Auctions in Dublin

Pedro76

Just wondered if anybody in here has anyexperience in buying from an auction in Dublin. I saw an auction house in TempleBar is holding an auction next week and I was tempted to see whats available.

ANXIOUS

Pedro76 wrote: »

Just wondered if anybody in here has anyexperience in buying from an auction in Dublin. I saw an auction house in TempleBar is holding an auction next week and I was tempted to see whats available.

Who is it? Can you view the items online?

Wibbs

I've bought from Dublin auctions many years ago. General sales. On the watches front I rarely saw much worth while TBH. There was a lot of 60's-70's stuff, mostly low end quality wise. Though you would see rolexes come up every so often(the steel ones went for small money too. I never bid on any mind you Doh! )The wristwatch is only a century old(give or take) and for much of that century Ireland wasn't exactly swimming in money. Many men and women didn't have a watch and if they did it was mostly a cheap one. More expensive stuff seems to have been "kept in the family". That was my experience anyway. Maybe more modern high end stuff is showing up now, because of the recession?

Pedro76

http://www.jwa.ie/en/welcome.html


There's a catalogue showing their last sale on the site, a few half decent pieces

Pedro76

BTW most of the watches can be found on page 12 but if you're willing to trawl there's a few before this.

foxyboxer

O'Reillys Auctioneers list watches in their auctions.

There is one on the 22nd which contains some Rolex, Tag's and Omega's.

Never been to one (...would like to, times are usually midday-ish) but they might unearth a bargain if you are patient.

sparrowcar

I tagged along with Homer and Mitch Bucannon to an auction a few weeks back. Very interesting to see what money changes hands. Homer has more experience so I'll let him fill you in but I would take his advice and attend a few first to get a feeling for how they operate. The day we were there most watches went for much more than they should have. It would seem to be very easy to get into a bidding war and then realise you could have got the thing on TZ or WUS for 20-30% less

HDMI

I tried O'Reilly's out and made one purchase of a lot of three watches, got fairly burned on the purchase. The only thing you will know is if the watch is running or not, after that it is a guessing game. Two of my mine needed repairs and one needed a new crystal, by the time it all added up my fingers were scorched and I could have saved a chunk on the swamp.

It's a very small room and hard to get a bid in, catalogues disappear quickly on the day. They take about 3 hours to sell off the whole catalogue, gold watches get the room going and made me wonder if the buyers were just going to melt them for gold value.

If you plan on buying be aware they only take cheques if they know you, if not it's cash, they have no credit card facility. Previewing the watches is a must and go a day or so before hand because you cannot see them while the auction is going on, just a preview pic on a screen.

For fun it was great gets the heart beating faster as auction fever takes hold, but as an attempt to try save a little cash it didn't work for me.

foxyboxer

Passed James Adams auctioneers and there is one on at 6pm 22nd May.
Might be of interest to you OP.

Homer

bedlam wrote: »

Do you get to handle them prior to the bidding or is it just a viewing from behind a glass case or similar?

They usually have at least two viewing dates prior to the auction and also on the morning of the auction you can have a closer look at whatever you are interested in.

StealthRolex

Curious. Lot 319 is a ladies Rolex with diamond set dial with a guide of 34 to 38

If anyone needs lessons on how to make money on this PM me. Make sure it has box and papers first though. I don't touch anything without box and papers.