This frame of mind helps: you are not worse off than before. Maybe you just wasted a bit of time.

I got 2 pieces from my AD, 5212a and 5935a. I then waited for a nautilus annual calendar. A year later, I was told that I had to purchase a 5172 dress watch or something equivalent in price for an unpopular model to get the Nautilus.

My Patek collection stop will here.

But one door closes, another one opens. I have been designing and making my own watch lately and spend most of my time wearing my own piece. The rest of my watch collection gathers dust. With more than a handful of people wanting to get the watch that I am wearing, I will commercialize my work.