Has anyone heard of a "Pocket Watch Collectors Anonymous", in your area. This is getting to be downright addictive.

Hello, my name is Lorne and I haven't bought a pocket watch for 8 days.

Hiii, Lorne.

Hello my name is Peter and I haven't bougth
a pocket watch for 2 days.

Hello, the name is the same and I haven't bought a watch in 14 days

I am getting nervous & jerky though and just yesterday, I laughed aloud when I swatted a horsefly

regards,
bb

Hello,
I'm Bill, and it was so bad I went to counselling, but the therapist brought out a watch to time the session, and I bought it off of him, so that ended my counselling, I don't know what to do, I guess I am just destined to buy watches.

Hello my name is .....? Went on a bender last weekend and bought a dozen. Definitely need detox; so went to my favorite wine shop and stocked up with medication.

And off the wagon I fall with a mighty thud, I just bought a Waltham 1892 C.R.T.S. over the phone.

Lorne,

Oh No !

I wish I could of been there for you Lorne. I was too busy buying a watch of my own.

The next meeting will be catered with specially spiced used watch batteries and some very good used electrics I got from the Seoul, Korea central Subway stores. Guaranteed (to be "on time" twice a day) for Life!

Our recovery project will be to make our very own sundials with toothpicks superglue and tacks.

Hi. My name is Brad. I encountered a moment of weakness this morning, and bought an Elgin 573 movement. It doesn't even work...but I just HAD to.

Dave,

I would really like to attend the meeting but I am a tad short on cash right now and I'm saving up for.....well, another watch.

To all you poor souls addicted to watch collecting. Please let me introduce myself. My name is Rev. Brian, from Nigeria. I am president of LSOWC (Lost Souls of Watch Collecting). For the last several years I have been helping people like you, that are addicted to watch collecting. Although there is no known cure, I've found most people get relief from their addiction, by sending me their collection of watches. If you would like more information on me helping you, please e-mail me. Thanx, Rev. Bryan.

I hope this post does not bring to a halt the interesting remarks everyone has posted.

Abbreviated Wiki definition: Addiction is defined as the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences.

As yet I have not experienced adverse consequences from my watch collecting. As far as mood altering well there has been a good deal of elation.

This is the message I got from a friend who alerted me to a single pocket watch in a hawk shop in the boonies of southeastern B.C. He described it to me over the phone and I bought it after a brief negotiation with the proprietor. I should have started lower but adrenaline can make me stupid and I am still very happy with the price.

Message:
Hi Lorne,

I took the back off your watch to have a look in the natural light this morning, as the second hand shop is a dingy dark rabbit hole of a place. GREAT NEWS... the movement looks pristine.. the two screws holding the movement have one side filed off parallel with the slot, which was what made me think the screw was cockeyed when I looked in the shop. The screws are all straight, the face is almost pristine, and the case is worn but not abused. All in all a beautiful watch...I place a replacement value of at least $1200.00 on this item!!!(that's me pretending to talk like an expert). A 'Canadian Railway Time Service" movement in a "Made in Canada" case.. you can't get more Canadian than that! See you on Sunday.

Cheers, Kerry

How can this be a bad thing?

OH my God...just bought another Hamilton 992B 4C...I told myself not to...but I did not hear it! Perhaps another glass on Pinot Griggio will improve my hearing

Here is the Oxforddefinition of addiction

The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing or activity

addicted though most commonly used to define substance abuse also has the informal definition of enthusiastically devoted to a particular thing or activity

at least according to Oxford Dictionary

I hear that in most places PWCA is a 12 step program, but I imagine for Canadian railroad watch collectors it would have to be a 24 step program.

Also I would like to know if I am just buying movements and cases but not putting them together, do I still need to go to meetings?

If you will read the next message written by James Thurber regaling "The Unicorn in the Garden" and still think you CAN count your boobies before they are hatched, you are likely a "lost cause" to the horological afflictions . . .

by James Thurber
reprinted from
Fables For Our Time
Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses." She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him.

"The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; now he was browsing among the tulips. "Here, unicorn," said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. "The unicorn," he said,"ate a lily." His wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch."

The man, who had never liked the words "booby" and "booby-hatch," and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. "We'll see about that," he said. He walked over to the door. "He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead," he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.

As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye. She telephoned the police and she telephoned a psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down in chairs and looked at her, with great interest.

"My husband," she said, "saw a unicorn this morning." The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police. "He told me it ate a lilly," she said. The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist. "He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead," she said. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife. They had a hard time subduing her, for she put up a terrific struggle, but they finally subdued her. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband came back into the house.

"Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?" asked the police. "Of course not," said the husband. "The unicorn is a mythical beast." "That's all I wanted to know," said the psychiatrist. "Take her away. I'm sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jaybird."

So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.

Moral: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

Beautiful Ball Hamilton 999B, 16s, 21J, Adj 6 pos, lever set (SOLD)

I really need help I just bought this.

Apparently there's no hope for me, I've been addicted since I was little.BUT...since you guys are feeling so bad about yours, I can help.Just donate your collections to me, you'll have that monkey off your back, and I'll take good care of them!!!!...Ted.

I have tried not to bring this topic back, as I had thought I had defeated this addiction problem of mine, but Alas, I have not. I went to further counseling with the therapist I used last time, he brought out 2 watches to time the session this time, and I also bought them again, I think he is just taking advantage of me, in my vulnerable state. Tell me what to do, someone.
Bill

I'm not addicted. I buy them to fix up & resell, but my wife keeps putting them in HER collection!

Bill, next I am down your way we can go for coffee and talk. I'll bring a box of my "spares".

I have been an addict for many years....My first wife told me if I brought home one more watch she is gone...Well I have been happily married to my second wife for over 25 years now...LOL...

Hi, I'm a pocket watch crystal-o-holic. Years ago, I started out by collecting small hoards here and there but then that wasn't enough and I started making my own so that I would never run out. Then as my disease progressed, I started hiding crystals around the house. The other day my wife found a baggie of thick flat crystals in the toilet tank! I forgot all about those! By the way name is Bill W.

my wife found my hiding place ,I'm so ashamed ! now,back to the auction !

Kevin,what a great hiding place, or at least it was!
I have to keep mine in a tow sack suspended on a rope about 10 ft. long in the water well. Moisture can be a problem. Although the sack never touches water. So I think I will be alright!
Roger

I tried to make a deal with my wife....

every time she bought a purse/pocketbook or shoes I could buy a watch, funny thing we just found each others hiding places.

Would that be unfaithful and addicted?

Hi my name is Gene B and I'm a watch addict.

I've bought 3 pocket watches and a 21 jewel movement 2 days ago. From local shops while on vacation.

Gene,
Sounds like you are having the perfect vacation...

Yesterday Im driving on the hiway and I pass a semi truck. I see on the trailer a 6 or 7 digit number. I catch myself guessing what year serial no. of Waltham that would be

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Yesterday Im driving on the hiway and I pass a semi truck. I see on the trailer a 6 or 7 digit number. I catch myself guessing what year serial no. of Waltham that would be

That's funny. Dang, now I will be doing the same.