Best place to sell a more expensive watch
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squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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Mc lovin said:
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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jdw1234 said:
Mc lovin said:
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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whoami said:
jdw1234 said:
Mc lovin said:
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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Mc lovin said:
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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stockings yes pants NO ! £2.8K is a lot of money but be quick as I've got my eye on something else
I had the same problem recently in trying to move on a Breitling Montbrilliant Legende (my eyes were bigger than my wrists!)
Tried TZ-UK with barely a sniff, eventually visited a jeweller in in town who specialises in selling Rolex and other prestige brands. Asked if he would be prepared to sell it on a commission basis, told him what I'd like for the watch and it was dropped into his window...nice cheque for £2.8k dropped through my letter box a couple of days ago. He had it up for a few pounds under £3.5k. Worth a try rather than seeking an outright sale to used watch dealer?
Seems folk are prepared to pay top dollar from an established source rather pay through fora and ebay.
Tried TZ-UK with barely a sniff, eventually visited a jeweller in in town who specialises in selling Rolex and other prestige brands. Asked if he would be prepared to sell it on a commission basis, told him what I'd like for the watch and it was dropped into his window...nice cheque for £2.8k dropped through my letter box a couple of days ago. He had it up for a few pounds under £3.5k. Worth a try rather than seeking an outright sale to used watch dealer?
Seems folk are prepared to pay top dollar from an established source rather pay through fora and ebay.
True but there is a very odd dynamic over on TZ-UK, certain watches such as seamaster 2254, speedmaster, Rolex sub/sd/gmt, Seiko marinemaster and almost any Sinn etc. all sell very fast and often at the same price as established dealers who give a 1yr warranty such as watches.co.uk. The only Breitlings that sell on TZ-UK are the ones everyone keeps saying are great so its the B-1, ChronoAvenger and Seawolf, aerospaces sell but at giveaway prices. Watches.co.uk for example had a CA M-1 for sale at a lower price then one which was sat on the SC at the same time, very odd dynamic. Yet on the other hand if anyone goes over there now and looks at my old Steelfish GMT and aerospace they are more or less being given away. Crazy crazy stuff. TBH I am getting a little bored of the place, it just seems to be the same few boring predictable watches being flipped about amongst the same ppl.
Forums are both the best and worst thing to happen to the watch world, whilst it helps expose and widen knowledge and awareness it also creates a phenomenal clique mentality.
Forums are both the best and worst thing to happen to the watch world, whilst it helps expose and widen knowledge and awareness it also creates a phenomenal clique mentality.
Forums are funny things, I suppose inevitably there becomes a group-think attitude to certain makes/models, what's collectable and what's not, what's considered good taste and bad etc which informs on the one hand but corrals opinion on the other. I think with forums you just have to pick your way through and sort out what's best for you in particular, mindful of the general opinion but free to form your own.
NJH said:
True but there is a very odd dynamic over on TZ-UK, certain watches such as seamaster 2254, speedmaster, Rolex sub/sd/gmt, Seiko marinemaster and almost any Sinn etc. all sell very fast and often at the same price as established dealers who give a 1yr warranty such as watches.co.uk. The only Breitlings that sell on TZ-UK are the ones everyone keeps saying are great so its the B-1, ChronoAvenger and Seawolf, aerospaces sell but at giveaway prices. Watches.co.uk for example had a CA M-1 for sale at a lower price then one which was sat on the SC at the same time, very odd dynamic. Yet on the other hand if anyone goes over there now and looks at my old Steelfish GMT and aerospace they are more or less being given away. Crazy crazy stuff. TBH I am getting a little bored of the place, it just seems to be the same few boring predictable watches being flipped about amongst the same ppl.
Forums are both the best and worst thing to happen to the watch world, whilst it helps expose and widen knowledge and awareness it also creates a phenomenal clique mentality.
I'm not sure thats entirely true, my taste in watches is a little out of the mainstream and I've bought and sold quite a variety of watches through TZ-UK. Just off the top of my head, the less usual ones I've sold that spring to mind are: Alpina, vintage G-P, vintage Zenith, vintage Eterna, Anonimo, Laco as well as the more popular Stowa, Oris, Sea-Gull, Poljot, etc .. I agree they aren't as easy to sell, but there are plenty of interested lurkers there. Forums are both the best and worst thing to happen to the watch world, whilst it helps expose and widen knowledge and awareness it also creates a phenomenal clique mentality.
I take no part in the in-crowd banter but its just like most specialist forums, there's a hard core of regular long term posters and a large number of more infrequent occasional posters like myself.
Mr MoJo said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
A camera is always useful Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
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www.iconicwatches are usually pretty good. you can fill in a form here and they should send you a quote back http://www.iconicwatches.co.uk/sell-your-watch.
i sold my old sub mariner pepsi to them last week. fair price
i sold my old sub mariner pepsi to them last week. fair price
tertius said:
I'm not sure thats entirely true, my taste in watches is a little out of the mainstream and I've bought and sold quite a variety of watches through TZ-UK. Just off the top of my head, the less usual ones I've sold that spring to mind are: Alpina, vintage G-P, vintage Zenith, vintage Eterna, Anonimo, Laco as well as the more popular Stowa, Oris, Sea-Gull, Poljot, etc .. I agree they aren't as easy to sell, but there are plenty of interested lurkers there.
I take no part in the in-crowd banter but its just like most specialist forums, there's a hard core of regular long term posters and a large number of more infrequent occasional posters like myself.
To be fair, on balance, I think you are right. I have bought almost all of my watches from there but there is definitely a very odd clique dynamic to the place that IMHO has emerged as a more recent thing, I feel it was more open a couple of years back with more variety. Now I get the impression that to many are playing it safe in a way that is getting both boring and dangerous. Seeing an IWC Ocean 2000 for example sat around for a week unsold at £2K was painful (I can remember seeing what was ISTR the exact same watch sold for the same money 2 years ago as an SD!), then however any number of SS Rolex sports models sold quickly at what is IMHO full market for a forum even in the good times. This to me is dangerous, one has to question the motives as I feel personally there are a lot of ppl looking at a watch as a safe investment and they are gravitating to a tiny short list. No one can deny that the SC has been painfully slow in recent months, almost depressing even. The problem is anyone that has been around a while will know that the 'It' watches are self fulfilling destinies, all it takes is a few well known ppl on various forums to keep talking up particular models and it creates the market. The danger is that this narrowing of the market can effectively end up killing it. I know that for me personally there will be no new purchases for a couple of years. I will still drop in from time to time though as I made some really good friends through TZ-UK.I take no part in the in-crowd banter but its just like most specialist forums, there's a hard core of regular long term posters and a large number of more infrequent occasional posters like myself.
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
squeezebm said:
Mc lovin said:
I have spoken to Dom, i think he is right, i shall put it up for sale on here for £4250, its a hefty loss but i can deal with it.
Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
One will offer to give you £3000 for it . Its a shame though, it's an exquisite watch, but not something i can wear, its just far too nice.
what is the best way to photograph a watch?
Today
stockings yes pants NO ! £2.8K is a lot of money but be quick as I've got my eye on something else
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