Value development in long terms

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DM me for proven tips on retiring and living the life of your dreams that YOU deserve.
 
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This thing gonna return bigly in ten years, I’m talkin Uuuge
 
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My Nividia is only up 173% this year alone

my short invicta fund is up over 1,000,000% who says watches are a bad investment
 
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If I can sell a watch for what I bought it for, I'm happy. After factoring in service costs, straps, etc., it's a money losing proposition. I prefer stocks for making money.
 
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If I can sell a watch for what I bought it for, I'm happy. After factoring in service costs, straps, etc., it's a money losing proposition. I prefer stocks for making money.
Indeed that is also my view. Total cost of ownership. If I can cover or at least come close i am happy.
 
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By the way, I "reinvested" less than half of the income from the Rolex in a Fromanteel & Clarke double basket bracket clock (ca. 1705, made in The Netherlands, by one of the top 10 European makers of the era). I am not sure whether this was a "wise investment", at least a bunch of money is still left for buying e.g. stocks. But compare this clock with the workmanship of a modern Rolex, and you really start to wonder about collectors markets .... 😁

A Fromanteel bracket clock will turn up for sale maybe once every 10 years. Look how many Rolex GMTs are currently for sale....

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More ‘bite the dust’, which I think is an American cowboy film thing.

and Freddie Mercury 😜
 
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If I can sell a watch for what I bought it for, I'm happy. After factoring in service costs, straps, etc., it's a money losing proposition. I prefer stocks for making money.

Same. But, if I'm being honest, part of the reason I'm ok spending so much on collecting is because I can recoup some of my spending if I needed to, or if I lose interest in the hobby later.

At least, that's how I'll approach collecting until these things go the way of beanie babies.
 
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Why would you put your money into an account where you expect to earn interest over time, to find after years that your money hasn’t even kept up to inflation! Let alone grown! To sell a watch for what you paid means you’ve lost money on your investment! Not a prudent business transaction.
 
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A Fromanteel bracket clock will turn up for sale maybe once every 10 years.
Probably made within 10 mins walking of my house
 
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This thing gonna return bigly in ten years, I’m talkin Uuuge
That's beautiful. Perfect. Grown men cry when they see that watch. Big men. Strong men.
 
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Why would you put your money into an account where you expect to earn interest over time, to find after years that your money hasn’t even kept up to inflation! Let alone grown! To sell a watch for what you paid means you’ve lost money on your investment! Not a prudent business transaction.
If you're actually serious, you appear to be saying that watches are investments, collecting them is a business, and that your expectation is that one's hobbies should always be profitable? I wouldn't agree with any of those statements. If you've actually made a substantial profit being a vintage watch collector, I congratulate you. If we're being honest, I think that very few of us on OF do a great deal better than breaking even. I can think of far better and easier ways to make money.
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Several have suggested as long they can sell a watch for what they paid, it is a sound investment! Read my post again, and perhaps you might get the point I was making (apparently unsuccessfully in your view!). I quote myself:

To sell a watch for what you paid means you’ve lost money on your investment!
 
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Several have suggested as long they can sell a watch for what they paid, it is a sound investment! Read my post again, and perhaps you might get the point I was making (apparently unsuccessfully in your view!).
I understand exactly what you’re saying. All I said in my original post was that I’m happy getting what I paid for a watch. I can certainly sell my collection and get a sizeable amount of money in return. But watches as investments generally? Nope.
 
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Bernhard, I am English and have never heard that phrase used before! Is it a translation? I love it and am adopting it, thank you.
We use the exact same phrase in Denmark: Jeg måtte bide i græsset = I had to bite the dust.
 
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The last watch I sold, I got for free, and it was from my scrap bin. It needed work. $600.00 worth. I gave the guy the watch for free, and charged him $600.00 for the work I did on it. I was happy with the deal. He thinks he paid $600.00 for the watch! He loves it!
 
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My comments weren’t directed at your post. It was aimed at those who are actually satisfied that the watch was an investment when they can sell it for what they paid!
 
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My comments weren’t directed at your post. It was aimed at those who are actually satisfied that the watch was an investment when they can sell it for what they paid!
Maybe it’s not the “investment” part but the thought of breaking even after years of enjoying something. Tbh I’d probably consider myself lucky if I got tired of watches and came out even selling them off but I just buy watches I like don’t really consider the resale part.
 
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That's beautiful. Perfect. Grown men cry when they see that watch. Big men. Strong men.
The most perfect watch ever made, so they tell me- I wouldn’t say that but I hear people say that it is perfect, made of some super metal that’s impenetrable by space lasers or bad hombres- no, they can’t hurt that glorious watch. I would rather be wearing that watch that eaten by a shark- cause I don’t want to get anywhere near that shark or an electric car, coal power watches- but beautiful clean coal, you know they wash the coal with Dawn dish soap to get it clean, then they put it in the watch and it runs forever, don’t need a battery- just gleaming squeaky clean coal in the watch….
 
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I invest in my enjoyment when I buy a watch. What it may sell for at some undetermined later date is irrelevant to my purchase decision.