I will now acknowledge that collecting watches isn’t your typical vocation, nor is having a watch collection a typical business model. Furthermore, and possibly of greater importance, I wholeheartedly concede that Mozifiheim is a funky-ass name, and that perhaps I could have gone without fabricating a name for my collection. Except I couldn’t.

This collection is not made up merely of the watches I have amassed throughout my journey as a watch enthusiast. I have studied the history of horology, written about it, and I give a great deal of thought to every watch purchase I make. So, while nearly all my timepieces have some meaning and significance, at least for me, you can nonetheless find the majority of these watches in the Current Collection section of the site, and they are potentially for sale.

More important are what I consider the Permanent Pieces of the collection. Those timepieces that are not for sale, under any circumstances, for any price. I should note that none of these timepieces have been made by Patek Phillipe, and that most of them hold insubstantial monetary value, but they all very much embody the marque’s immortal concept about (and I’m paraphrasing, of course) never really owning a watch, and merely looking after it for the next generation.

Which brings us to Mozifiheim. It is a compound, portmanteau word, composed from the family names of my wife’s parents and my parents. I have done my best to secure representative timepieces from each of the four branches of this family tree, going back as much as four generations. All in all, I’m currently the custodian for roughly a dozen timepieces that serve as the core, the foundation of the collection. Some are heirlooms, others originated with me, and each tells a story about my life and the lives of the family members that came before me.

Finally, and with all due respect to the idiom that “as to tastes, nothing is written”, this site will also feature original content where, alongside discovering and exploring my own preferences, priorities, and preconceptions, I will try to explain why some watches cost significantly more than others, determine in what sense they are objectively better, and understand the subjective impressions that different watches make. This last note, by the way, originated from an article I wrote for Grey Market magazine; you can check it out here.