Zongaman
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If you are collecting for sake of then
it works fine but if you are collecting to pass on to your children, then your rules don't work. Ebauch movements have been used by the best of makers and those particular watches are at the height of collectability. You've got to have a good eye for style, robustness of the particular brand, history included and the market fluctuations. But, it's not like picking stocks where a solid company is a solid investment. That seems to be your guide. Two cases in point - Patek makes movements in house, their 1463 has Valjoux and Lemania, it's worth collecting and has gone through the roof. Rolex makes their own movements but what about the 6239, 41, 6263, etc? The list goes on and on. Know your horology and it will serve you best.
Zongaman
My watch collecting rules
Dear everybody, I have earlier been discussing that for watch collecting I have made my own "Twelwe Rules". My intention is not to say with my own Rules that i.e. and old brand would be somehow better or more interesting than say Journe or Voutilainen. Ho...
Rules
I am sure most people have rules - whether explicit or not. I certainly have both types.
Wow, Doc
That is an impressive post, my friend... Damn, These are 12 strict rules. The challenge is quite easy for the 2 first Sub Groups: Dressy Watches: JLC new Master Ultra Thin, some VC, and PP Calatrava would fit the bill, even if I'm not sure that the VC and...
its good to have rules, but this seems a bit clinical and lacking in passion
i would never criticise anyones reason for buying a watch, but your rules do seem more of a clinical analysis with very little passion involved. i'm a firm believer that the love of watches is a passion and your rules mean that you miss out on some fabulo...
Rules,
Nicholas, Thanks for comments. Actually not so strict... Ulta slim dress watches: i have collected till now at least VC Patrimony in all three golds, one AP with 2003 cal., Chopard, Breguet have a nice one, one PP fits, Jaeger's 38 mm Ultra Slim. What am ...
I'm surprised by some of your choices
Regarding to your rules ... For example the new Panerais: The movements are not in house, but made by Valfleurier, so not a real manufacture, but more a Laboratorio de ideas. Can you elaborate? Best, nicolas
Nicolas, i was going to...
Nicolas, i was going to question the Omega Aqua terra, but didnt want to appear pedantic or rude. i'm just assuming it is an 8500 calibre built in-house and not any previous model based on an ETA 2892. best Graham
What happens if in order to comply with the rules you have to buy a watch you don't like?
I think it's a real risk, as once you have applied all the rules you will have relatively few candidates in any one category. You may be faced with a choice between buying something that you don't really like and buying nothing at all.
If you are collecting for sake of then
it works fine but if you are collecting to pass on to your children, then your rules don't work. Ebauch movements have been used by the best of makers and those particular watches are at the height of collectability. You've got to have a good eye for styl...
I too have twelve rules for my collection . . .
1. I buy what I like and will wear on a regular basis. 2. I buy what I like and will wear on a regular basis. 3. I buy what I like and will wear on a regular basis. 4. I buy what I like and will wear on a regular basis. 5. I buy what I like and will wear ...
they are the best 12...
they are the best 12 rules Craig :) my only real rule is 'there are no rules'. best Graham
Now that's 12 rules to follow!!!!
Not sure which is better, I think they are all number 1 in my book !!!!!!!!!!!! Zongaman
From the cynical p.o.v....
...of a formerly oppressed, disenfranchised and shallow Antipodean colonial, rules are singularly unattractive, and exist to be resisted. Indeed, it seems that the only rules with any regular application down here are either the Rules of Fight Club or (fo...
Rules...
Thanks everybody. It is really nice to see that some of you are reacting with passion. First of all, the only real reason for rules is that the rules excist in order to be violated. Nicholas recommended me the Lange Anniversary. It does not fit into my co...
wow, rules and rules... We only lived once... So,
I just bought everything that I like. I personally didn't care if in the next 100 years or so the company is still alive or not. I don't even know if my children or grandchildren or grand grand children will love collecting watch like me or not. I am not ...
I guarantee you will break them all....
....the day you fall for "that watch"... Its nice to have some rules to break though
I really don't see what's the point of having these rules
The reason I'm saying this is because it seems as if you've already broken the rules several times. So why really have them? You're always going to buy what you desire, and rules are meant to be broken, so why have these 12 rules? My 2 cents, Anthony
Great scott!
I once made rules like that. Wow. If rules are the framework that you live by..then I guess, for what its worth, these rules you made will work, and you will be happy!!! I tried, for myself, rules. I even wrote them and they were published sometime in 199...