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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 price they'll get as their obsession. True watchmakers, as you know (and you know several of them), are passionate, and they would continue making watches even if it didn't bring them much money. The same is true of authentic artists, in my opinion.
That's why these two markets don't really interest me.
That's just my feeling, of course, and as you say, it's great that the discussion is open and everyone is expressing their ideas.
Best, Emmanuel
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 ...
Collecting stuff
Every watch and clock I have in my small collection (35'ish ++) was acquired because I admired/wanted to own and wear it. Be it the rare steel Rolex ref: 1936 manufactured in 1936 with its original box seen in a Cheltenham jewellers, which I am wearing ri...
Some horology is truly hand crafted artistry, and some is mass-produced industrial design (possibly by hand) polished trying to be (rare?) art. I guess if a company makes **more than 5000***, it's probably.....
Mass-produced 'art'. Air is rare, as is the color green. Just because i say it is rare doesn't make 'rare' true. It might just be one, maybe two... or a Trilogoy marketing to sell 10,000+ products a year. jmho McDonalds used oil is collectable, too. Doesn...