Selling, Swapping or Wanted Watches & Timepieces *Please read rules in 1st post**

4K watch unless you get very lucky. Trade against another over priced watch might be easier pill to swallow.

Here is another lad also at is misguided to think it’s a 5k watch, won’t take images, and won’t allow viewing as such. Good luck with the sale there on that lol

https://www.adverts.ie/27687028

That lad is utterly deluded if he thinks that keeping it in a safe deposit box is an acceptable reason for using stock photos and knocking back viewings.

I reckon €4k - €4.5k on a private sale is about right and if I was selling? I'd be looking to crystallise that sale asap as prices are on the decline IMO.

Such modesty.

Nah I am just the master of brining it out in others via transparent self deprecation, but thanks for the positive vibes lads. If I had feelings they would be hurt.

Gents what would be a good price currently on a 2021 Submariner 41mm Date plastics still on and full set? Been offered one and hard to know is it worth buying in the current market (obviously it is more than retail!)

C'mon spill the beans, how much have you been offered it for? I agree with 893bet that about €13k would be a good price. It's under €10k retail. At that price of €13k you're probably reasonably sheltered. There's a few for sale in Japan on Chrono24 with an asking price around that level, but the cheapest one in Europe is a good bit more than that.

The above graph posted by 893 is deliberately posted to prove his point that these watches have come down in value in the last 6 months. They have. But this gives a more accurate picture of price development:

You can clearly see the watch had been more reasonably priced until the silly bubble earlier this year, which is now burst. The watch is back down almost reasonably priced again, perhaps coming down a bit further but still worth well over what it was a year ago

chrono prices are much like the inflated adverts tax

here is a funny one, someone made an offer on a watch to have a chat and long story short the person thought the photographs were from a catalogue and then started questioning how a watch can be 2 years old and in such good condition and they want to know my secret.

There are some odd people about lol i have never heard someone complaining the watch isn't battered enough

The biggest problem with 24 pricing is it’s 90 percent dealers. This distorts the market price in private sellers heads.

yeah you might have the cheapest on on C24 as a private seller. Just under the lowest dealer by 50 quid is the classics. But I can buy from that dealer direct and shave off another 5-10 percent. And they have over heads to cover and warranties etc to honour. Private sellers need to get **** real to be honest from what I see.

All this talk of “just a correction” and “market is stable for the last 11 days” stinks of denial/return to normal.

Not seeing the same pressure. I made a few reasonablish offers on a few watches on C24, for curiousity sakes . No one is desperate yet. But that will come potentially.

If this global recession occurs like it could there is potential carnage with job losses etc…..and the price of daily expenses being threw the roof (unlike 2008-12 when there was “value” around the place). But I am not a “recession wisher” like some to be clear but I think things are fine balanced in the wrong direction slightly unfortunately.

With the watches my prediction is that at the moment dealers (you can say the same to a lesser extent for private sellers) are sitting on stock and on the books anyway things are not too bad, they can manipulate Chrono24 prices as they wish to bolster the value of the stock. But thats a lot of cash tied. At some point they are going to have to actually sell these watches. They will sell the older ones in stock longer bought for lower prices. But in time they will have to realise their losses. Somebody is going to be first and at the moment nobody wants to be the one to get in first and get the dosh off what buyers there are out there. Once the dominos start the market will find the true value of these watches.

I was starting to think that the market was stablising, but then I start getting fed the youtubes about how now is the time to buy and that sealed it for me. If it happens real slow maybe inflation will balance it out. but if I was sitting on 10 hulks at 24k and 10 daytonas at 40k I would be **** my pants right now

As for global recession I dont know, certainly it will look very different from the last recession and I dont know what it will look like. Stagflation needs high unemployment rates so I am not sure unless a ton of layoffs in the next while....hard to see in Ireland.

Hello all , selling my as new Cartier santos WSSA0037 grey ADLC . Only purchased it last week on chrono24 but it is just a fraction too big . Willing to let it go for a steal if anyone is interested .

https://www.adverts.ie/27780216

That's some clear out... something juicy inbound?

Just as a minor aside, I've recently had better luck on eBay than I have on domestic classifieds with sub €500 watches.

Things that hadn't moved in months went in days, for more or less what was expected.

I've done a fairly vicious clear out in recent months and sold six watches. I'm now down to vintage non-runners and bracelets to get rid of.

Wow , some crackers there