Originally Posted by Chris_in_the_UK
7500 Euro's for this one:-
:shock: that is gorgeous!!!
Most of mine are under £1000 - and a £300-400 price point is more typical. I did spend a hideous amount on a Navitimer last year though. But it was a special occasion, is was a gift (to me, but I negotiated the purchase) and I did get 20% off list. Still over £3000 though.
Just about £2500 on each of these.
Both second hand.(Prefer to go second hand route as you get more watch for your money, and truth be known I am skint!!)
I have a few around this price I would want to get ie Sub/GMT/Seadweller etc and will happily pay this price when funds allow.
This is however how I like to do it, with a superb buy like this for great money
Watch collecting is a disease I have no remedy for
Neil.
£2350 6th October 2001 on my 16610 :D
it'd be nice if i could say it was this one but three days after i bought something else for more, and since then, well,.... sick i tell you :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 392129.stm
:shock: :shock:
Up until now £900 on an smp a few years ago. Although many balk at the price for a single watch you can only wear one at a time. I'm sure if collectors start adding up their modest collections they'll be quite alarmed at overall spend. Sometimes tempting to consolidate in something special but It's just a fact that one watch is never enough . :wink:
Most expensive watch I have bought is getting close to my £2k maximum spend on any one watch and that is my Speedmaster 50th Anniversary Patch. Like a couple have commented, I used to think carefully about spending a couple of hundred quid on a watch, but now if the funds are available and I like it, I will buy it.
Also, have been looking at things slightly north of my self imposed limit - like a second hand Rolex Explorer II and I am sure as soon as I break that disciplined stance, my willpower will go out of the window and he floodgates will open - but I'm not there yet, still enjoying my Speedmaster :)
I felt a bit underwhelmed when I got mine - certainly didn't seem like it was worth the money.
Got to say that after I got over the shock and received my next month's pay packet I started to warm to it and now it's a definite keeper.
Still don't think it's worth the RRP though...
The most expensive is also the one I wear the least...not sure it was a great purchase and every once in a while I think about moving it on, and luckily it'd still land me a few grand profit, which is nice......S/S Daytona, bought before the RRP went silly. ;)
Damasko for me but has definately made me want more expensive models !! Not sure if that is a good sign really
Summed up nicelyNope, me too, so far....I'll get my coat
I can't be the only one who has never spent more than £250 on a watch :shock:
It's not about buying nice cheap things but nice things cheap.....
My lust for Seikos means that I can get some attractive bullet proof watches for far less than £250, and I do love to hunt out the bargains.
Within my el-cheapo collection I have an all original 6105-8110 diver in lovely condition, a 6138-0011, loads of 6139's, a 5m23-6a10 "baby tuna" that is now sitting in a mint nos case, none of which have cost me anywhere near £250 :wink:
About £650 in 1996. It seemed a fortune at the time and I'm not sure if I'd want to spend much more than that now. I don't think I'd ever go into four figures.
It's this one for me, second hand from sales corner a few weeks back.
I have bought a few in the 2k-3k range but haven't gone through the 3k barrier yet. However, I tried on a DSSD at the Rolex service centre in Bexley when I took my Sub in for a service recently (the service guy was really friendly and noticed my Ingenieur), and I can see one in my future!
I've also been hankering after an AP Royal Oak but after seeing an AP service bill on here a couple of months ago I think I'll be waiting a fair few years to scratch that itch!
James.
As far as I can remember, just under £5k for second hand RO Chrono.
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
Wow, £25,001 or more - would love to have the money to be able to think about buying a watch of that value!
My Breitling Superocean is the most expensive (so far) for me, although even that took a fair few years of pursuading of SWMBO.
more than 7000 for me
I think my 30th anniversary Speedy Pro cost me (gulp) £1250.00 in 1999...
And just over £3500 for new incoming...............
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
very interesting poll
You all must be millionaires on here. My most expensive was £100 for a Seiko bellmatic 4006-6027 (and I had to think long and hard about spending that much!!)
A couple of grand for an IWC Portofino dress watch was the most I have paid (so far ...) - but I have several watches around the 1200 - 1500 mark so collectively it adds up.
Luckily my darling wife, a high school maths teachers never does the math on the watch box!
These two for me, both now departed -
Dan
Probably my Panerai PAM217 Destro.
My SDDS :lol:
Which was around the GBP5K mark.
It all started with a Seiko Divers Quartz..and has been rising ever since.
But this has been the most I've spent.
Rgds
Feike
A Rollie GMT Master II "Coke" new back in 1994 which cost me about Oz$5k from memory. Sold it in 2002 for about half that, kinda wish I hadn't now (considering what they're worth now) even though I never saw where the money went with it. Crap bracelet, puny little crown, never better than +7secs per day despite several visits to Mr Rolex's workshop. Bezel fell off (naked GMT = yuk!), refitted it myself. Not a happy relationship, although it was a reliable companion and daily wearer for over 7 years.
I'll admit it - I swallowed the whole marketing/image/"Superlative Chronometer - Officially Certified" guff. 'Bout the only one that comes near to rocking my boat these days is a nonDS SD, but not for the money they go for.
the most expensive watch that I bought is the Rolex GMT steel/gold 116713! I still have it and it's very nice!
But if I could afford it, I would buy more expensive watches (Royal Oak Offshore, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, Rolex Gold Submariner,....)
That could be for things like this:
Or this:
Or even this:
About 2Ks on an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch with glass back.
Aw - you serious?? I love those older Milgausses - didn't know they went for so much. Pity. I need to earn more money. :?That could be for things like this:
Such is life....i would have required counselling...Not 100% sure, but I think a spring bar failed, parked my car in a free 2 hour slot, checked my watch, then a short while later checked again to find a bare wrist .. such is life ..
Best wishes.
Such as?.................
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
IWC Portuguese 5001-07 - however I managed to get a whopping 24% discount by buying two watches from my IWC AD - bargain all round!! :wink:
£112 on a lovely (imo) Orient from the SC :)
£3800 on a PAM...
£2500 on a Sub no date. Also the only one i've bought new.
the most expensive watch was a planet ocean £1700 . In the menders at the moment! gutted ! i brought this when they only done a two year warrenty and it went wrong after two years and two months, its been at the menders for five months now while i try and claim from my credit card who are trying to play hardball with me! :evil:
Before...
and after...
:mrgreen:
JLC Reverso Grande Date. List at the time was £5495, managed to snag it practically unused for a signifcant saving on that. Conversely my transitional 5513, which I bought for about £900 in NYC a few years back, is now worth 3-4x that depending on which eBay listing you believe...
A lot of bloody beer mats in that case Mike :lol:Before...
and after...
:mrgreen:
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
My old UN Maxi Marine (at 3.5k) - which in fairness was a cut above everything else ive ever had (even the ones that had the same or greater RRP)
The only one close - B&M Capeland XXL - which when the sun shines again i will have!
Mike, your hobby is collecting watches...Before...
and after...
:mrgreen:
...is your vocation arms dealing?! :D :lol:
I am sure I saw that brief case in Lord of War :wink:
Just beautiful.
Dave
£220 on a Bathys quartz on the SC.
Don't think i could spend much more than a SBIII.
But a Bathys Benthic or Seiko MM300 could persuade me.
That's assuming i could ever even think about affording those of course
Which i can't
Most I've spent to date was £2,300 on a Breitling Superocean and I love it.
£250 On a Seiko, Like many others here could spend much more.
~£700 on the Oris TT1.
Saving up for the next one, but safe to say it'll be <£1,000
The 70 EUR I spent in 1989 for a Swatch were at his time for me much more then the (about) 1.200 EUR I spend 1995 for a 14060.
So the most expensive would be around 3.000 EUR for a 16610 but this still is less then the 70 EUR in 1989 :-)
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