Otters are the best, significant or not.

Exactly. Hello ChatGPT, make me a pyramid displaying ...

The definition of luxury inevitably contains an element of personal judgement.

I know this is a total side show from your question/comment, and you seemingly have bigger things to fry. But-here-we-go:

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: A Watermel0n is USD 600.- Let's consider a formal entry of goods (Note: Which arguably is for things 2.5K USD and up. So it might/should not apply to you to begin with).

Per watch (and you imported 2 of them), you will pay $1.53 for the movement (ST1901, 21 Jewels). For the strap, value ~USD 80.-, the customs is 7.84. For the case, value ~ USD 100.-, the customs is USD 4.2. Total: USD 13.57 per watch.

You were charged USD 145.- customs & import per watch? Considering a fee for the broker (should be the DHL rate of 2.5%, USD 7.- per watch) AND sales tax (oh, wait, OR does not have any), we land on around USD 21.- per watch. Which leaves 124.- x 2 = 248.- ... somewhere.

290 USD for customs sounds ... really high, given the price of the watches. What did the watch sheets say? Moreover, doesn't ship Studio Underdog customs pre-payed? All this sounds odd.

I recommend looking into this and you might be able to re-coup some money this way - and learn about how to import watches on the way.

As to selling one or both of these watches - they are desirable, but not rare, and still in production. Chances of selling them above retail will be an uphill battle.

If you go to watchexchange, chrono24 or ebay, given your history, all you will do is just buying more watches. So don't.

Most books about watches make me long for the authors' next manuscript. This is not because of an oversight of the authors, or so I imagine. Late at night, when everything has fallen silent, I can hear the booming voice of the editor scolding the author, the sound emanating from between the pages: "This is too detailed, no one will ever read this, you will die poor and homeless in a ditch if you don't cut the section on ....".

Rebbecca Struthers wrote a beautiful book on the demise of British clockmaking - however, what I really want to read from her is a book how to service, repair, restore, regulate and adjust Rebberg movements and what made them - if not her favorite -, but movements that she seem to appreciate more than others. I even would read the table how arbor diameters had changed over time, as long as she would explain why.

Dava Sobel's "Longitude" comes as close as anything to make the case why precision watches were a true need. The side story that one of Harrison's clocks, built in 1722, still runs at Brocklesby Park is breathtaking. I still do not understand how a Harrison clock/watch achieved the precision it delivered. The book is woefully devoid of the technical aspect, which probably would be no doubt difficult to accommodate in this slender edition. That would be the next book, "Remontoire"?

"The Polerouter" by Willis and Mazzucci is an honest book being upfront about its limitations - which for the reader includes its weight and price. First and foremost, the Polarouter/Polerouter drops into the reader's lap like The Touch in Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam". Since I read - if you can call looking at the stunning pictures reading - this book, I see the design fingerprints in a lot of places. The early Seiko Alpinist 850. A watch from Waltham (you can find a wrist shot of it on Crunch when you look for the wrist shots of eliamathias). I would love to read a book that has a phylogenetic tree that orders these items by their evolution. Others would call it "context". Who was inspired by whom?

However, I have come to the opinion that leaving the reader wanting more is a good thing. Because the opposite exists. Not unlike Gamma Ray sterilization, there are books that a leave a lifeless wasteland behind. "Here is an assembly of every manufacture-produced image of wristwatches that we were allowed to print". I do not re-open them. Ever.

This is a very nice dial in a very nice watch.

Sometimes I get so swept up in the Polerouter monopoly that I forget that it was an expression of a design of its time, with many co-parriots.

Thank you for sharing. I am curious, how do you decide what to wear between the Patrimony, CK859 and Heritage? These are all beautiful, clean and sleek sector dial watches.