Watch Collecting Madness - Part 1 - The RE-BUY
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- Have you ever owned multiple versions of the same watch, buying then selling, then buying again? In this video, I discuss the re-buy phenomena, what causes it, and how to tackle it!
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I got promoted in 2006 and moved to London. As a reward, i bought a new Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45.5mm for £1875. LOVED this watch - Bought on steel strap and got the rubber strap with it too (at a cost of course). Roll fwd 15 years I sold it to my brother for £1875. 2023 I saw him not wearing it and enquired why. HE showed me. He had trashed it. Lumes had fallen off. Rubber strap snapped. It wasnt working. Screen cracked and water ingress. I offered him £500 and he accepted. FINALLY I HAD IT BACK after regretting the sale every day. Full serviced by Omega and many parts replaced, it came back looking as good as it did on the very first day i bought it. That cost me £950. To this day, this is still my all time favourite watch. It will never be sold again - amazingly beautiful watch
Subscribed. Looking fwd to following your journey. Good luck with it.
P.S. I have a sprite and wear it a lot - always on the left wrist!!!!
Oh wow what a story! That's the best re-buy story I've heard! Thanks for subscribing, and also congratulations on the Riddler! Just don't lend it to your brother!! 😀
Just found your channel and subscribed. Love this talk about the thought process behind re-buys. Thank you!
You're welcome and thanks for watching. It's a cringe worthy topic but one we need to share!
I started my watch journey in 2008 when I bought an Omega SMP, followed by a black 42mm PO just a few months later, followed by an orange PO Chrono another few months later. I felt it was one Omega diver too many and I handed the black PO to my father. I wouldn't say I regretted giving it away because it stayed in the family but there were times when I would have liked to have it on my wrist. Last year it was time for a full service which took some months. In the meantime my father wore other watches which were a bit lighter than the PO. After being back from service the PO didn't get as much wrist time as before. It simply was now too heavy for his taste. So he wanted to give it back to me which I first turned down. It was a gift after all. But two weeks later he insisted on giving it back to me and I couldn't refuse anymore. So the circle is now complete, I have the PO back in my collection and now I don't think three Omega divers are too many. Unless my father changes his mind and say he misses it this beauty won't leave my collection for a second time.
Great story, and that watch also now has sentimental value that it didn't have before. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been very tempted to rebuy the new SMP, the SKX009 and the JLC sector dial but never gave in. The only watch that I re bought was the citizen Promaster aqualand. Bought it and sold it twice. Rebuying is not an affliction that I suffer from :).
Do exactly what I do. Have a display case in your bedroom you call the "pig pen", which you can see regularly and put the watches you intend to sell in there. Leave them in there for enough time until you forget all the reasons why wanted to sell the watch. For me, watches go into the pig pen for 2 reasons:
(1) Fallen out of love with the style
(2) The wearability, size is not great
The third category of "I don't wear it enough" is not actually a category, but a symptom of the first two. It's derivative. Thus it's not worth mentioning. Well maybe for a dress watch it's true, but I tend not to buy those now.
Anyway, after you've forgotten why the watch is in the pig pen, pull it out and rediscover it all over again. For some of my watches, I've put them in the pen due to being "too plain" but once I've pulled them out again I have forgiven them for their plainness, and actually fall in love with their legibility and simplicity, and some are now keepers I feel I'll never part with. The ones that end up being in the latter (2) camp of wearability... I find that is not going to change. The same issues rear their ugly heads with that. I find with those ones, if you can't wear them on a different strap or anything that makes them more wearable, you have to write down in your list of "sold watches" spreadsheet, why you sold it. Then commit to never rebuying.
Thanks for the detailed analysis. I agree on all your points, and have occasionally used a holding pen for watches that are bothering me. You get that little buzz of excitement when you wear it again after a while away from each other. I'm also impressed you keep a spreadsheet!
@TheRandomWatchDude the spreadsheet was initially for insurance reasons with purchase price, market price and serial number, but ended up geeking out adding dimensions, movement, water resistance, service date, type of lume, and anything else I can find. Anything I sell I just move to the "sold" tab adding sell price and reason for sale. I'm am engineer, so documenting everything methodically comes naturally to me :)
Thanks for explaining this to me, I've seen RUclipsrs do this, but couldn't understand why. My problem is that I hate selling anything for fear of seller's remorse 😁 Subscribed to try and help you reach 1000.
Thank you, much appreciated! I just recorded the next video in this series which is titled 'comfort in chaos'! We don't like things being too ordered and stable!
"I'm very good at the re-buy"...LMAO!
I bought the PO 2500 45.5 Gen 1 black bezel version 10 years ago when I retired as a gift to myself and it was my first true luxury watch; for those reasons I could never sell it and have been spared the re-buy curse...but you have my sympathies...
Honestly I think that 45.5mm PO is the most fun watch, and this latest one is definitely staying.... definitely!
have you considered the 42mm?@@TheRandomWatchDude
@@explorerjlc1743 hello yes I had the orange 42mm 2209.50 for a while. It didn't quite have the same special feeling on the wrist as the 45.5mm for me, which is crazy as it was a much more practical size!
I had the same journey with the speedy... bought 8-10 versions but ultimately found the right one for me, which is the 3861.
Speedy is a classic for that I bet! I've actually never owned a Speedy, and need to address that at some point. I actually really like the neo-vintage triple date automatics. Always on the look-out for a blue one in good condition.
I completely understand... as I regret selling my brand new First Omega in space was a perfect 39mm speedmaster beautiful arrow hands and got 1k discounted from the AD just before it got discontinued 😢
The problem thing if I was to re buy it would cost me 2k more for what I paid for it 😢😂
Ah yes that is another problem with re-buys. They always cost more!
I have bought the black wave seamaster twice. And the silver with blue hands one once
I very nearly bought that silver dial with blue hands model not long after it was released. I still like that one, as it's a little different
Hi must admit I've never done a re buy but I'm not very good at selling watches because when I've bought them they don't seem to have a monetary value any more (I've moved on)so the next watch I start saving again and don't consider trading it up.the down side to this it takes a long time to buy the watch you want.but the one watch I own I have four the same but with different colour face's .is this a bit strange? As for some reason I wanted all the different face colours (still have one to get Wight face breitling Hercules) this was the first watch that got me into collecting great video thanks John.
Totally relatable. I once collected all 5 versions of the SKX whose only difference was the face and bezel colour. It's a very similar issue! I think you're far more sensible than I have been though.
Quick question if you could be so kind to answer: I have been on the hunt for a Seamaster 2254.50. I notice on some the indicies look white while others have a more cream color to them (like yours). Is this natural patina or a different color option? Thank you for your help!
Hello I think what you might be seeing is the power of the lume even in daylight. I often look down at the face and see the lume glowing a faint green even on a bright day, but I've come indoors, or sat under the trees and the lume is super charged. I've never seen an example where the lume has patina as such, as the first examples of these watches were made in 2000 which is still a little early for the creamy patina to develop. You're welcome to email me a picture if you like, if you see one you're not sure about.
Much appreicated!@@TheRandomWatchDude
I am subscriber number 900 :)
Congratulations, and thank you! tell all your friends. Once I get to 1,000 subs, good things happen!
Guilty ✋🏽
I’ve bought and sold the modern SMP a few times (2x blue dial, 2x white dial) and was about to….a FIFTH time before an amazing condition 2254.50 came up.
You would have broken a record surely at 5 times! The 2254.50 is a great watch, and even better that you got a good one. I've just put mine in for a full Omega service. Nothing really wrong with it, but I want to keep it minty
@@TheRandomWatchDude just DM’d couple you couple pics on IG
Been there done that! I rebought the Speedmaster pro. Then sold it and bought the automatic speedmaster. Sold that one! I need help!
I want so badly to love the Speedmaster. Well, I do love it. But I just can’t get used to how hard it is to wind with my fat fingers sandwiched between those pushers that are just too close to the crown IMO. There’s gotta be some speedy out there for me. Either easier to wind or automatic but closer to the moonwatch than that last Speedmaster auto I got. The struggle is real.
Frankly, I won't look back if I let go...........for the watch I really love, I hope to get 2 pieces, 1 for use and 1 for collection
Very sensible sir 👏
Guilty! I rebought Tudor BB41, GMT and Rolex SD43. Currently looking to rebuy omega smp pro 300m
Thats a good haul of re-buys! Good work 👏
Great topic!…I’m like you with setting the time so that the minute hand is synchronized with the seconds. In my collecting experience…re-buys are usually not permanent. At least for me, re-buys usually become re-sells before too long. My last 2 rebuys were done due to not having the proper steel bracelet for the watch the first time around and I thought that having the bracelet would change the ownership experience. It did for me, but not enough to keep it (see my 36mm Railmaster video) for very long. My Omega Ranchero was a rebuy and I now have the right bracelet, but I don’t wear it as often as I’d like for various reasons and I plan on re-selling it some day as well.
Cheers!
Key word is Rolex they reckon. 😉
Definitely! 4x more views even if the video doesn't have a Rolex in it!
Sad but true
This horde is a sickness lol