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Post by estrickland on Nov 20, 2014 1:12:12 GMT -8
While it's nice to have some new pieces for: the technology (Spring Drive, GPS Astron), environments/jobs you wouldn't subject your vintage watches to, modern proportions, or because you plain can't find the vintage watch you want (talking to you, 5718); in general I'm a lot more interested in vintage watches than new ones.
Used watches have a finder's story - you didn't just dial up Seiya or Amazon - you had to be there at the right place and time for the right opportunity - the right price for the right condition from the right seller.
Vintage watches have a finder's story and also a survivor's story. Just making it 35+ years without getting beat up is pretty cool, and sometimes pretty amazing things happen with or to the watch along the way.
Many vintage watches also have a design story - they were among the originals, building the language in which the modern designs are written. Every new watch stands on the design shoulders of these earlier watches, and most just plain piggyback - not reaching any higher than the originals (but exceptions abound - design and engineering creativity in the watch business is far from dead).
And... it doesn't hurt that many vintage watches (while hard to find the right example for) represent tremendous value, and value which will increase over time rather than drop (unlike most new releases).
TLDR: Have/Like both.
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