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

For a Long Time, People Have Been Saying that the supply of
: vintage Heuers coming onto the market has been drying up, but I
: am really seeing it lately. Maybe after a decade of people
: finding the treasures (in their grandfathers' sock drawers) and
: listing them on eBay, most of the good ones have come to rest in
: the hands of collectors. From their, they can trade in other
: markets.

: It's difficult to remember the last time that I had three or four
: good ones on my eBay Watch List . . . or even one or two!!

: Jeff

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