Just curious: why can’t one do a careful assessment of the market, like with stocks, bonds, real estate, cars, antiques, and decide to buy a watch as an investment? That fact that it’s functional, and can be a pleasing, aesthetic tool is a bonus.
You can certainly do this, actually you can do whatever you want with your watches, but I still find it boring to discuss this aspect of watches.
Just curious: why can’t one do a careful assessment of the market, like with stocks, bonds, real estate, cars, antiques, and decide to buy a watch as an investment? That fact that it’s functional, and can be a pleasing, aesthetic tool is a bonus.
Just curious: why can’t one do a careful assessment of the market, like with stocks, bonds, real estate, cars, antiques, and decide to buy a watch as an investment? That fact that it’s functional, and can be a pleasing, aesthetic tool is a bonus.
know what else isn’t an investment? Cars
when I think about buying a car, is it boring to consider depreciation and resale value?
are we or aren’t we talking about commodities here
While buying watches suffers from get rich quick scheming, sometimes people use the term investments when they simply mean getting a good value or deal. That goes hand in hand with collecting. How many times have people referred to the Speedmaster 101 chart of values? And the watches bought cheap at an estate sale? Or finding good values on ebay? Does that warranty comments on why watches are not investments?
IMO there’s nothing wrong with a discussion of buying well, and it happens here all the time and people do not complain or call it boring. It happens a great deal in the vintage section, where people offer their thoughts on prices pretty regularly.
But that is very different than talking about buying a watch purely as an investment, asking what watch will gain the most, etc. That is what I personally find boring, and I’m not uncomfortable saying it.
I think there’s a bit of a divide I’ve seen on forums. While it’s certainly not universal, people who entered the watch collecting world in the last few years tend to either be more interested in, or more tolerant of the investment type discussions. People who were in the collecting world before the market went crazy are generally less interested or tolerant of it. I suppose it’s human nature that people don’t like change, and I think most collectors who have been involved for many years don’t see these discussions as a good change, as it detracts from the actual watch talk.
YMMV...
I love my new ed white but I think it's a niche product that will never have Daytona hype and that's absolutely perfect!
Considering it is great. Discussing it, which is what he said was boring, is a different thing. And I agree, the discussion is boring and seemingly ubiquitous...
OP’s post and this thread wasn’t about investments
I would highly recommend a STRONG buy on the stainless steel 321 Ed White.
Due to the long waitlist and demand for this model, sooner or later, it might potentially be a direct competitor with Rolex Daytona. This part only time will tell.
