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You are to be congratulated
for your commendable willpower!
This is beyond crazy!! :-)
By: sham1 : May 26th, 2020-23:18
While confined to the home, like many of you, I have decided to browse the various online watch auctions currently in progress and was especially bemused to see the famous cork box offered with early Nautilus models currently at HKD 95,000 whereas a beaut...
Everything you have displayed
By: sham1 : May 27th, 2020-18:29
is worth a lot of money compared to boxes from most other brands but it is unlikely they will be worth more than a minute repeater. I expect to see counterfeit cork boxes to hit the market soon! Apart from face masks and ventilators, this is the next big ...
Exactly!!
By: sham1 : May 27th, 2020-07:40
Each to his own. I know some people collecting the Patek limoges plates and I too find them very attractive but would not really pay much for them. But surely collecting Patek minute repeater pocket watches would be more fun than cork boxes or am I missin...
You have a point!
By: sham1 : May 27th, 2020-07:03
But I would like to think that even if there was no Nautilus Pandemic, our hobby would be anything but boring especially as there has never been a greater selection of watches available to the end customer.
Agreed!
By: sham1 : May 27th, 2020-18:21
But I would say that we all value watches differently according to our own individual preferences. However, here we are comparing a box against a minute repeater, two quite opposite ends of the scale in my opinion. There is of course nothing that stops an...
Absolutely!
By: sham1 : May 27th, 2020-07:17
Limited supply and an overwhelming demand for anything related to a Nautilus. And a lower demand for a Patek minute repeater. The irony of it all is that price of a used cork box may only be marginally lower than a new Nautilus 5711!!
Looking this up online...
By: jleno : May 28th, 2020-21:30
It seems that roughly 30 grams of gold from a standard pocket watch can be expected. At $40 per gram for 18k gold, that would give a value of $1.2k. Platinum is supposedly 34% heavier than 18k gold, but it's worth only $27.4 per gram, so it actually comes...
All is not lost!!
By: sham1 : May 28th, 2020-21:38
Well done on your thoroughness of obtaining the information. So all you need to do is to buy gold watches costing USD1k or less and you will be on your way to a VIngt 8!! It just shows actually the amount of money being made by watch companies selling wat...
Historically,
By: sham1 : May 28th, 2020-21:56
platinum has always been more expensive than gold and had been priced accordingly by watch companies. Gold however has witnessed a steep rise in its prices over the last few years but watch companies have not passed on the cheaper watches made in platinum...