Famous singer-songwriter John Mayer finally spoke about his real obsession -- his obsession with watches. In a tell-all interview with The New York Times, Mayer admitted that his love for watches started when he was young.
He said that his first watch was a Armitron that has a "Star Wars" theme with images of C-3PO and R2-D2.
"When you're a kid, you don't have much, so you are building these imaginary, macrocosmic worlds out of these really small things...I remember looking at it, and it was my friend...It was one of the biggest things I ever owned in my life, if you were to amortize it in terms of where you were in your life and what it meant to me," NY Times' Alex Williams quoted Mayer as saying.
Asked how much his entire watch collection would cost, the singer revealed it's worth "tens of millions."
If you want to get a glimpse of Mayer's watch collection, you can visit Hodinkee where some of the singer's favorite pieces were featured. Plus, here is a video from Hodinkee featuring Mayer and his watches:
"John is as serious a watch lover as anyone I've ever met. In fact, he's downright obsessive. And while Patek and Rolex might dominate his internal narrative these days, he loves all watches, from top to bottom," Hodinkee's Benjamin Clymer described the singer.
For Mayer, everybody is "born a watch person." "Even if you don't own a watch for a while, you either get it or you don't...you take it home and you study and you wear it, and the first thing you notice is, 'Whoa, this thing is heavy'...You've never felt weight shift like that on your wrist. It's heavy in weight, but it's also heavy in the sense that all these pieces are working together. It's what I call the 'density of design'," Mayer told the New York Times.
In the interview, Mayer shared that his first ever "real" watch was a Rolex Explorer II which he got after getting his first check for his 2001 album"Room for Squares."
"It's a watch I identify with, that people identify with me...Now, all it does is tell the time and the date, that's it. But, man, how it does it," Mayer told Williams.
The singer also talked about the recently released Apple Watch and what he thinks about it.
"We're all going to end up with the Apple Watch, I don't care what you say...I think it's a cool device, but there's got to be another place to put it. I can't give up precious wrist space for an Apple Watch," he was quoted saying in the New York Times report.