Who does that?!?!
So yesterday I went to the dentist for a routine check. My dentist is a watch guy so we always talk and compare watches for a bit. His daily is a Tudor Black Bay 36 and I was wearing the Sinn 556i, which he'd never seen in the metal before.
I mentioned I was on the waiting list for an Explorer when he told me the AD had called him not long ago with a steel and gold Daytona that he'd been on the list for for about a year and a half. He said he'd forgotten all about it when they called, but decided to decline the purchase because he just "couldn't justify spending ~$20k." He pulled up the Omega Constellation Globemaster in gold he's got his eye on now. A ~$23k watch.
Such is the madness of watch collecting 🤣.
Eclectic collector: Swiss…Japanese…cheap…not cheap…big name brand...micro brand…mechanical…automatic…handwinder…quartz…homage…luxury…in-house…workhorse…it’s all good!
Well, if there's one hobby where beauty (and value) are in the eye of the beholder, Its watches.
Dentists know the price of gold. (I have some gold dental work) I bet there's more real gold in the Omega than the Rolex. Maybe he couldn't justify spending that much for a gold bezel and some links, but a solid gold case, that has value.