cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
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I think keeping a watch a year or two and selling is NOT flipping, especially if you don't love it
Jun 08, 2019,07:02 AM
For instance, I bought a Grand Seiko high-beat 18 months ago. It was beautiful but didn't fit my wrist well, and I just didn't like it. Nothing against GS, or the individual watch - but we didn't click. I held on, thinking I'd get to love it, but I didn't. So I listed it for sale, sat on it for a few months, and one day a guy called, all excited, and bought it. I got 90% of my money back and it was Good Deal for him.
However I have flipped some used watches within a month or less, only when I bought it unseen and untried, then was shocked at the weight, height, or whatever. WRONG for me, off to someone else.
I did once get a SS Daytona from a local watch repairman for $9k as part of a more involved swap including a ATMOS clock. But I didn't really like it, held it a couple years, and rolled it over into my GO Chronometer.
A year or so is fair for everyone, I think -- you can't keep every watch forever. Although now that I consider it, I've had my one Patek about 10 years. I need to rethink that...
Cazalea