Life on the Wrist

Today we are doing a weekly roundup of some of the news out of Life on the Wrist. We take a look at more partnership news in the watch industry as Watchonista partner with Ebay for content creation. We also look at the return on investment you can have when investing in Omega watches, and the watch export results for January 2021.

The Watchonista partnership post can be found here.

The return on Omega watches can be found here.

The Swiss Watch export results for January 2021 can be found here.

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Collecting watches is a very personal hobby. The watches people decide to have in their collections often speak to their character, style, interests and what they resonate with. Once a collect gets through the learning phase where they own a couple of different watches, they normally get an idea for what types of watches they really want to own for a longer period of time. The themes they chose to collect by are formed at this stage. We talk about common traits that often times form collections. Some people like to collect vintage watches, or only Rolex or Omega watches. Others like to collect specific complications like chronographs or annual calendars. There is variety, and that is what makes forming a watch collection so fun.

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Well, big news in the watch industry. Hodinkee announced that they acquired Crown & Caliber, a leading watch dealer in the pre-owned space. This definitely shakes up the make-up of the preowned world. It also adds another capability that Hodinkee is able to offer. We talk through the deal, what it means to Hodinkee, its capability make-up from an operations perspective, and the future of this sector of the watch industry.

Hodinkee’s announcement post can be found here.

Crown & Caliber’s announcement post can be found here.

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There was an interesting brand article written in the New York Times about watch brand ambassadors and if they still sell watches for watch manufacturers. There are multiple view points on whether or not brand ambassadors and sponsorships really work. Different companies use them in different ways. Jean-Claude Biver and Tag Heuer’s use of ambassadors differs greatly from Rolex, Breitling and A. Lange & Söhne. Here are our thoughts on how sponsorships, or lack thereof, are like today.

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Vintage watch collectors know that Patek Philippe is extremely, if not the most collectable watch brand out there. Many regard them as being head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to the art of classical watchmaking. Today we take a look at a beautiful reference 2594 from the late 1960’s that has an extremely unique case design often termed “Disco Volante” by collectors which means ‘saucer’ in Italian. This watch also has the 23-300 movement which is regarded by many as being one of the best hand-wound movements ever produced. It is rare, beautiful and worth taking your time at.

Side note: It had been a while since a watch took our breath away; this Patek did exactly that.

The Patek Philippe reference 2594 we talk about can be found here.

Our blog post and video of this watch can be found here.

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With all the vintage watch options you have out there, it is often hard to find watches of value that are at the same time affordable. Vintage Omega has seen a great increase in prices over the last couple years, but we think Longines still is affordable. The watches are obviously from a well-established, high quality brand that produces high quality pieces and there is a lot of variety in their vintage watches. They also are affordable, relatively speaking, in the world of vintage watches. Today we discuss a vintage Longines we got in for our store and how incredible Longines is from a value perspective in the vintage watch world.

The Longines Admiral we talk about can be found here.

Our blog post and video of this watch can be found here.

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Double-signed watches are exceedingly rare in watch collecting. We talk about a very special Universal Genève from 1945, right after World War II, that bares both the manufactures signature and the famous London based jeweler, JW Benson. We talk about the history of the jeweler and the watches significance to the brand.

The Universal Genève double-signed JW Benson London watch can be found here.

A great source of information about double-signed Universal Genève watches can be found here.

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So the new year is underway and it is time for collectors to start looking for their next watch purchase of the year. In this extract from our YouTube channel, we go over some watches that we think you should have your eye on.

The original post can be found here.

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Today we have an extract from our YouTube channel where we discuss the historical returns on investing in Rolex watches. We look at watches like the Rolex Submariner Hulk, GMT Master II, DateJust and Explorer II and look at how much they have appreciated in value over the last 10-12 years. Spoiler - some of these watches have returned over 150% of their initial investment!

Our original blog post can be found here.

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