: Here's an interesting posting, "Watches are the new
: bitcoin" --
: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/consumer/watches-are-the-new-bitcoin
: . The tag line -- "In a market where stocks, bonds and real
: estate are at an unsteady peak, vintage watches offer a new
: alternative."

Every time the economy has tanked I have bought great watches and made some money thanks to people who thought buying watches was like putting money in the bank. Luxury goods, like watches, are not a good hedge against inflation. Their value is a supply and demand dictated thing and when nobody has disposable income demand goes down. This my friends it the best time to have a little cash! Sorry...but it's simply a painful fact.

: And an interview with a Phillips watch specialist, Virginie
: Liatard-Roessli --
: https://atelierdegriff.com/2019/06/11/interview-virginie-liatard-roessli-watch-specialist-at-phillips-in-association-with-bacs-russo/
: . Being a watch specialist is harder work than we probably
: imagine. And you've got to like the idea of having an 11
: year-old daughter who is into complications. Projecting a very
: expensive life for this young lady!!

My son was brought up in a house full of expensive vices...among them watches and sushi. When he was 3 or 4 we often used to eat in a nice sushi place in Dallas where when we carried little Carl in the hostess would hand him a piece of octopus to tide him over until we got a table. Luckily, at 31 years of age the Sushi thing is still with him but the watch thing never took.

JohnCote