Reply With QuoteNice gold PP with a smiley face. BB heritage red with the spare change.
Criteria:
Must be easily attainable i.e. no crazy vintage numbers which come up once in a blue moon!
To be kept for minimum of 10 years i.e. something you'd be happy to live with, in terms of being sensible financially but also stuff you'd be happy wearing for 10 years.
I like a Rolex sports watch (I know, yawn) so I'd probably go something like:
Daytona, white. 2010ish. £7.5k
New GMT BLNR. £6k
Explorer II, black. 2007ish. £4k
PAM 88, new ish. £5k
Tudor Black Bay. £2.5k
I'd be happy wearing all of those and they all seem decent value so think I'd probably see most of the money back in 10 years.
Seen examples of each of those around those prices recently. Be interested to see what people come up with!
All purely hypothetical obviously!
Cheers,
Lee
Nice gold PP with a smiley face. BB heritage red with the spare change.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
This De Bethune...
http://www.chrono24.com/en/debethune...acturerIds=414
a PP nautilus 5712/1A for @ £20K
Then keep the 5K for a nice expensive beater
I've been doing my homework and it appears I can't get my smiley face one for 25k so I will have to go back to the drawing board.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
A newer car!
M.
A good contribution to a house renovation
I think your criteria of actually wearing the watch(es) for the 10 year period changes things a little bit. Also, are we factoring in a service cost for each piece too, because 5 x Rolex service = £££££!
I think I'd have to go with the predictable PP - any model as close to £25k as possible, and worn very carefully!
A single well chosen watch (with a single service) should do better than a clutch of Rolex (+ service).
Last edited by ach5; 5th June 2015 at 10:41.
Hi Lee,Originally Posted by redrum
The GMT and the Explorer II are a little samey to my eyes. You couldn't be tempted by one of the sportier offerings from JLC? Or possibly a Glaschutte just to add a little variety to the mix?
SGR
PP Nautilus Chrono S/H
A PP Calatrava would do just fine.
For me, a Lange moonphase in 38.5mm at £19k and a JLC Master Calendar at £4.5k. Leaves you with £1500... Currently wearing an 80s DateJust which cost almost exactly that and I couldn't recommend it highly enough!
If still building a collection, I would choose PP over ALS first. The Nautilus variants are great; they hold their money and can be worn with a suit or in the pool.
this ....5712 + GMTc
Tag Monaco V4 Phantom.
Slightly over budget by £8000 so I'd have to haggle.
PP Aquanaut - and buy the bracelet so that it can be dressed up for a suit when needed. Something about that watch just speaks to my soul
Rolex SD 4000 2014 - £6900.00
JLC Memovox tribute to deep sea - £6500.00
Seiko SKX007 - £130.00
Rolex Explorer 1016 - £7000.00ish
Jack Heuer LE Thingy - £4000.00
+1 for the nautilus.. A truly beautiful watch. That and a non chrono Royal oak would make my collection completePP Aquanaut - and buy the bracelet so that it can be dressed up for a suit when needed. Something about that watch just speaks to my soul
Some good ideas coming through, there's a definite lean towards a nice PP and rightly so. My thinking was a small collection rather than a single watch though, sorry for not being more clear :-)
So with that said, I'm going to add another item to the list of criteria:
Must consist of at least 3 watches.
Also following these 2 sensible suggestions, I'm going to swap my Explorer II and Tudor out for a JLC Memovox tribute to deep sea. £6.5k
So now I've got:
Daytona, white. 2010ish. £7.5k
New GMT BLNR. £6k
PAM 88, new ish. £5k
JLC Memovox tribute to deep sea. £6.5k
I better get saving!
I'd want to be entertained during the 10 years too so I'd set about building a single minded collection. Probably shrouded divers.
Gray
SS 5712 - 20k
Sea Dweller 16600 - 4k
Leonidas/other cheap vintage triple date - 700
Vintage Omega dress - 300
Sorted
Ok, to go for a selection of watches then:
PP Aquanaut 5167 - £13250
Rolex GMT BLNR - £6000
Omega Speedmaster - £2500
A Speedmaster "beater" - we can all dream :)
Omega Big Blue, £4k
Blue/black GMT 2C, £5.8k or so.
Heuer Autavia 2446 Rindt, £6k.
Tudor Snowflake, £3k
I think I'd then have to mull it over and buy something from SC with the change.
My current Grail the Lange datograph (old model in platinum) could probably be had for that money if you look around a bit. Either that or we start looking at interesting variants from the independents.
But if you're building a collection, so many options for that money....
£25k...right now I'd buy a used VW Touareg!!
But, if it's definitely only watches, it would have to be a PP5712 or maybe a PP3712 and a Daytona if the pennies would stretch that far.
25k you say?
Why, I'd still be pretty tempted by one of these, although I'd prefer one made by Christiaan rather than the new bunch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgv4mtIWDkU
Used Porsche Boxter Cabriolet
Or a Patek Nautilus 5711, which would still leave you with around 10K spare for another watch. Also a big fan of the FP Journe Chronometre Bleu
I was going to, but finally tried one on - for me the rotor bearing noise/feel really put me off. I know that ceramic bearings don't need lubrication, but I just couldn't live with it.
A meters first Gilt 5513 and a Double Red 1665.
These will only go up in value and you have the pleasure of wearing something a bit special
If you want to waste money buy something new .
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
5711. 5524.
£25K to burn on watches? Can I send you my resumé? I can do your landscaping, topiary, clean your pool, polish your Rolls, clean your stables, service Mrs. Redrum... in short, any disagreeable task that you don't want to mess with, I'm your man, sir!
This one
Then buy a Rolex GMT Pepsi!
Patek 5711
GO Panoinverse
Sub LV
SeaDweller
It's just a matter of time...
A used white gold sub for around £15k and a used AP ROO of some sort.
If it "has" to be spent on watches
or
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
Not a watch, that's for sure
If it "has" to be spent on watches
or
Beat me to it; this would be my preference, too.
A nice condition IWC Mk XII, and keep the change.
Oh yes I've already got one, so that's quite a lot of change as it goes.
Smooth choice25k you say?
Why, I'd still be pretty tempted by one of these, although I'd prefer one made by Christiaan rather than the new bunch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgv4mtIWDkU
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Love the watch with the planets on it, but this has to be one of the most pointless functions ever made.
Uranus was discovered in 1781 and will complete its third orbit in all that time in 2033.
Neptune was discovered in 1846 and in that time is yet to complete a single orbit.
Don't expect the outer dots to move much in your lifetime.
Rolex DRSD for me in answer to the original question.
Easiest question, 5146g. Basically, the only reason I need £25k
Comex SD or a white gold Pepsi GMT
This:
The latest and greatest from Rolex. With a bit of haggling there may be cash left over for a Yachtmaster too, as a holiday watch.
Commex SD for £25k - you'd be lucky. I think you would have to pay at least double, if not more.
Hell you crack me up. You should be on the stage young man
I think you'll find the outer planets are Jupiter and Saturn. Unless the solar system only has 6 planets?
I'd suggest you watch the video
And yes, the whole complication is pointless. Which is missing the point.
Last edited by Wexford; 6th June 2015 at 00:48.
Excellent, a planetary watch with only half the planets. The same as having a normal watch without an hour hand.
Even more pointless.
Last edited by Wallasey Runner; 6th June 2015 at 10:51.
Lol, brilliant.
So, as Pluto is no longer designated a planet, then that would be four, yeah?
And you can clearly see there are six, with the last two missing for the exact reason you stated earlier.
I'm guessing from your reaction that you're not a big fan of mechanical movements? More of a Quartz man, right?
Building on that logic.
Moonphase watches = pointless, unless you're a werewolf
Perpetual Calendar = pointless , you should be able to remember the month and year, at least
Any Dive watch rated over 300m = pointless, unless you're a whale
Etc and so forth.
I'd be interested to see from the members here, irrespective of styling, brand or case material, who doesn't think a working version of our solar system's most relevant planets travel around the sun, accurately represented in a mechanical watch is amazing and cool?
Probably many of you, to be honest, but it's this sort of mechanical engineering that got me into horology in the first place.
Last edited by Wexford; 6th June 2015 at 11:18.
It may surprise you, but my daily beater is a Rotery moonphase watch - which does have a quartz movement run by a battery.
My decent watch is a DRSD.
Not sure what either say about me, not given it much thought really.
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In an effort to put this thread back on the rails, I could probably bring myself to buy one of these too, pointless though it is...
http://www.chrono24.com/en/hmosercie...acturerIds=379
Last edited by Wexford; 6th June 2015 at 12:11.
What does the "up & down" thing do - is that like the 12 is at the top and the 6 is at the bottom so you know which way round you are, unless of course you are doing a hand stand.In an effort to put this thread back on the rails, I could probably bring myself to buy one of these too, pointless though it is...
http://www.chrono24.com/en/hmosercie...acturerIds=379
Lovely looking watch, but it seems things are being added for the sake of it rather than serving any practical purpose.
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