Hey,
you would really help me if you could look at
www.vintage-portfolio.com and tell me which of the watches have "shitty" movements. I have a timegrapher at home and all of my watches are regulated to +-15 sec per day (or better). In the forum i read that accuracy is not enough as an indicator for a working/non working movement -
but i simply dont know better, have no other resources.
Another problem i am facing in this niche field is that watches cost me 250-300 euro, i advertise them for 500-600 Euro and sell somewhere in between. Advertised prices are not selling prices!!! - Today i sold the omega seamaster 18k gold with Crosshair dial for 1200 (1650 on the website!) - that's nearly a 30% cut!!
A full service costs 250-300 Euro which wouldn't just reduce "profit margins" - it would consume them up totally for most of my watches and make my business (and my work) fully redundant. (Please note that a service costs nearly the same, no matter if the watch is running +-15 seconds per day or +- 2 hours per day)
Moreover, i feel that my customers wouldn't "honor" the service - they aren't willing to pay more for the watch, at least not the full service costs but - on the other hand - they definitely do use the "service-argument" for haggling down prices. I also feel that they are fully aware that the watch will need a service "sometime" or that they dont care if a watch "runns a minute off a day" as "they dont wear it that often anyway".
As i said, i traded
around 300 watches in the last
2 years which means that i had 300 buy (i bought more than i sold) and 200 sell transactions and hardly ever had any complains. A few of my costumers are even collectors which come back every other month so i feel pretty confident that im doing a decent job. (I stated my collection with 1 watch in 2011)
If costumer response would be throughout negative i wouldn't do this job anyway - Its definitely not easy to sell a watch! - But i like doing this. That's why i do it.
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