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Comparable to art ?
Nycwatchguy is someone you can follow on IG, a really cool profile if you want to see top-tier watchmaking and not always the same Rolex, AP and Patek watches. The link below is an article he wrote about constantly rising prices and some extreme auction results. Take it for what it’s worth, it’s just one opinion, but I definitely thought it was worth reading. And certainly worth continuing the discussion here 🙂
What’s your opinion? Comparable to art? Is it actually still very cheap compared to that? Are these price increases only the beginning? …
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Comparable to art ?
Nycwatchguy is someone you can follow on IG, a really cool profile if you want to see top-tier watchmaking and not always the same Rolex, AP and Patek watches. The link below is an article he wrote about constantly rising prices and some extreme auction r...
Well, I don't know the Art market very well, or better said, I know nothing about it, but about watches, this article sums the " sum " of our discussions quite well, here.
Watches are not an investment in 90% of the cases. You just pay for what you really like, love, admire or dream about. That is the main and the only reason. The rest is like playing the lottery or at the Casino. The so called stars are going up and down i...
Except when I'm considering buying a watch, I'm not interested in watch prices, any more than I am in the price of works of art.
The art market, like the watch market, is a legitimate reality, of course, but it's disconnected from the core of both activities: artistic creation and watchmaking. A true watchmaker never makes a watch with the primary goal of selling it and with the pr...
And ...both the art and watch markets constantly evolve through changing trends
What is also comparable to me are the trends we see. In the art world, the top artists today are very different from those who dominated 20, 50, or 100 years ago. Artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , Yayoi Kusama , and Banksy are now worth millions and ...