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My watch collecting journey started in earnest in 2014 and over the last ~10 years I've accumulated a collection of watches that I am proud of with pretty much every "goal" watch I've wanted up to this point residing in my safe.

Over the last few months however I've looked at my collection of 10 watches and realized a few things:

- I don't cycle through these 10 watches and really only wear 3-4
- Unless I'm wearing a suit (rarely) I prefer wearing watches on bracelets
- Full yellow gold may be too loud for me (wife says so)
- I do love a Daytona
- Wife won't let me sell the 40th anniversary rose gold day date (wedding watch)
- I really want a Patek Nautilus
- I'm tired of having a lot of "stuff" just sitting around
- I may be a hoarder

With that in mind I'm considering a few alternatives to change up the collection and curious of your thoughts. The watches I'm considering parting with in the scenarios are a YG Daytona "Newman" Dial (116528), YG Oysterflex Daytona (116518ln), AP RO Silver Dial 37mm (15450), Vacheron FiftySix (Vacheron) and Rose Gold Cartier Santos de Cartier (Cartier)

Scenario 1:
Trade: 116528, 15450, and Vacheron (+cash) toward a Patek 5712
Keep: PP 5712, 116518ln, DD 228235, AP Rose Gold 38mm Chrono, Cartier, + Panerai and IWC that have no trade in value

Scenario 2:
Trade: 116528, 116518, 15450, Vacheron, Cartier (+lots of cash) toward a Patek 5712 AND Platinum Daytona 116506 Diamond Dial
Keep: PP 5712, Platinum Daytona, DD 228235, AP Rose Gold 38mm Chrono

Scenario 3:
Trade: 116528, 116518, 15450, Vacheron, Cartier (+lots of cash) toward a Patek 5740G
Keep: PP 5740G, DD 228235, AP Rose Gold 38mm Chrono

I know this is a lot of text but I've never really sold anything from the collection and value everyone's opinions here.