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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: garrardrj on January 07, 2018, 06:00:59 pm
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I am in the market for a new Sports Watch along the Omega/Rolex style like Submariner Planet Ocean or similar.
I would like it to be like my other Omega Seamaster which is now worth more than i paid for it 11 years ago. So what do you guys suggest ? Max budget say £8-10k.
Also what about Ladies Rolex/Omega , similar budget..
It is more of an investment and something nice to wear occasionally rather than having cash sitting doing very little. So when the need comes it could be sold for similar or more.
Thanks :smiley:
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Men’s steel sports Rolex or Panerai are pretty solid buys which will sell easily down the road for decent money. Ladies watches don’t however enjoy the same resale prospects. Suspect the price rises of recent years will stabilise now that our exchange rate has bottomed out.
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I am in the market for a new Sports Watch along the Omega/Rolex style like Submariner Planet Ocean or similar.
I would like it to be like my other Omega Seamaste which is now worth more than i paid for it 11 years ago. So what do you guys suggest ? Max budget say £8-10k.
Also what about Ladies Rolex/Omega , similar budget..
It is more of an investment and something nice to wear occasionally rather than having cash sitting doing very little. So when the need comes it could be sold for similar or more.
Thanks :smiley:
Perhaps I will hang onto my Semenmaster for a bit longer then. Just seen a few going for £3K :surprised:
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Which seamasters are we talking about here?
For an investment you need to be going down the lines of something like a Rolex BLNR GTM, or try and get yourself on the waiting list for new releases, something that you can buy and flip.
I wouldnt do any of that, I would just buy the watch I want, wear it and enjoy it and then hand it down.
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Best place to put the money are not in Omega for sure.
You should pick he Omega if you really want it but for the investment side this isn’t a choice I would pick. Very rare that Omegas holds the value.
Rolex will always be a safe place to make sure you can use the watch for more than 3 years and sell it to pretty much the same price you bought it from.
Since 2014 I’ve placed abou 30,000punds in a few watches that currently would bring me about more than 40k with the prices today.
And I use all of them since I like using the stuff I buy :drinking:
So from my perspective but a steal Rolex sport model.
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Which seamasters are we talking about here?
For an investment you need to be going down the lines of something like a Rolex BLNR GTM, or try and get yourself on the waiting list for new releases, something that you can buy and flip.
I wouldnt do any of that, I would just buy the watch I want, wear it and enjoy it and then hand it down.
The classic 41mm 300m Professional 'James Bond' Seamaster. Quartz and automatic. The latter fetches more but the former is on the rise. Discontinued I believe, which will always prop up s/hand values. Average is about £1100 for a reasonable one - up to £1500+ for a recently serviced & boxed example, but some jokers try and ask £3K+ for them. I paid £825 for mine (Quartz) in 2003.
£320 to service the sodding thing at Goldsmiths every few years.
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Hmm. 3k. Don’t think so :signLOL:
Servicing prices must have gone up, I paid 320 for my Auto to be done last year. Came back looking like it was brand new.
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Which seamasters are we talking about here?
For an investment you need to be going down the lines of something like a Rolex BLNR GTM, or try and get yourself on the waiting list for new releases, something that you can buy and flip.
I wouldnt do any of that, I would just buy the watch I want, wear it and enjoy it and then hand it down.
The classic 41mm 300m Professional 'James Bond' Seamaster. Quartz and automatic. The latter fetches more but the former is on the rise. Discontinued I believe, which will always prop up s/hand values. Average is about £1100 for a reasonable one - up to £1500+ for a recently serviced & boxed example, but some jokers try and ask £3K+ for them. I paid £825 for mine (Quartz) in 2003.
£320 to service the sodding thing at Goldsmiths every few years.
Use Tesco clubcard vouchers, you can hse them to buy Goldsmiths vouchers. Would cost you just over £100 in Tesco vouchers as present exchange rate is x3....look it up. :happy2:
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Hmm. 3k. Don’t think so :signLOL:
Servicing prices must have gone up, I paid 320 for my Auto to be done last year. Came back looking like it was brand new.
Aye. Full service includes a new strap and mechanism parts. Minor service is just seals and battery.
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Which seamasters are we talking about here?
For an investment you need to be going down the lines of something like a Rolex BLNR GTM, or try and get yourself on the waiting list for new releases, something that you can buy and flip.
I wouldnt do any of that, I would just buy the watch I want, wear it and enjoy it and then hand it down.
The classic 41mm 300m Professional 'James Bond' Seamaster. Quartz and automatic. The latter fetches more but the former is on the rise. Discontinued I believe, which will always prop up s/hand values. Average is about £1100 for a reasonable one - up to £1500+ for a recently serviced & boxed example, but some jokers try and ask £3K+ for them. I paid £825 for mine (Quartz) in 2003.
£320 to service the sodding thing at Goldsmiths every few years.
Use Tesco clubcard vouchers, you can hse them to buy Goldsmiths vouchers. Would cost you just over £100 in Tesco vouchers as present exchange rate is x3....look it up. :happy2:
Good to know, thanks mate :happy2:
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Hmm. 3k. Don’t think so :signLOL:
Servicing prices must have gone up, I paid 320 for my Auto to be done last year. Came back looking like it was brand new.
Aye. Full service includes a new strap and mechanism parts. Minor service is just seals and battery.
You sure about new strap ?
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Usually straps/bezels/faces/crystals are extra
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Hmm. 3k. Don’t think so :signLOL:
Servicing prices must have gone up, I paid 320 for my Auto to be done last year. Came back looking like it was brand new.
Aye. Full service includes a new strap and mechanism parts. Minor service is just seals and battery.
You sure about new strap ?
It was included in my service. I didn't ask for it to be changed. It was the first 'major' service since I owned it, so perhaps they just gave it the works.
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Unusual.... usually they just completely refurbish the case/strap/ Maybe its too faffy to do on that particular one so just throw one on
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Yeah probably. I was slightly annoyed to get it back with a standard matt finish after I spent ages polishing it :grin:
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A watch to appreciate in value would have to be a Rolex surely.
A Rolex is out of my price range, but I am looking at Omegas, I just can't decide on a speedy with hesalite crystal or a planet ocean. That would be regularly worn and handed down in the future.
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A watch to appreciate in value would have to be a Rolex surely.
A Rolex is out of my price range, but I am looking at Omegas, I just can't decide on a speedy with hesalite crystal or a planet ocean. That would be regularly worn and handed down in the future.
Relatively little appreciates, bar some quite niche runs of "classics", but takes time - and you need to have not worn them too much.
Have a 1969 Seamaster Cosmic with a silver dial, which I love. Also got a new Rolex Oyster Perpetual with a dark rhodium dial and the blue indicators, which I use more often as it's much more resilient. If you fancy something that stands out, I nearly bought a Rolex Milgauss.
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I managed to bag myself a stainless steel Rolex Daytona about 4 years ago at just over list price. A new version was launched about a year ago and the old version shot up 20% overnight for a nice used one
Unfortunately the wait for a new one is stretching to many years unless you are VERY well connected
Agree that stainless Rolex’s are the way to go
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I'm against the grain with Rolexes. They might be a good investment if you have enough surplus capital to sink into it, but imo they are ugly and crass wrist bling for Bentley boy footballers :sick:
I'd rather sink the money into precious metals or cyber currency.
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Not a fan of any of the Seamasters personally, I’d rather a Submariner or the GMT ll if we’re talking looks.
Can’t beat a classic Casio though
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Submariner looks better, but the way the bezel transitions into a much narrower strap, looks awkward. The bezel looks nice though, almost a spit of the Seamaster!
I dunno, I just like the coherence of the Seamaster. I know it's not the don of watches, but as an all round dress watch and a step into premium wrist bling, it's OK.
It just seems to me that the more expensive the watch, the uglier it is. The upper end Breitlings being a good example. God they are hideous things and like wearing a saucer on your wrist, inviting a good mugging. There's just no need :grin:
Casio.....now you're talking! And Citizen :laugh:
I remember my Grandad wearing one of these and thinking how crap it was, but now.......I love them weirdly enough. I like retro tat!
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I am in the market for a new Sports Watch along the Omega/Rolex style like Submariner Planet Ocean or similar.
I would like it to be like my other Omega Seamaste which is now worth more than i paid for it 11 years ago. So what do you guys suggest ? Max budget say £8-10k.
Also what about Ladies Rolex/Omega , similar budget..
It is more of an investment and something nice to wear occasionally rather than having cash sitting doing very little. So when the need comes it could be sold for similar or more.
Thanks :smiley:
Perhaps I will hang onto my Semenmaster for a bit longer then. Just seen a few going for £3K :surprised:
"Semenmaster" ....a wrist watch for wankers? :signLOL:
Unfortunate auto complete buddy! :ashamed:
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I believe @Pudding (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=10733) may be a fan of Finbarr Saunders.
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I am in the market for a new Sports Watch along the Omega/Rolex style like Submariner Planet Ocean or similar.
I would like it to be like my other Omega Seamaste which is now worth more than i paid for it 11 years ago. So what do you guys suggest ? Max budget say £8-10k.
Also what about Ladies Rolex/Omega , similar budget..
It is more of an investment and something nice to wear occasionally rather than having cash sitting doing very little. So when the need comes it could be sold for similar or more.
Thanks :smiley:
Perhaps I will hang onto my Semenmaster for a bit longer then. Just seen a few going for £3K :surprised:
"Semenmaster" ....a wrist watch for wankers? :signLOL:
Unfortunate auto complete buddy! :ashamed:
Nah, I typed Semenmaster deliberately. That's how my mind works I'm afraid :smiley: I'm just a little bit odd, in case you hadn't noticed :happy2:
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I believe @Pudding (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=10733) may be a fan of Finbarr Saunders.
I've never read Viz. Shocking, I know!