Vintage lady watches market

HPFarabutto

I bought just one month ago a vintage seamaster 120 31mm ref 566.007. I think is very nice and in a good condition (just a normal service was needed). I think it is a good start for a lady that want a nice watch and a good step too for one who want to introduce his lady to the vintage watches world. You can spend with her many hours drinking red wine and talking about the applied logo that your moon unfortunatly doesn’t had, about the long r and s, the long “indici” (sorry I don’t know the english for this word) on the dial. Those are just the premises. My though at this point is: consider that ladies are more than men and so the market should have be bigger, that men love (or are forced to love) to make gift to their ladies, why (maybe fortunatly) lady watches are less evaluated? Not only speaking about price but also for example about “prestige”. Am I wrong?

cristos71

There is virtually no market in vintage watches for women, probably less than 1% of vintage watch collectors are women and most women although they may appreciate a vintage watch will prefer to own a new one.

If my better half is anything to go by they may enjoy wearing a vintage watch but that is different to going out and buying one. I'd also say that most vintage ladies watches are probably actually bought for them as a present by someone elase

cristos71

Simple supply and demand. Using the SM120 as an example, there are way, way more men looking to buy a SM120 at any one time than there are women looking for the lady's version.

It actually surprises me the prices that are asked for these women's watches sometimes although I have to say that your E1400 for a 31mm version strikes me as slightly optimistic. I'd put it more around the E750 mark