Horological Meandering

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...  

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... 

My thoughts exactly

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... 

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 ... 

But now there is in interest in the Nicole Nielsen made tourbillons he and his son bought in bulk for gifting

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... 

So we can’t solve the problem by selling to each other! Still, I’ve told my wife, “if I get hit by a bus, list the watches on WPS”

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... 

The watch nerds like us have an emotional investment in watches and will continue that course while the various manufacturers sell out to the investment crowd. We'll find other watchmakers and continue on while the noisemakers from social media move on an... 

I have a pleasure of knowing him. very smart, decent guy and watch nerd.

Let's just say that the sky is not the limit. The article, it seems to me, is relevant in the absolute top tiers of watch collecting, but does nothing to justify the pricing of serially-produced, commonly-available watches whose prices are set not by bidd...