What time is it? Watches and horology

Mwah ha ha ha. This time next year, our 007s will be worth 10k

Good plan, I'll try that.

My Omega is back form servicing. Gotta go collect it later this week.

I hop they've made it look like new because it was fucked when I took it in.

the problem you'll have is that a lot of great brands went bust in the mid 70's due to the oil crisis and the huge shift to quartz movements. So buying a '79 dress(ier) watch is going to be a little tricky as there wasn't much about.

Perhaps a Longines or Omega Geneve might fit the budget? Otherwise there're plenty of lovely watches in your budget from the early 60's if you don't want a '79 manufacture date. I'd start with a Tudor oyster date

Edit: haha exactly what @inchpincher already said :)

I irregularly browse Chrono 24, eyeing up 1985 watches in preparation for my 40th (got a few years yet), and came across this today:

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/heuer/titanium-automatik-chronograph-3420-ref125206--id8402797.htm

No box, no papers, not really mint, but still seems cheap at £800ish. No idea of values tbh, but other Heuer chronos seems to go for 2k mark and this is titanium too so I'm surprised. Unloved case shape?

That’s really nice for an 80s watch

I think you’re right, it’s just a bit marmite. ‘85 was the transition year into Tag Heuer so it’s quite late production, apparently the bracelets were a weak point... https://forums.watchuseek.com/f29/fs-vintage-heuer-titanium-chronograph-automatic-lemania-mint-condition-reduced-746409.html

Orrrrrrr you could get an 80s Rolex (insert classic model name here) and be done with it :-) You've plenty of time to save!

1985 watches in preparation for my 40th (got a few years yet), and came across this today:

Just in case you haven't thought of this, buying any sentimental items that will be 40yo from 2024-25 will have a hefty premium. Equally not many people will be selling them from ~2021-ish.

Also be willing to be a bit flexible on the year as any "year" is always a bit vague.

I've got an 80s Rolex on the way, hand me down from my dad.

That's why I've started looking already, I'm hoping before 2024 I see something I really want and buy it in advance.

I've got my Steinhart Ocean 1 Vintage (wedding present), G Shock, Gold Seamaster day/date (80s), Rolex OP (80s), Citizen day/date dive beater that I'm probably going to move on, so I'm thinking I want a birth year auto chrono. I also have a quartz Seiko chrono I got for my 15th birthday so while I rarely wear it, it was my first watch I wore day in day out that wasn't an Argos £15 Casio special.

"OK so I've done the mock ups, but just ignore the typeface its just a placeholder, one of the defaults from MS Word 98"

"CHANGE NOTHING I LOVE IT!"

Just what I hoped you were going to say. Might get a safe to house my SKX009.

Gotta really love Gundam to drop $5600 on that.

Or an easy profit. 1/300

I'm going to the US next week. Are there going to be any mad bargains? I'm after a junghans or similar thin dress watch.

Whereabouts? You may find some grey market deals. If you are able to order stuff online, somewhere like Topper or Timeless Lux will discount retail prices heavily, too.

hrumf was kinda liking the new Rolex GMT-MASTER II blue/black... retail supposed to be 9k USD but can't find anywhere with it

I'm going to be in Boston this time round, but could wait until I go to Portland a couple of weeks after.

Isn’t that because it hasn’t been released yet and you don’t spend 100k at your AD per year therefore have no chance of getting one?

I think, but I’m not sure, someone here saw one for sale in Australia for around 22000 AUS.

I saw one go for sale hence I assumed it was on sale, but yeah seems to be Septish if you got a reservation in. Ah well.

I saw a previous one for 18k USD... seems stupid for a 9k watch.
Rumor has it with them cutting back to just two variants there might be more supply.

Slightly out of my comfort zone in relation to price! Lol