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Evitzee said: ↑
People have been predicting what Rolex would do for as long as I can remember and the predictions never come true. Rolex is gonna do what Rolex is gonna do. Resistance is futile, go with the flow.
this is factually wrong. he nailed his predictions last year with what rolex would come out with and he probably has a source inside rolex.
as to whether the money ruins the watches and his predictions about values . . the values these watches trade at are just an observable fact. yes it would be nice and quaint if they traded at a price that everyone could afford like the good old days, but that is not the case.
do you really expect people spending 50 or 100k or 1mm on a vintage watch to not care about future values ?? that's not how the world works. there are plenty of corners of the vintage world where everyone can afford great watches but vintage rolex isn't likely to ever be one of them again
Weren't these the same clowns implicated in all the dodgy Daytona’s in that joke of a Phillips sale?
Their passion is strictly limited towards bumping up the Frankens and “prototypes” their Italian friends have put together.
manual wind daytonas are down 20% off the peaks.
This question never goes down well in hobbyist’s forums. I’m sure they all talk like that in the collector’s forums though.
I’m relatively new to watch collecting, and until very recently, I was also fixated on the future value of the watches that I was considering. Now, I’ve come to the epiphany that if I’m focusing on the future value of these watches, I really can’t responsibly afford to purchase them. The idea that these watches are somehow investments is a very dangerous one, especially to those who are stretching their budgets impossibly thin to acquire them.
If in the future I sell a watch for more than I paid, I’ll consider myself very lucky. These are purely pleasure, nothing more. If I ever catch myself considering their future value, I will stop myself from purchasing them.
The focus on price predictions is going to hurt a lot of people.
um. the quote was
Evitzee said: ↑
People have been predicting what Rolex would do for as long as I can remember and the predictions never come true. Rolex is gonna do what Rolex is gonna do. Resistance is futile, go with the flow.
this is factually wrong. he nailed his predictions last year with what rolex would come out with and he probably has a source inside rolex.
as to whether the money ruins the watches and his predictions about values . . the values these watches trade at are just an observable fact. yes it would be nice and quaint if they traded at a price that everyone could afford like the good old days, but that is not the case.
do you really expect people spending 50 or 100k or 1mm on a vintage watch to not care about future values ?? that's not how the world works. there are plenty of corners of the vintage world where everyone can afford great watches but vintage rolex isn't likely to ever be one of them again
They guy forgot about the Sea dwellers.... it’s deems that STE not hot at all?
I think that the 50s and 60s Dates, and DateJusts will make a nice comeback, as we get a hangover from all the sports models hype. I would not mind a SS DateJust from the 60s with dauphin hands, and an interesting dial.
