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As a kid I allways wanted to buy ...

In Response To: Re: I buy watch for myself, not other people ()

: How do you afford watches in Croatia, then?

Small number of people do have a lots of money and they buy watches because they are expensive and they wish to show they have lots of money.

As for myself, I remember, when I was a kid, and my father went somewhere to business trip. He would ask: what should I get you. I allways had same answer: "Dady, get me a watch, but with many buttons and many hands". Then we were in Yugoslavia, and could not see or buy such watches here. Inexpensive Russian and East German only. It was not easy for us to travel abroad for years.

So, now I am grown up, and I still can not explain why I like chronographs, but I do. It is not rational at all. When you love something, you try to buy it, if anyhow possible :) I am not rich at all. Actually, me buying expensive watches is not reasonabile or wise at all.

I only do not know exactly how will I justify buying Zenith Moonphase to myself :) which is my next big wish :)