Ein paar Worte über den Blog und mich.
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elcome to my Blog.
Perhaps you are wondering why the name Timetotems?
Wikipedia says: “Totem is an ethnological term for symbols that express a mythical, kinship-like connection between a person or a group and a certain natural phenomenon.
Watches are our totems and our passion at the same time. It all started with a Memosail Regatta watch. It has a great countdown function and reminded me that I used to love sailing, but no longer do.
Tiefer eingestiegen bin ich in die Uhren Thematik, als ich eine klassische Heuer Viceroy Autavia wollte. Unbedingt….! Hier steht mehr darüber: Heuer Autavia 3446 second execution
Es gab nur ein Problem, ich hatte ein gewisses Budget pro Jahr zur Verfügung und wollte nicht völlig ausrasten und Haus und Hof versetzen.
Poor Mans Heuer
Speaking of Heuer – if you fulfill these conditions:
small wallet,
a love of Heuer vintage watches,
there is a term from the USA: “Poor Man’s Heuer”.
We are talking about watches that Heuer produced in the 60s and 70s plus under a different name, or that have the same specifications as Heuers of that time. For poor men today, these watches are out of reach of their wallets, as prices ranging from more than a thousand euros to five-digit sums are not exactly something for the “poor man” of today.
Vintage is “IN” and we notice that in the prices. Unfortunately.
How do you start collecting? Do you inherit a collection? You inherit money and fulfill your dreams? Do you love watches and start with what you have? The latter was the case for me. The watches were too expensive for me and so I also looked for other, so-called “Poor Man’s Heuer” watches, because I really liked them.
That’s how I started collecting cheap watches and the virus caught me.
To this day, I still look for watches that I like and that are affordable. I am dedicating this blog to this topic. Because I know that there are a lot of us who have big dreams and will eventually set off on our journey, taking small steps.
About the writer, me.
Florian Weixelbaumer is my name and I have an Austrian migration background. Yes, we are good at skiing and not at soccer, but luckily not everyone is interested in such banalities, right? 😉
I work for one or two print magazines in Germany and I love old motorcycles with small engines like my Vespa and a Yamaha TY. I usually restore the bikes I ride myself, such as a Honda Dax, an NSU Quickly, another Vespa and the two current ones.
My three children are all boys and we love fishing, skimboarding and anything you can do on or in the water. When the children were younger, my love of watches began to flare up again, in the form of vintage watches that were affordable at the time. That was around 2008. As it is in life, you only regret what you didn’t do… Namely, buying AUTAVIAs for a fifth of today’s price. (A bit of elderly wisdom, can you feel it?).
In 2018 I started this blog out of pure grown passion. Out of suffering and joy, about collecting watches. I’ve been a watch fan since childhood, and I wrote a little about this in the article “Why watches blow me away“.
I write about vintage watches, my collection, give a few tips for beginners who are safely out there and have caught the watch bug. And report on trips to Baselworld or meetings with some of today’s independent watchmakers.
More topics will be added in the future, time permitting. But more on that when things are ready. Just this much: I want to gather like-minded people and offer them a place where they can laugh, get help and other things I can’t foresee yet.