Not for the faint of heart

[unknown]

No idea how long you're in the collecting / watch enthusiasts hobby ....
But in my case it's just over 30 years ... time flies.

Bought my first Rolex sub 16610 halfway the 1990's. That aside ... I also started buying books, magazines etc about watches.
Cause back then there was barely internet so forget about forums like this one/ The first one I followed was Timezone.com. If I'm not mistaken that was the first watch related forum.
2005 was the date I registered on this forum, which was from the start.

But in this case I watch to have a flashback to the paper magazines from 25-30 years ago. I still have all these and it's a real pleasure to sit back and read these older books and magazines.
I literally have several hundreds of them.

The only thing that makes you a bit uncomfortable are the secondhand prices :-)
some examples ...

This is from a 1999 Italian magazine (O&M Montres). One could sell his watch via this magazine cause as I said before .... Internet was not that common 26 years ago LOL



Can you imagine ... 820 for s speedmaster



Or the same price for a vintage Blancpain Bathyscaphe .... Totally unpopular and unwanted back then



Or 1550 for a vintage Rolex 5513



Yes, that's 3600 for this vintage James Bond



You want an Aquanaut ? That's 4400 please and of course you can always do me an offer



Or more interested in a Vintage Nautilus for 6700 ?


Any takers ?? :-) :-)

[brandrea]

Those Patek prices …