W72
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First, a warm welcome..
to this forum. It is a good question that you've asked. However, I do not think there is a good answer.
Value as you have suggested is measured through dollars and cents but for any hobby, in this case could be call as an affliction, is more than monetary. I have asked similar question to myself numerous time and question my rationality whether I should spent hard earned cash on these "play things". In the end, I can only tell myself that the money that I have is just a number in the bank book. Until and unless I spent it, it has literally no "value". So when I weight different watches with widely different price - I would add the emotional factor into the equation. I would ask, how much I enjoy owning and wearing the watch? And more critically, would I be a happier person when I have this particular watch over the other one. I know this is subjective and would get different responses from different people with different priorities in life.
Yes, my thought process is indeed muddle and could be just an excuse to buy things that I do not really need. But then, one can survive with little and do without these calatrava, AP, Breguet etc., and just a simple quartz watch, or better still rely on the mobile to tell time. So if the Calatrava is what you like and you do believe it is something that you will pass on to someone you love later and it would mean something to you when doing this - then the Calatrava would have that value. If, you feel the same with a less expensive watch - then by all means do that. One thing for sure, the Euro15,000 watch cannot be twice as accurate, its workmanship twice as good (if this is quantifiable) to a Euro7,500 watch. It is perhaps the reason why I spent many time more the dollar value (over the original price) on servicing a watch my brother gave me - there is something else associated with the watch that makes it "worth" it.
This is just my take of your question. Do inform us what you do eventually. Best of luck.
W72
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