New Delhi, March 14 -- Being a watch aficionado is all well, but there is one small quirk that separates the enthusiast from the watch nerd, and that is the love for nicknames. I have loved to wear watches all my life, but a few years ago, when I got in the weeds with watch fandom, I was stunned to realise that people love giving nicknames to watches, especially specific models.

Now, some of them are quite straightforward, like shortening the Omega Speedmaster to "Speedy", but then again, there are specific Speedies with different nicknames, like the Ed White. That one is a specific reference of the Speedmaster (ref. 105.003) that was worn by the US astronaut Ed White during a spacewalk in 1964 with NASA's Gemini IV mission. In fact, whe...