Trying to decide which is more essential my car or this? http://www.antiquorum.com/catalog/l...m_source=c24&utm_medium=dp&utm_campaign=apr16 Actually as is it too good and full of new lume and wrong parts?
I'm assuming this is an either or proposition, if that's the case then I can think of a few and very nice cars for that kind of money..
An interesting question for sure! Here in New York it'd be easy: The 2915, assuming it's original. Anywhere else where I'd need a car to get around though and my $150k is going into a nice old 911.
First of all, what kind of car are we talking about? I'm thinking this watch will sell for double the high end of the estimate listed on the website. So that must be one nice car for around $100,000.
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I'm with @abrod520 while many 911's are bubbled right now. A nice early car ie pre 73 can be sourced and should hold or appreciate in today's market. The new hotspot will be 76-80 cars as if the CA DMV changes smog exempt to those years those will spike at least 10k immediately. The biggest market right now is SoCal for 911's and as it stands those cars are worthless here. Currently a 81 modified with carbs which makes it unregisterable in CA takes a 10k price hit vs a stock FI CA legal car, even though modified car is a better car. In the 100k to 120k space I can think of a whole bunch of cars that will hold value well.
Who would pay $100k? Would @gemini4 even pay the top estimate for this one with wrong dial but nice bezel?
Any naturally-aspirated, manual-transmission 911 (that's not a 996) is a pretty good bet going into the future. Even more so if it's rear-drive. Me? My 150k's going into a 993 Turbo, with the rest spent on a commuter car and watches etc Which is of course a turbocharged, all-wheel-drive 911, but still a good bet because it's a 993
This watch smells, and I am a few thousand miles from it. I think the dial might be a modern, artificially aged dial. Look at the length of the sub dial indices, they are too long. Look at the colour of white markings....too white. Look how crisp the SWISS MADE is The dial plots and hand lume are too matchy matchy for me to think they have not been touched. All of the above is only my judgement.....and I could easily be wrong. But then you have to ask, why does AQ put such a low reserve - they clearly know, but don't say, that something is wrong. I would expect that bezel to be a repro too, but only because I kind of expect most of the ones coming on to the market now to have them.
@Spacefruit I remember one of the previous AQ rare Omega sales where the reserve was suspiciously low: https://omegaforums.net/threads/antiquorum-another-neptune-seamaster-cloisonne.2576/ Then I remember the other rare Seamaster Piepan with a suspiciously low reserve they sold: https://omegaforums.net/threads/seamaster-pie-pan-train-wreck.4565/
Agree with @Spacefruit - smells fishy. Also, the hands are replacement Broad Arrow's (ref 3594.50) which have been aged. The car is definitely the better option at this point!
I know this is the wrong Forum for this so please forgive me. For $150k. get on the list for one of Patek's super complications. For sure there will be no issues with it holding it's value
Buying a fast car in SoCal is pointless.....now a fast bike is a totally different deal. Buy a couple of nice bikes and laugh at the guys sitting in traffic in their 911s.