The Hunt

I enjoy the hunt. Yes of course I'm talking about nerdiness. It's frustrating how tough some of my hunts are, yet if they weren't they would be boring. I've written about some of my recent hunts:

Years ago I was on the hunt for solid brass nautical jewelry. I ended up finding brass deep sea diving helmets and made some jewelry and Christmas tree ornaments with them. I tracked down a solid brass ball chain and have my personal dive helmet attached to it with brass wire. I found a decent solid brass anchor pendant also. It seems there aren't many hobbyist jewelers out there who are interested in non-costume components. And related to these, figured out how to make fiddler caps, because I couldn't find black wool fiddler caps that I liked.

Then, after a trip to Disneyland I became obsessed with Tomorrowland. So I began hunting for watches and other things that look like my idea of retro future / futurism. I have tracked down t-shirts that celebrate retro-futurism, sci-fi, Linux/Unix. It's amazing how tough it is to find cool space age looking watches. Or decent square watches in general. Turns out I'm about 5-10 years too late. I missed some amazing looking Diesel watches, Stark watches, and some smart watches.

After perusing shops in Maui I've returned to my love of dive watches. I ended up finding a very reasonably priced Armida that has everything I was looking for. I am looking around for something further up the luxery chain, I would like to have a better depth rating, and would like to see a Swiss movement in action. I like the Seiko movements, they are rugged work horses, but they are not as accurate so need adjustment often.

We'll see what hunts come next. Strangely enough I'm actually not.a huge collector. I have a few watches sitting around, a few shirts, hats etc. But once I achieve what I'm looking for, I'm done. And... I try to offload stuff so I keep the numbers down. :)