Happy New Year all. In light of the fact that we've just started the new year, what do people have planned for their collection in 2019? More of the same? Focus in on on one particular model? Diversify into other references? Complete switch to another type of watch or brand? Personally, my buying has been all over the place for the last year or so. I started out around 5 years ago purely looking at Speedmasters but this gradually widened to include an interest in many vintage Omegas from the late 50's to early 70's. In the last 12-18 months in particular this has gotten slightly out of hand to the point where I've been buying watches simply because they're in excellent condition or have an uncommon dial configuration - even if I know I will almost never wear them. In short I've become a 'collector' when I always said I was a 'wearer'. I've been aware of this for a while and have sold several watches that I bought like this but didnt wear. The problem was I just went out and bought more! So, 2019 is going to be the year that I refocus on watches that I enjoy and most importantly, will wear regularly. I'm going to keep one or two dressier watches, such as my Seamaster DeVille but on the whole I'm going to move back to the 50's/60's sport watches. With this in mind, my list for 2019 broadly includes; 321 Speedmasters Another 321/320 Chrono, ideally with the with the wide/flat pushers, such as the 101.010. Vintage Seamaster 300 Exotic dial Camaro 145.006 Seamaster Chrono 145.017 chrono Full size Chronostop with decimal bezel. Modern Railmaster or Explorer. I won't be able to get all of the above as a) funds won't allow it, and b) I'm looking for quality not quantity. Nevertheless, those are the ones I'm on the lookout for. So, what's your plan??
My plan is to sell watches I don't wear more than 2-3 times a year. I plan to get caught up on watch maintenance and make sure all are serviced and maintain a 5-7 year interval. I don't plan to buy any watches, but you know how that goes.
This year one target: SM 300 vintage. Funny to see these were sold a couple of years ago for $ 3000 in good condition. Market is a bit silly... And I would like to own a Zenith S.58 in good condition. But that's something for the future.
Limit acquisitions, enjoy my collection, service the ones for which I have no service history and sell a few. Not going to give them away though. I’m chucking my corporate job for semi retirement and part time consulting In April.
My plans are to trim my collection to a more manageable number, and consolidate. That's what I said last yr too. Fat lot of good it did me!
Hi, my plan for 2019 its to continue to buy omega vintage. This small chapter will present you some of the most significant watches we have in the collection Black dial And my favorite omega vintage, constellation pie pan
I promised myself at the end of 2018 that I will not buy another watch FOREVER, but I should be more realistic. I was able to nab my Speedmaster Pro Quartz grail through OF and managed to get the G-Shock Optimus collab right before the new year started. I think I am leaning towards selling some watches. It's quite interesting though, I never considered that as an option in my few years of collecting but I am now seeing watches not being worn and it doesn't help I have a solid line up of Speedmasters that I always wear. Also having a new job that allows me to work remotely means even fewer chances to rotate watches. We shall see...
The plan for 2019 so far, Is to purchase a holy grail... Which is on its way to me Vi FedEx. That said, and with the amount of money committed to it; I intend to try more microbrands and lesser known vintage brands. Microbrands for 2019, - Autodromo, specifically the group B on bracelet - Mkii Hawkinge Lesser known vintage brands include -GP -enicar -Certina That's the game plan so far but as far as I know and the friends who know me, I rarely stick to the game plan.
I've serviced my manual wound watch collection in 2017-2018. I haven't yet done an automatic so that will be my goal of 2019. Automatics are a bit more involved than manuals so I've been holding out automatics until I've gained good experience servicing manuals. I have about a half-dozen or so. Here are a few: I'll start with my Dad's Solar watch, which was sold by the Eaton's department store in Canada in the 1960's.It has a 25 jewel A Schild 1903 movement. Apparently these were quite decent movements so I'll give this guy some TLC it deserves. One specimen I'm looking forward to service and wear is this 14765 Seamaster, and one of my first purchases, a 167.005. I'll finish with one of my nicest watch, a 14900-62 I won on eBay last summer.
I'm going to watch ebay with no particular plan. If something really appeals and the price is right, I'll buy it. That might not happen as I've become very picky, in which case I'll just enjoy the watches I've been fortunate enough to acquire over the past several years.
My 4-point plan for 2019: 1. Buy my first GMT, 2. Buy the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Speedmaster … if doable, 3. Upgrade my 145.012-67 to - or just buy - a "Sp101 Good" 105.012-65, 4. Change any part of the above plan as necessitated if anything really interesting shows up in the Sales section
Buy anything in the Steel professional range from Rolex that's released at Basel and sell as quickly as possible for maximum profit
I’m going to try and behave and mostly just service some watches that are overdue. But best laid plans...
I am going to get rid of watches I am not wearing often enough. Already started with selling my last vintage Ultraman full set Going to consolidate and refocus as I’ve been buying too many different things Omega lately. My motto will remain less quantity and upgrade. Maybe 2019 will be the year where I will finally manage to source a nice AP 5402, let’s see. Would also love to find a nice A386 as well as a 2446 Jochen Rindt. So maybe a bit less of Omega this year and a bit more of the vintage best of breed from other brands... the opportunities will drive it