Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)
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Life is too short for washing your car.
I know what you mean, but I'm practically retired these days and have far too much free time on my hands. So the car will get a decent ceramic coat, the rest of the washing will be done by the lads on the Ennis rd😉
It's all part and parcel of keeping the Mrs sweet😁 Happy wife, happy life and all that jazz.
In a watch related bit of "news" the Atelier Wen per perception V2 campaign email landed in my inbox a short while ago. They've tweaked the design a little and have made some improvements, new price is $2788. I do think it is a lovely piece, and Hamish the Watch Guy on twitter had 1 in hand last week that he seemed to like.
All that said? I still can't bring myself to put money down in one. Yes it's got a lot of work in it that were it German, Swiss or even Italian would set you back 5x the money. But?
The European brands all have at least a notional residual value that I can't see the Atelier Wen having. Yes there are some on Chrino24 in the €2.5k - €3.5k bracket, but they've been sitting there quite a while. On top of that, with the market in steep decline, I do think that it'll be available at deep discount 2nd hand by middle of next year.
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i was in NYC between Christmas and New Years and took a wander through the diamond district. For a bit of context I'd been following a few NY headers on socia media; Vookum, Tuscanyrose, veralet and others. I also dropped €20 for one month on the vookum verified telegram channel where they buy, sell and generally assist with watch info.
Observations on the diamond district - pretty much anything new and bling is available. No shortages of any Rolex divers, GMTs, Daytonas etc in all sorts of guises. Lots of AP and Hublot etc. Any amount of diamond covered stuff also in abundance. Overall if its flashy its there. Vintage and more subtle brands were a lot less. I asked each one I was chatting to about an 80/90's root beer with the alumnium bezel, chocolate dial on a jubliee and had no luck. One said he could try and source one, others had no interest at all. In terms of prices if you were looking for something in the 10-20k price bracket you could save the cost of flights for two and maybe a hotel (budget depending) by heading over.
Now onto the Vookum verified. Pricing is decent but hard to know unless you really engage on a watch. Over the last two weeks I see some watches appearing a few times so guess they aren't selling. One or two things caught my eye such as Subs and Black GMTs. The ones that did had no box or papers. One sub was 7k and for that price I think it would be good buy as a wear it everyday tool watch as they were intended. 1k more and you will get some papers or warranty card. Again the majority of stuff is Rolex as I'm guessing thats the easiest to flip and make a bit on but there are some APs etc that pop up. Again mostly the stuff that is recogniseable to the the non watch nerds.
To wrap up, it was an interesting exercise and if you are over its worth an hour or two on 47th St. Needless to say I will be canceling the Vookum subscription but for anyone serisous about buying something recent both are worth checking out.
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