Jeff Stein Wrote

: A couple of suggestions for this type of presentation: It would be
: great to cover a few more brands (with the style of watch that
: Crown & Caliber was analyzing) It would also be great to
: cover a second style of watch . . .

Jeff

Thanks for posting the info. This is indeed very interesting and also in its broad range pretty predictable to someone who knows the watch business. I have an observation as the son of a statistics professor who had this kind of thing drummed into his brain from an early age. This study is about watches not brands. The watches they picked from each brand may or may not reflect the general trend for that brand. As a guy who sells a lot of pre-owned Rolex watches I would say the Explorer is perhaps the sport watch from that brand with the poorest resale value. The Submariner may, on the other hand retain the most value.

When a retail business does a "study" like this my old man....the statistics professor....would always turn up his nose and ask me to look for the underlying reasons for doing the study and how they may have prejudiced the data for some kind of gain. For instance, is the motivation of this store to sell more Pateks?

I agree with what you say (above), first, that data like this is important and second, about including more watches from each brand. Using eBay post sale prices it would not be difficult to come up with a broader statistical analysis.

JohnCote