My Patek Dilemma

[kunlun]

Wow, some real respective shown in this thread!

[Time Exposure]

I was preparing my response as I read the original post, but the advice here is sound, and echoes my philosophy.
It took me 30 years of buying/selling/trading/adding cash to acquire my grail. When I finally reached the ridiculous sum, I was okay with it because it was honest fun money specifically earmarked for watches.
Now that I have the grail (which I do not want to trade or sell to "upgrade"), I have started again. A $700 Hamilton chrono followed my Nautilus 5980 chrono purchase. Now I have Swiss auto chrono book-ends!

[lapince]

see it as investing, if you buy right it will almost loose no value, I just sold for 25K euros my 5712 that I bought brand new 1,5 year ago for 25.2K euros, I got it BNIB, sold it mint, so I lost 200 euros and had a watch I loved for that time, do it you won"t regret man

[blah114]

An update to this thread. I've not bought an AP or Patek.... to me, they're not worth the money. That's me. I did buy a deep blue,though , because I know I'll get my money back if I sell it years from now. Plus I enjoy wearing it.

I tried on a nautilus and it looked very outdated, stuffy, and downright ugly. My wife didn't like it. Her comment was it looked like a used 1970s watch ... she said to get a master control instead or a vacheron overseas used for less. Methinks the customer market has driven patek pricing up.... out of my reach financially. this is me, just my opinion! I have the money but can't take the 20k leap for a time piece

I tried on a callatrava also but prefer my existing vcacheron historque over,it. It's paid for,

[Tourbeon]

Originally Posted by blah114

she said to get a master control instead or a vacheron overseas used for less. Methinks the customer market has driven patek pricing up.... out of my reach financially. this is me, just my opinion! I have the money but can't take the 20k leap for a time piece

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I have been eyeing the overseas for a while. The pre owned VC is very reasonable at the moment.

[blah114]

Originally Posted by Tourbeon

I have been eyeing the overseas for a while. The pre owned VC is very reasonable at the moment.

The NEW overseas is stunning. Also, I'm seeing jlc master controls for 3500$ usd which is absolutely insane. That's a 7000$ watch easily..... the movement and craftsmanship are amazing, I was,told jaeger s service has suffered a lot and their reputation is a bit tarnished for now, I wonder if vacheron has suffered as well, being all owned by the same company bowl