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So, you buy a watch for x dollars, own it for 10 years, and sell it for double what you paid. When you sell it, the buying power of the dollar you get for it is about half the buying power of the dollar you spent when you bought it. Can anyone tell me how that was a good investment? Investment value appears to me to be the pleasure you had from it while you owned it. Even if you sold it for what you paid after owning it for ten years, you lost about 50% of the original purchase price because of inflation.

I recently bought a gorgeous 18-size 1877 Waltham in a beautiful 25-year gold filled hunter case, for $50.00. It needed work, but I had the parts and serviced it myself. Offered for sale at the right time and in the right place, I figure it would have been a good investment. (Call me a bottom-feeder!)
 
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So, you buy a watch for x dollars, own it for 10 years, and sell it for double what you paid. When you sell it, the buying power of the dollar you get for it is about half the buying power of the dollar you spent when you bought it. Can anyone tell me how that was a good investment? Investment value appears to me to be the pleasure you had from it while you owned it. Even if you sold it for what you paid after owning it for ten years, you lost about 50% of the original purchase price because of inflation.

I recently bought a gorgeous 18-size 1877 Waltham in a beautiful 25-year gold filled hunter case, for $50.00. It needed work, but I had the parts and serviced it myself. Offered for sale at the right time and in the right place, I figure it would have been a good investment. (Call me a bottom-feeder!)
Bottom feeder lol
 
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I recommend that you see a financial advisor to help you plan for your retirement/ financial future. From my perspective watches were fun when I was working because I got to wear em. Now they are a pain in the rear to insure, service and store. They play zero role/impact on our retired financial life except that my wife gives me the stink eye when they come up in the asset discussion with our financial advisor.
They’re also a pain to sell. Inspections, write ups, pictures can get quite intense. The transaction cost is quite high in terms of work involved.

The idea of seeing a financial advisor is an excellent one. i was surprised to find how easy it was to switch gears once long term goals became obvious.
 
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I had such a great retirement party. I wore my new boutique exclusive Vacheron Constantin 1955 Cornes De Vache and 270th Anniversary LE Patrimony.
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The third golden retirement watch was my Santos, basically a pink, yellow, and white watch.

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I will miss this place. Especially racing.
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I was given so many gifts from the people I worked with. The three inch "America The Beautiful" independently certified high graded Yosemite National Park 2010 minted silver 5 oz George Washington bullion was a bit of a surprise. And, I received a very special "The Honda President's Award" pen.

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We build them, they race 'em.
"Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday" -- Honda Racing Corp.
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Happy Retirement! 7 years on, I don’t miss working. I do mostly miss the folks I worked with all over the globe though, they made my crazy job fun. Bumping into the occasional OF member was also a blast. I don’t miss the hectic travel and its impact on my health. Did a private equity consulting gig last November and instantly regretted saying yes. I realized that I’d sacrificed so much personal time in my career, that I can’t get back. Still looking for a non revenue volunteer activity besides my sailing beach advocacy. Having lots of hobbies, interests, community helps. Never stop learning.
 
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Happy retirement Seiji, you got some fabulous gifts, heartwarming to think people wanted to send you off in spectacular fashion!
 
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Syrte Syrte
Happy retirement Seiji, you got some fabulous gifts, heartwarming to think people wanted to send you off in spectacular fashion!
Thank you I owe all the people a lot! Each teammate worked endlessly so my team could support. They told me they decided on a lucky coin because a retirement watch/clock seemed redundant 😛 My teammates were mostly Indian so it it is a tradition to give gold bullion coins ( mostly for brides for her wedding) . They adapt the tradition for my retirement and made me one of there own so to speak.
 
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Happy Retirement! 7 years on, I don’t miss working. I do mostly miss the folks I worked with all over the globe though, they made my crazy job fun. Bumping into the occasional OF member was also a blast. I don’t miss the hectic travel and its impact on my health. Did a private equity consulting gig last November and instantly regretted saying yes. I realized that I’d sacrificed so much personal time in my career, that I can’t get back. Still looking for a non revenue volunteer activity besides my sailing beach advocacy. Having lots of hobbies, interests, community helps. Never stop learning.
Sounds like I could learn much from your lead. I have no plans yet. I figure I can decide later. 🤞
 
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Seiji Lépine Seiji Lépine
Sounds like I could learn much from your lead. I have no plans yet. I figure I can decide later. 🤞
Right … kick back and enjoy your liberation!
 
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I'm in here some place. This is only one division here. All divisions combined we're a small village.
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That's a big turnout just for one person's retirement!
😉
 
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Seiji Lépine Seiji Lépine
I'm in here some place. This is only one division here. All divisions combined we're a small village.
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That one division is already twice the size of my small village!
 
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That one division is already twice the size of my small village!
Damn! is that why my Honda cost so much lol.
 
Seiji Lépine
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That's a big turnout just for one person's retirement!
😉
Obviously no, this isn't for me. I was going through my pictures and found a 10 year old photo of the division I built products in. We were the biggest on campus that I think is about 3000 people at that time.

This was at one time the North American headquarters. We still support Canada, Mexico, and Northern Latin America and Caribbean countries.

The divisions here at the peak was Auto, Motorcycle, Finance, Auto LA Research, and Acura Design. The secret skunk works used to be here too where we built land speed records cars and motorcycles and Hollywood vehicles.

And my favorite, we support Disney and the Mighty Ducks👍

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This was one of the mods done for the 2026 Long Beach Gran Prix. And for a street car...these were fast! Lucky few (not me) got to ride at red line around the course as passengers with a pro race driver! Usual there are about 6 made. They also are official pace cars so they really need to get up to race speeds to get in front of on coming Indy cars.

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Tony Stark (Iron Man) drove this car. The funny thing is that it isn't an NSX. We hadn't built one yet. Hollywood/Acura magic

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The real NSX
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Seiji Lépine Seiji Lépine
Tony Stark (Iron Man) drove this car. The funny thing is that it isn't an NSX. We hadn't built one yet. Hollywood/Acura magic

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The real NSX
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So what is Tony Stark's NSX under the hood?
 
Larry S
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My buddy has the original NSX red/black interior. Stunning car. He can’t drive it without getting unsolicited offers to buy it.
 
Seiji Lépine
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My buddy has the original NSX red/black interior. Stunning car. He can’t drive it without getting unsolicited offers to buy it.

Yes! Apparently the 1990s NSX is now a very sought after collectibles if you find an original low mileage "Ferrari Killer".

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Look at this VIN. H4NA

It's the pre-production prototype (Dankaku Lot?)
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Seiji Lépine
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And if you think , "Ferrari...No Way🤣".

Well in 1990....
And you could maintain it yourself to 100,000 miles.
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