Seduced by the world of watches from an early age, Vikram Ramchandani embarked on his quest for the perfect wrist candy. The ardent aficionado writes about his ongoing love affair with horological offerings.
THE CHASE Man has long had a passion for hunting; his earliest encounters were to satiate his appetite, which soon moved towards more carnal desires as he began his quest for the fairer sex. As man evolved so did his expeditions, from the hunt for new civilisations to his search for what’s written in our stars. As a man, I am both driven and enamoured by the hunt, and like those before me I am obsessive in running after my vices.
My interest in time, and subsequently the ways of measuring it, began at a relatively impressionable age of 12 or perhaps 14; I can’t quite remember. There were two concepts that intrigued me then and they continue to hypnotise me today. The first was the understanding of a person’s relation to time; how it is savoured and consumed. The second was the device that equated the infinitum of time. So began my journey into the haunting pursuit of the perfect keeper of time, the ideal wristwatch.
My journey had humble beginnings and, like most, it started at home. I vividly remember my father bringing back an oblong gift in a plastic box from one of his business trips to Europe. The packaging was magical and so revolutionary to me. It was like nothing that he had brought for me in the past. It was my first tryst with beauty, besides a girl across the wall in my gender-segregated Catholic school who now remains faceless.
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