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Poll: How Much Are You Willing To Spend On A Watch You Have No Intention Of Selling?
Today’s best watches poll asks the watch hobbyist community the interesting question of how much they are willing to spend on a watch that they don’t intend to part with. First, some context. Why is this question relevant, to begin with? Over the last few years, an investment-style voice has penetrated the traditional conversation about buying and collecting watches. These voices discuss watches not as self-rewards and fun wearables but rather as quasi-financial assets that should be purchased with the later intention of selling them for a profit (or at least with value retention in mind).The idea of purchasing a watch and later reselling it for more money is, no doubt, romantic, but it is also highly unrealistic for most people, and the instances in which a wristwatch purchase increases in value over time are rare. Traditionally, consumers who purchased watches and other luxury goods never paid much mind to resale value - for at least a few reasons. One reason is that peop
TAG Heuer Debuts Carrera Calibre 1969 Watch With Black & Gold Limited Edition
TAG Heuer has just released the first watch to contain its new in-house made Calibre 1969 automatic chronograph movement (debuted hands-on here). It is the limited edition TAG Heuer Carrera 1969 ref. CAR2A60 and is a very modern watch for their most modern movement. While with TAG Heuer at the debut of the 1969 movement in late 2013 it seemed rather clear that the Carrera collection would be the first to enjoy the fruits of their newest manufacture movements. What was not clear was the direction TAG Heuer was going to take in either modern or retro styling.It was a fair question because the name of the Calibre 1969 movement goes back to the year when TAG Heuer (along with three other brands) debuted the automatic chronograph mechanical movement to the world. It thus made sense that TAG Heuer may have wanted to debut the movement in a retro-inspired watch. We have a good feeling that pieces of that nature will show up in TAG Heuer’s collection before long, but for now the Calibre