Its just common sense really, I wear a G-Shock or some other beater for DIY/garden/car work and all other times wear something really nice that I can appreciate..
While your here alive and well you might as well enjoy your time (see what I did there!) or whats the point..
Not sure I agree with you Neil. My family was not well to do and we weren't very lucky to get much things but when we did my mother was all about taking care of things you own if you want to keep them. Even today if it's $5.00 or $50,000.00 I go out of my way to try to insure it stays in perfect shape and doesn't get damaged because my mothers warning is always in the back of my mind.
In our current throw away society I believe it's a good lesson that's embedded in me.
John
I just don’t get it. It’s a bit like saying I’d be comfortable driving a £6k used BMW, but not a £9k one to me.
Even a £4K Rolex looks like a Rolex. A £2k old DJ looks a little like a £40k Platinum Day Date.
It’s a watch - if you bought it and recognised it for the brand it is/was - nothing has been changed, except you are lucky enough to enjoy what has been an appreciating asset.
It's just a matter of time...
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That's all very well Paul, but you are not the target market for a current model Rolex then. The OP appears to be (although their post somewhat this slightly), as unlike you he has or had bought three current model Rolex watches in quick succession.
I may or may not continue to buy current model Rolex - the availability is slowly putting me off to be honest. I've gone back to buying lots of Omega and trying other brands again; when I would have preferred to add a small number of Rolex offerings.
If you are in the market to buy a new Rolex, then any increase in value shouldn't really be an issue, and certainly shouldn't be putting you of wearing the bloody thing!
I'll have to stop driving my convertible car in the summer. Because it's worth a few quid more then. ;)
See this thread.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...erent-Approach
I took a different approach - buying to wear and not worrying about resale/investment etc. Bought last June and still wearing without a care. These things are truly as hard as nails - the SubC which I have feels as if it could last a number of lifetimes.
Its had a hard life but everything works perfectly and timekeeping is more or less spot on if you leave dial up overnight.
While expensive, my admiration for Rolex continues. Not hype - just a brilliant, reliable product.
I am in the armed forces and wear my watches every where. Deployments, exercise, running don ta the ranges they all get worn irrespective of value. People sometimes stop and so me why, my reply is it’s a watch to be worn and it’s insured. Also when I baby my watches I end up damaging them more than when I am card free.
Sorry but isn't the easiest thing to actually acknowledge to yourself it's not a 10k watch but a 7k watch that is meant to be a beater?
Regardless of the resale price it's not a >10K watch that you'd be more concerned about getting scratched or damaged as the service/replacement from rolex doesn't go up just becuase people are over paying.
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£7k, £10k or, in years to come, a £20k watch. Who cares? Either wear it, enjoy it, and prosper, or profit financially in the short term and realise a profit to spend on......more watches!
Some interesting points and opinions on this thread. I'm 'lucky' enough to own a BLNR and I absolutely love it. I am, however, far from wealthy so this was a significant purchase for me and it is by far my most expensive watch to date (it marks my first 10 years in business).
I only wear it indoors or on those occasions when I can be comfortable that it's not going to attract the wrong attention or potential damage. I work away during most of the week and when I return, the first thing I do is put the BLNR on and it's like falling in love all over again. I wear inexpensive quartz watches during the week (that I love) so the BLNR is a real treat and I really look forward to being re united with it.
I really enjoy my BLNR. It’s the one I’d keep if I could only keep one.
I went through a phase of buying the Rolex SS models and sticking them in the safe. Then I thought stuff it, I like to wear them, peeled the stickers and lost a few quid on paper.
If you like the watch, keep it. If you don’t like the watch, sell it.
Maybe for those too scared to wear a more worn in watch would be the way to go.
I bought a 16700 a couple of months back-not cheap(8K) but unpolished with a few little dings here and there.
Thought about sending for a refinish but just decided to wear it pretty much everywhere including the gym and don't worry at all about it getting marked.If I had got it taken back to pristine it would probably mean dollying it a little bit again.
Strangely liberating doing it this way.
While I agree with you to some extent it’s not really the way with sought after Rolex, essential they are like a good solid share increasing in value with the added kudos of brand that does project the idea of wealth, like it or not it turns them into investments so lots will be sitting in a dark safe for a rainy day.
I wear mine but try to avoid anything that may damage it but also don’t stress about it either..
The day I start seeing any watch as ‘like a good solid share’ is the day I give-up this hobby. The only point of a watch is to enjoy it, to wear it, not to ‘project the image of wealth.’
Watches are a private pleasure, something for the wearer to enjoy, not a desperate attempt to imply social status. Especially as other people don’t care.
Virtually no-one outside us hobbyists knows what a ‘Daytona’ actually is. Long may it remain so.
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And good for you, wearing a watch that you love when and where you want to based on your choice as an adult. I can understand that people might choose to behave very differently but suggesting that people shouldn’t own watches because you don’t wear it like “me” is ridiculous.
Partly true, but I have some watches that are far cheaper than the watches I wear day to day, and I fret about them getting marked up ;)
Don't know why, it's just one of those things. For example I'm more precious about my mint 2531 and 2254 than a lot of other watches I own.
It's just a matter of time...
some very strange arguments put forward for wearing expensive watches all the time
why would I want to wear a 5513 or indeed any Rolex Sub on the beach in South Africa, or for that matter when gardening or working on my car - I have several other watches that are worth just a few £'s and tell the time just as well
That goes without saying. I think this thread argument really started with people not wearing it at all or just at home indoors which is a little diff.
I will wear my mine down the pub or on long walks in the hills but would have the sense to take off my Aquanaut when it is guaranteed to get scratched on rocks etc or doing weights in the gym with steel dumbells
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defeating my own comment above but up to 3 years ago I always wore my 16610 or 16570 on holiday all day long - now a rethink, maybe because of the (value) increase of Rolex and the worsening security problems, (anywhere and everywhere in the world) - just bought a SKX for this years trip.
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Knysna for us in 3 weeks - with a CWC and SKX
Knysna probably safer than most parts of the UK!
You say that but it all depends. My family and my wife's side of the family have never noticed any of my watches but the first day I wore a Rolex to work three people asked about it, if it was real, how much I paid for it. After that it was back to Seiko and Omega at work.
It all depends on where you are and who's looking. Admittedly the older people in my office would never notice but the ones in the 25-35 age range are the ones who comment.
Probably doesn't help that I work in sales.