How have you found the experience buying vintage from ebay?
Just a poll to see how many of you have bought vintage watches from ebay. Was it a positive experience or dod you get “robbed”.
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Love watches…. Probably never get a “grail” watch but that’s ok with me, caught the “ mod “ bug. Member of the infamous Hairy Wrist Club
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7.00” / 17.78 cm
I've bought about 12 vintage watches on Ebay & had issues with 2 of them, these were both the first watches I bought where I didn't do enough research & didn't really know what I was doing lol!
Be careful. Do some research on the watch and the seller.
But, take a risk if the cost is low. For example:
How many of you would have bought this watch based on this picture?
A gentle cleaning, a new strap, and a new crystal and I have this:
Is is valuable? No, not particularly. It keeps good time. It pleases me that it has been rescued and given new life, all for very little.
Almost all of my small collection is made up of vintage watches, though due to the place I live in & not having access to ebay, I can't relate much. However I think most of the issues I've read about here of people having issues with vintage watches kinda don't exist where I live (egypt), as usually most watch makers here would do flips to get whatever watch your sending em serviced and usually its for fractions of fractions from the prices I hear here (100~250egp or 3.25~8.5usd).
Personally I love vintage watches, as to me they're small and aesthetically diffrent from most of the watched I see. Added value is the small size for my wrist and being a billion times cheaper than newer watches that I like 100~500egp vs 8K~28K egp
I have only bought one watch from eBay a tag night diver. Looks and works fine but I do think I need a new battery
It's taken me a little while to find a couple quality sellers on ebay. But now that I have, I'm finding some real gems
Like any platform it relies on a lot of research and some element of risk