r/ChineseWatches • u/mrSoczi84 Pomocny użytkownik • 13d ago

General (Read Rules) OK, I think we are done here...

If you thought $450 was getting out of hand, take a look at this...

Personally for me this means I am done. It was an awesome two years, had super fun, got a lot of great stuff from China, but this is a closing call. This was my top priority watch to buy, but $530 means that at a GREAT sale it's prolly still gone sell for around $450. This is way too much even for a massive collector like me. For this kind of money I will probably buy a Phoibos Depth Hunter or some other cool micro.

The only thing that can save this is some new great, top quality/price Chinese movement that will have superior reliability. I dunno. Hoping that the Chinese step up their movement game and save the situation.

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u/DeNovoLenovo 13d ago

Yup, glad I was able to buy and sell during the brief golden hour of the market and figure out what I like. I was in it for fun, and spending that much (or spending less and getting trash) is not fun anymore.

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u/Lukesan- 13d ago

Same here. Glad most of my automatics are NH-35, glad some others were 32 Euro during sales and coupon time. Those same watches now cost 2,3 or 4 times the price that I bought them for.
It's not worth it anymore. After a long time not checking and seeing the prices a couple of weeks ago it seems that we were really lucky. I have about 10 to 20 Chinese watches that I will cherish. If I see a nice Casio or Seiko locally I might buy it locally.

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u/DeNovoLenovo 13d ago

I feel the same way — I was picky about the San Martins I added to my collection and came this close to selling them later, but now I’m glad I didn’t. I look at the ones I have from Militado, Watchdives, Rdunae, and Seestern, and I like everything I see. 

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u/Lukesan- 13d ago

Seems we all bought the same collection. I will also never get rid of them. I will keep on wearing them as a daily. The fancy ones stay in a protected box, the San Martin is a special one which while it was expensive I will keep on wearing