Blind guy with an elephant knows that the holy grail was not produced in 1986 but in 1987 and 1988 and you have switched from rarity and numbers in existence ,which is the purpose of this thread ,to price and desirability and you swerve round the acknowledgement of the high numbers of 2998 still in existence
and despite the fact that I quoted Simon I live for a significant part of the year in the USA and amazingly notwithstanding your unsupported guess work the experiences of my American watchmakers agree with Simons contention wholeheartedly and although you are referencing the forum and Simon as a support for potentially skewed data sampling I suggest you chat to Tony Cole of STS who has a a massively higher exposure to the U.K. vintage watch population than Simon and who has arguably seen more 2998 s than anyone in the U.K.
And I am afraid you rather step on your own point if a watch maker is seeing a 1987 Watches with a limited production run of 1500 world wide and those watches sell for £17500 average and he’s seeing more than four times as many older Watches of a similar price point it’s is reasonable to assume that there is at least more than twice as many older Watches in existence [note I am discounting the necessary service requirement for the older watch despite the fact of them not being worn]
And finally your deprivation
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