Absolutely. I've just turned 31 and I would say my generation (or at least part if it) appreciate both being smart and also vintage items, with history such as watches, cars, jewellery etc. I don't think all the inheritance will be scrapped and broken down for parts just yet!!

 

Can you show us a picture ?

Ebay completed listings, Antiquorum (or other auction houses that show results on internet), forums, Chrono24, etc.
Of course, you cannot compile or reduce all the information you find to the correct price as a standard, but you can make yourself an idea.
It is actually a matter of supply and demand. The higher the demand, the higher the price, usually. When the condition is mint or NOS, the demand is definitely high. The same happens to BU coins compared to other grade coins.

For instance, i see the Speedmaster101 price guide shows $5500 for ref. 145.022-69 in Collector's condition - for April 2014.
Isnardi's price guide, shows 3000-3500 Euro for the same condition, although the prices are for 2006-2007.

However, i have to agree with pitpro when saying that it's hard to point a comparable sale.

Maybe the value starts the passion.
Some find watches simply as good investments... then the more you eat, the hungrier you get. This is when they get the fever.

We have a saying: one generation gathers the collection, the second preserves it and the third squanders the inheritance.

 

No, as it looks so fresh, I would think that we are still in 1971 and the watch is only two years old (and never worn). That's the reason for my reference to the moonlanding.

 

Money clips were out of style?
My sister-in-law used to tease me for carrying a handkerchief. Then a couple snotty-nosed kids came along and I'm the favorite uncle.

 

My father-in law passed on seventeen years ago. I just found the box cleaning. Yes, it is true our phones have replaced watches. I did try it on and felt like a million dollars, however I have a wrist like a noodle, and my husband is over sixty and likes simple pleasures like a 50's vintage Waltham.

 

I am interested in selling the Omega Speedmaster Professional to someone who will appreciate the artistic preservation of this timepiece.

 

Post it here in the classifieds for a fixed price.
If, by "artistic preservation" blah blah, you really meant "I want the most money I can get," put it on eBay.
Watching this carrot-dangling has become cumbersome.

 

There's something stinky in Parsippany

 

Just coming in now. This can be nothing else but a ST 145.022-69, still with bezel from the 60´s. I doubt that the museum is interested, they have tons of Speedmasters and this ref is probably not prestigious enough.

 

This is a nice enough package that many non-hardcore collectors would be interested. Hell, I don't even like Speedmasters but I'm curious what it would sell for. If the desire ever overcomes me, this is one I'd even buy - although the older straight lug models with 19 mm lug widths are more my style.

 

Dear Mrs Keleden; now we're all eager to see the For Sale ad in the Sales section of this fine Forum!

 

Still doing my DD. A possible listing this weekend. Thanks for the help and advice.

 

If that is the case, I suggest you sell it here. Best of luck to you.

 

I agree, my 31st birthday will be on April, 29. And I am proudly wearing my own Speedmaster, I hate mobiles and similar stuffs - although have to use them. My grandfather left me a beautiful Seamaster Cosmic, bought in the late Sixties - I wonder if anything I bought today will last so much, too. But I am quite sceptic - no Ipad will survive...

 

I think you should keep it. Pass it on to your children or grandchildren. I have my father's 145.022-69 which I cherish.

 

What happened in October 2008?