To a certain extent the same thing happens with cars, people get to 40 and can afford the car they always wanted when they were young. So recently we've seen Countach prices go through the roof and early 911 Turbo prices are following. Testarossas are still underpriced but they will surely follow. A few years ago a friend had £10,000 he had to spend immediately on a car or lose a load of it to the tax man. He asked me what to buy, I suggested an E30 BMW M3 evo. He bought a 2000 year Alfa Spyder...

: i agree there are only little very nice watches coming up at ebays.
: this is true also for breitlings and rolexes.

: of course most is in collectors hands.

: you can buy many watches for parts, refurbishment ect on ebay and
: many of them also get offered via other market chanels.

: Anyhow I still beleive more and more that watches being 40 years
: old and older are going down some day: the collectors lack of
: being reinvednted by young people thing I was talking about. I
: always ask myself what does 40 years mena: that menas for us,
: 1985 you collect stuff from 1945...so 2000 from 1960 and 2010
: from 1970....in other words in 1985 when I was 15 years I was
: never interested in stuff from 1945...and in 2000 i was even
: less interested in stuff from 1945...same will happen to young
: people.

: I believe we will see a big drop down in prices when we have the
: euro amagedon coming up. its not the euro which might be dying,
: its the spiral which has been initaited with unemplyment in
: spain at 25% and more...same with greece, portugal, italy...so
: there is less money outside now from people concentrating on
: watches...thy need to concentrate on food and health...this
: spiral of unempleyment will also effect germany and other states
: and plus the inflation risk might slowly end in a situation like
: in the 20s....and at the very end you cant eat watches...neither
: porsches...and finally all is about securing the money in
: gold....and finally from the government by hiding the gold ...so
: dont put into bank safe...

: yes and at this time the watch and all collectors market will
: collaps...and than afterwards will not come back to its todays
: level....i know it will take more time till we see the
: scenario...but in the next 10 years we are there for sure.

: so no market and finally no new upcoming people is killing...as
: finally the market are fueled by us here...we keep the price
: high...for us :-)...and i agree we more trade in between us than
: to newbies....so when we stop buying,, prices will drop
: anytime....as not a lot of people are wiling to pay there prices
: outside...with deceasig population plus the euro scenario...a
: high risk hobby.

: ape

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