, or skin dived, or maybe even just routinely waited for their train more than half a century ago.

They also probably cursed when they dinged their watch for the first time, or regret wearing it to a fist fight while drunk on a friday night, and so on. I’m almost certainly wrong actually, haha, but yeah.

So today, ill share some of my absolute favorites, all of which I chose because of their perfect imperfections

What do you guys think? Let me know your views 🙂

*pic of the wabi sabi room is from the net, all watch pics are mine