: Surprisingly or not but very different from Omega, where collectors
: do like a bit of solid gold!

I'm not so sure it is very different when you compare like for like. Think shifting a gold Speedy Pro compared to a steel one. There's a predictability, a regularity, to the sales of steel chronographs and of tool watches in general, that isn't quite matched by that of gold. Yes, gold has been desirable of late but a relative glut of spare parts like dials for these models makes me feel some of them were simply melted down for scrap value.

And, again there's a predictability to the sale of the "named" Heuers (think Autavia onwards, though there were a handful of named watches before that) that isn't there for the earlier watches to the same degree. And when we see them selling, we start to get a feel for where to price them. We don't see enough of the earlier watches to get the same sort of feel. With the gains gold has made in the last four or five years, Jeff's estimate probably sits a little low but over-ambitious pricing sees watches languishing without selling, as John says. Buy sensibly in the first place and you shouldn't take too much of a hit if you later want, or need, to resell. Unfortunately, it's harder to guide you as to what is sensible on these - somewhere between Jeff's estimate and maybe $1k on top would be somewhere in the right ballpark, I reckon.