If I forgot all the brags that he sprinkled in there, he has a pretty unique and interesting way of looking at collecting. His approach was very much that of an enthusiast - purchasing things that he liked, not what he thought would ascend in resale value. Refreshing. If I had a lot of disposable income, I would definitely collect ugly guitars.
I get you, but you've got to remember with Hankins that he's an ADHD-driven impulsive retard, so read all of his post-hoc justifications with skepticism.
The very first thing he did was buy the common hype pieces that one hears about the second they dive into this: Rolex Datejust, Omega Speedmaster, Cartier Tank, Tudor GMT. All of these brands make cool models (I really like some Tanks and Datejusts, too) but Brian went straight for the most generic, uninspired ones that could be bought immediately.
He's also constantly boasted that all of his watches come straight from retail and that he wouldn't ever buy another man's watch. That is why he pissed away 100 grand so quickly, and why he ended up with so many pieces of shit after that. He had no other option.
Annoying as it is, you simply cannot walk into Rolex and buy the models you like. You have to wait and jump through hoops. It takes a long time for allocations to come in and they make you build up a spend history. This is fairly common for all of the top brands with desirable pieces. Brian wanted immediate gratification and he desperately needed to have the biggest collection going in order to satisfy his ego, so he quickly bought every quirky and readily available shitter he could find in order to get his numbers up and make it look like he was a serious collector.
Now he's all over the internet challenging people to post their 'tiny' and 'common' collections. This is a competition to him. As I mentioned somewhere earlier, he literally could not even pronounce the word 'tourbillion' in a now-deleted Facebook video, and yet he's screaming at everyone that Rolex and Patek are shit and he's got a 'fucking tourbillion in grade 5 titanium.'
He was also constantly berating people on there for having small wrists, and telling them to buy food and lift weights when they were just trying to share their pieces with other collectors. The guy is an insufferable man-child. Hilarious that everyone turned on him once again and forced him to delete his account.
