So maybe i just have to hope for a barn find ...
I am sad today...
I've had a lot of enquires over things I've posted up as for sale on Instagram... nearly all from Italian dealers, who were very keen to tell me that what I had for sale was too expensive... and then when I looked on their sites, they had similar pieces for 2-3 times what I was asking.
You are totally right. But i.was just quite surprised to find some 2-3 years old FS ads asking really more realistic prices compare to what I can find today. As we all know that some reference ( eg speedmaster) have tremendously increased over the last years, i was asking myself if all market was following the same trends as soon as we are talking about low volume and special pieces. It seems that it is the case and not only for hot brand.
You are totally right. But i.was just quite surprised to find some 2-3 years old FS ads asking really more realistic prices compare to what I can find today. As we all know that some reference ( eg speedmaster) have tremendously increased over the last years, i was asking myself if all market was following the same trends as soon as we are talking about low volume and special pieces. It seems that it is the case and not only for hot brand.
Sure but those brands are discussed over and over on forums so we all know their price and rarity. Now, my point is more about less highlighted brand or watch which in fact are competing with the other in term of pricing even without being discussed so much.
But I think I have the answer to my first question and thanks all for your comments
Free translation: "I realize I have started a thread that is coming dangerously close to "outing" the less highlighted brands that I am pursuing and would like to shut this down immediately."
The experience of collecting for the past several years has been one of watching as one brand or model after another falls into the glare of internet scrutiny and out of the realm of reasonable prices. Even as we have posted to clarify variants, executions and frankens, we have stoked the fires under these prices. To paraphrase the great philosopher Homer Simpson "The internet - the solution to and source of all collectors' problems"
