What is collecting?

This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which I cannot explain. We are all seeking ecstasy – one watch at a time.

In an attempt to understand the concept of “collecting”, I fell into a rabbit hole and found myself reading academic papers on the subject, trying to make sense of it all. I revisited this 2 years later, and what you will read below is a collection of ideas from the papers referenced below, as well as several other publications which are linked in the t…