Why the Watch Enthusiast Is Fated to a Life of Eternal Agony

The Watch Potency Principle states that as a watch enthusiast adds watches to his collection, the potency of his pleasure and satisfaction derived from his watches dissipates and is replaced with anxiety, displeasure, disappointment, and resentment, and that the opposite is also true: As his collection winnows down to a few–usually between three and six–the potency of pleasure and satisfaction he derives from his watches increases to the point that the potency affirms the hard-fought choices he had to make to arrive at his small albeit potent collection. 

But the story of the watch enthusiast looking for watch potency is complicated by the fact that his Inner Watch Minimalist is at war with his Inner Watch Adventurer, the part of him that has an undying curiosity for new watches and new experiences with watches, including the different effects diverse watches have on his wrist, and his curiosity leads to accumulating more watches than he can wear. This results in Watch Devitalization, the weakening of the watch’s power, so to speak. In the case of Watch Devitalization, the enthusiast will sell a perfectly excellent watch, one he has arduously saved up for many years, sell the watch and then realize when the fever of Watch Devitalization has passed, that he has made a grave mistake. 

As we can see, the eternal battle between the Inner Watch Minimalist and the Inner Watch Adventurer guarantees that the watch enthusiast lives a life of perpetual agony.