Siffert affaire: my personal point of wiew...
I would say mine. To all those who hope to bring home a Euro 3000 Siffert I can say that they have missed the boat 6 years ago . Talking to a friend forum user , we assumed a production of 2000-2500 Autavia Siffert in 2 years or so : how many are left around in good condition? The answer is not enough to hope that the supply curve may have a variation , mainly due to a growing demand cross : the Siffert like to motorsport fans , collectors of vintage watches. collector of vintage cars at all ... Worse Orange Boy, known in twenty specimens . 10 years ago Heuer liked a handful of people . Today, thanks to the OTD , the fans and the prices have gone up as well.
There is little you can do : try to go to Monaco , Parma ... you will find hundreds of sub Rolex , Daytona , GMT ... real , fake ... falling prices due to offer thousands and thousands of pieces. But you will never find a Siffert , because there are none . And the price makes him who sells it .
I refused to buy other Heuer : the game has become too expensive for my taste . I brought home a bit of Zenith El Primero , those produced between 1969 and 1972 . But others saw how beautiful these watches and , even there , there is nothing more reasonable price: A386 gone over 6500 Euros in 1 year!
Guys, we were the pioneers, but now the game is out of hand there . If prices were to fall , I will be happy to restart to buy Autavias, Monacos or others. But I'm not so optimistic: too few watches to hope another collapse in "omegamania" style.