My Biggest Watch Collecting Mistakes | Watchfinder & Co.

if you're looking for a tale of joy and prosperity look away dear audience we've all made mistakes some more than others but what I am about to present before you is nothing short of a watch collecting nightmare but it is no terrible dream it is the truth awake and intact and it shall forever haunt me look away dear audience look away these are my biggest watch collecting mistakes you have been warned watch finder the pre-owned watch specialist now available in France Germany Switzerland USA and Hong Kong so we can keep on making great watch videos I'd really appreciate it if you subscribed to the channel if you already are it really does help thank you the first mistake is not the first watch that I owned but rather the first watch on which I spent more than I probably should have much of the cost was afforded by selling and non-date Submariner that's pre ceramic and the rest by caving in the head of my unsuspecting piggy bank it's broken shards sharp and brittle would have been considered the foreshadowing of this next endeavor had I had the foresight to see it it wasn't so much the purchase of the watch that was the mistake it was 2011 five years after Rolex had bestowed the GMT master to and indeed the Rolex brand with the bezel formed from the futuristic indestructible deeply glossy ceramic perhaps Rolex was a little late to the game but its execution was nothing short of perfection deeply crisp numbers coated in a fine mist of platinum made in my mind at least the aluminium bezel of old feel antiquated by comparison and that was far from the only benefit procured by ditching the old and fostering than new the GMT master to introduced a fresh case sturdier and more of its time along with a bracelet that dare I say it make the outgoing feel like it had all the solidity of an easter egg it was the framework for the entire collection going forward and I was getting in on the ground floor would you believe it I purchased that rolex gmt master 2 ceramic with box and papers the lot for 3500 pounds but this story like all the others to follow does not have a happy ending I enjoyed the watch for a year two at the most before my eyes started to wander but I was cocksure knowing that my purchase would return me what I paid for it if not very close that I had enjoyed my time with it for free so when the watch departed me wrapped in foam and brown paper I was feeling rather smug but it wasn't to last because the watch that followed a Panerai although I enjoyed it did not fill the hole left behind by their own legs but the Rolex had started to creep up in price new and used I delayed and delayed and delayed until I could no longer afford it that has since changed but knowing that one sat on my bedside table for 3500 pounds not too long ago makes the thought of repurchasing it for two to three times as much appeal impossible to swallow if you need to take a break I suggest you do so now because this tale of woe is only about to descend even further into madness might I remind you that there is no light at the end of this tunnel but even the sweet release of a train it's simply and horrifyingly just an endless black void with no end in sight it didn't seem that way at the time keen to put the GMT master to behind me and eager to climb the ladder of great watchmakers that laid before me I made a decision it could well have been one of the greatest decisions of my life sadly we both know that what might have seemed to be a moment of stunning clarity then can only devolve into absolute disaster Oh what I would give to tell my past self otherwise instead of watching the events unfold over and over as chance had it I found myself in the position to buy an Odom RPG a Royal Oak it is a beautiful watch a pillar that turned the tides on an entire industry an original that spawned as many copycats as it has sights finally I could move on from the Rolex rinse out the bad taste that had lingered for so long and come to own the watch of my dreams it was the most I had ever spent on a watch in my life in fact it was the most I had ever spent on anything that wasn't a car or a house I was nervous I was excited and it was everything I dreamt it would be the finishing would dial the movement every bit as exquisite as they should be from a watchmaker considered at the very peak of its field that could have been it could have been the end of the story a fairy tale come to life but we both know that isn't going to happen an opportunity to move house presented itself and as chance would have it the money I needed to do so was wrapped in a neat little steel bow around my wrist it was no easy decision dear audience no easy decision at all and it was with great sorrow that I parted ways with my beloved Royal Oak I pray that you are sitting down each and every one of you because the price I sold that watch for a watch that commands near on 20,000 pounds today was the same as I had purchased it 7,000 pounds as your head spins and bile rushes to your throat I say take a hold of yourself because the worst is yet to come of course these journeys are not once of immediate recourse they are slow punishing revealing mistakes that bleed like ink wicking through a page taking over piece by piece until they corrupt completely but it's the third and final mistake that excels in its short sightedness in its sole consuming retrospect until there's nothing left to do but weep when you find out why I'm not holding anything you'll probably want to weep too you might think by this point that as an individual partaking in the buying and selling of fine watches that I might have absorbed some level of knowledge or intellect if even accidentally by some kind of cerebro Moses but oh dear audience this is not the low point in the play where the fortunes of our plucky hero start to turn in his favor this is a downward slope leading off the edge of a cliff and onto the jagged rocks below of course I was very aware of what watch as I liked and those I didn't and my I was kept close on the marketplace for something that could match or exceed the Royal Oak I had so enjoyed as you might imagine these were no easy boots to fill there was little out there but could say she ate such a spoiled palate particularly anything within the reach of the price I had paid for the Royal Oak the Royal Oak in all honesty had been a heady decision that second time around with an older head on my shoulders and a bigger mortgage to pay seemed in excess too much nevertheless the pale spot on my wrist seemed to grow uglier by the day it needed covering and covering well and you know what my prayers were answered for all the misery that had gone before a path that I had not even considered treading opened up to me a once-in-a-lifetime chance that despite my clumsy interactions thus far fell right into my lap I would demonstrate the watch that was presented to me but now they are next to impossible to get hold of it was an FB Shawn a chronometric blur it was the most beautiful wash I had ever seen simple yet interesting bold yet suckle outrageous yet sophisticated the price was good ten thousand pounds on the nose it was a chance to own a watch from the hallowed halls of FP Jean it's a watch that now changes hands for over forty thousand pounds and this dear audience is where our tale ends not with joy or satisfaction but with dismay and anguish I passed up on that watch now these stories are all true and as much as hindsight has kicked me up the backside there's an important message to note I got to enjoy two of the best watches out there for absolutely no cost by buying pre-owned and looking after them yes if I had kept them they would be worth a lot more now but I never purchased them with that in mind in the first place it's easy to conflate watches with investing these days because of how prevalent it seems to be but I think that casts a shadow over the real reason why these watches exist to be enjoyed of course I would be very happy to have kept those investments and be able to cash in but I'm even happier to have been privileged enough to enjoy them in the first place so after wall with a really mistakes only when I think about the one that got away discover more exceptional watches at watch finder thank you so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it please do consider giving it a like and subscribing to the channel if there are any watches you'd like to see featured please let us know in the comments below

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Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020