Just seen 2018 5167A on Watchfinder.co.uk at the eye-watering price of £27500. Obviously, this is only what they are asking but its a fair jump from 2018 one they had last month at £24500 which has obviously been sold!
https://www.watchfinder.co.uk/Patek%...91/item/129392
They even have an old 5065 from 2006 with no box at £23750!
Will the madness ever stop?
Who knows!
Surely WF are using these watches as px leverage and jumping on the people who trade 3 SS Rolex Sports for a Patek etc?!?! I genuinely can't see anyone walking into a store and paying £27500 for a watch that retails at £14500 nearly a 90% increase! Thats almost the same % increase as the 5711 blue!
It was never as popular in the past, and seen as a cheap Patek. Now of course there is no such thing as a cheap Patek. I’m not sure the same polarity in popularity still exists today.
Availability and deemed desirability have all affected the price on the used market - demand far exceeds supply, and the demand has increased substantially against a similar level of supply - so...
Its a great watch, I’m looking forward to picking mine up and a new style dial 5711, at some stage when my name becomes No.1 on the list - shouldn’t be too long now :)
The price increase on the used market is a nice to have, but it was never the reason I ordered any Patek in the first place.
It's just a matter of time...
I'm lucky enough to have bought my 5712A about seven years ago, before they became scarce. They are now nudging £50k on the secondary market.
I've never actually seen a 5712 in the flesh but I as a rule am not a fan of the date displayed like that. Would have much preferred the date to be at 6 beneath the moon phase a la 5726. Would I be correct in thinking the movement in the 5712 is the same as the discontinued Neptune?
27k is about right for retail, and they go instantly.
I keep having to remind myself that I buy what I like and sell when im ready having moved mine for 12.5k ish just over a year ago
When i put my name down for a 5711 I was offered a 5712 with a 6 month lead time, however I turned it down as I don't like the way the date dial cuts in to the indices.
they will all keep going up until they go pop. next recession, people getting bored, pp being sold off and steel ramp up, something like that will shock the system. until then up they go as more jump on the band wagon.
Almost certainly very true. Therefore it makes sense to buy them and keep them and pass them onto friends and family when you expire the mortal coil.
I use the same shotgun I bought forty years ago and yet I have friends who turn up with a different gun at every shoot. Buy it and keep it, you know it makes sense.
The 5712 is a bit of an anomaly for me - there is nothing about the feature that I like/need in a watch - sub dial seconds, I’d prefer centre seconds - exposed date wheel, NO! - Sub dials that eat into dial markers, WTF lazy designers - a bloody power reserve!!! There are no redeeming qualities in the features offered for my tastes and dislikes in general; but I love it lol
It's just a matter of time...
Crikey, all of those things are huge positives, in my book. I vastly prefer small seconds to centre seconds, I prefer date wheels to date windows, and there's almost nothing better than truncated or absent hour indices.
Power reserve is useful if you are wearing other watches in rotation. My favourite current watch is the FPJ Octa Automatique, where the power reserve takes up as much dial area as the time indication.
Just goes to show how one man's trash is another's treasure. Cheers.
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Love the 5712. Couldnt decide between that and the 5711 so went with the cheapest but more desirable 5711.
If someone offered a swap I must admit would be tempted by the quirky 5712
Insane
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One fine day this insane greed will bite the dealers right royally in the arse! They will look around and bleat “Where have all our customers gone”? The customers will in the main reply “FU”!
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If anyone is in South Korea there's one on rubber in the window of the Patek AD on Apgejeoung-ro in Seoul.
Massively overrated watches at RRP IMHO - the movement is a joke with low PR, no hacking and poor shock resistance. Want an amazing dive watch? Get a 50 fathoms- it's a better watch than the 5167
I agree.
This is why I like a PR on manual wind. I have a wide range of watches both autos and manual wind. So sometimes I forget that I am wearing a manual and not an auto so if I forget to wind my manual then the PR is a good reminder and prompt!
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But... It's not a dive watch. if you wore any watch as a daily PR is irrelevant, in fact it's virtually irrelevant for any watch I've owned. Either you like the looks or your don't. I don't see the problem with owning both the 50 Fathoms and a 5167, however I see a lot of potential buyers having a slight problem with a 45mm case compared to the slim line 5167. As to poor shock resistance, I have yet to drop my Patek with the same 324 movement, but have had both Rolex and Omega watches need to go for services after being dropped on the floor.
I'd say they are far from over rated at RRP, as the used price attest to. However, for the majority of people looking to buy a watch and wear it without giving a second thought as to resale/servicing etc. then there may well be a better options out there for them (either at the same or a much lower entry point) - but that said, sometimes if you have decided you want a particular product anything else would be a compromise.
It's just a matter of time...
If I still had mine, I’d be straining vegetables with it, instead of using my SD4k.....
Haha, I think you are right Alan. When I wear one of my automatic watches, I walk a little taller because I’m using a piece of sophisticated modern technology :). I like hearing the rotor moving.
Mind you, I might walk a bit taller still wearing one or two of Tony’s collection.