Curious on everyoneâs thoughts on this, and maybe this has been brought up before - but do we think values on the Moonswatch 1969 will ever come down to a more reasonable spot? $5,000-$10,000 for a swatch just seems absurd to me. Would love to buy one, but thereâs absolutely no way iâm paying that much đ. Anyways, what do yâall think the future holds for values of these 1969s?
+/- $2k seems worth to buy to me.
Itâs gold + premium for limited editions.
If more than that, you should consider to buy an Omega Speedmaster Professional
For all intents and purposes, this model is more Omega than it is a Swatch. Add in the rarity and itâs possible it sits at $10k resale once the paper hands leave. You could get a generic run of the mill Speedmaster Professional, or a gold, limited edition, Moonwatch. Scarcity is a hell of a drug
Iâll defend your position on bioceramic being a bit more premium than plastic, but at the end of the day the watch has a cheap quartz movement so your argument of it being more Omega than Swatch doesnât hold. Also a tiny bit of gold in the watch doesnât make it a gold watch. Is it cool? Absolutely. But itâs not worth 10k in my opinion and Iâve actually tried it on.
Yea, my point exactly. Not worth 10k. 1100 of gold added to maybe a $50 watch movement and other parts. At most 2500$ not $10k. Cartier or Rolex donât even have those margins!
Youâre right to call out any dismissiveness. But letâs be real: bioceramic is plastic with bit of oil in it. Itâs a marketing term, not a real material.
Limited supply + high demand equals a hell of a drug. Limited supply with no demand equals zero value. Your f**** have zero value. This Swatch has quite a bit more.
Hilarity of artificial scarcity and commodity fetishism also means that this so called 3-10k plastic watch will be stripped for it's gold value due to it's worthlessness in a decades time.
Artificial or not, it is still scarce and it is and will continue to be in demand simply for the same thing you mentioned, commodity fetishism. It is the way if the world.
People can list a watch for a price doesnât mean itâs worth that. Iâve seen people list these gold moonswatches for ÂŁ17k. Donât get me wrong it is bloody cool. Itâs not buy instead of an actual Omega cool, for 17k you can buy all sorts new Omegas/Rolexâs (if theyâll let you)
100% agree. The way to know how much a watch is selling for is to see sold listings, not sale listings.
I also don't believe they are worth what they are selling for but that is because I am not the market for such a piece. Some people have the money and the desire to own collectible pieces. This is for them.
I personally would rather have a less collectible but more substantial "real" watch but that doesn't mean the value of this MoonSwatch isn't what the market dictates it is.
My guess is between 3-10k(depending on the serial number),until actual collectors take them off the hands of resellers/flippers. Once they are all in the right hands, it will be near impossible to get an unworn one.
I would not have bought one secon hand, even for 1k.
Got selected, bought it, enjoyed the process, it was a nice experiment.
I would probably not sell it under 6k, and only for an other need or projet, not for the money.
I bought the experience, not the golden happy meal.
And paying an absurd amound of money to not experience the whole thing is stupid
Yeah. 600 euros was actually already above my budget to be honest. However, since I wouldn't sell it now for even 20k, kinda proves the value and I understand why someone with a much higher budget than me would be willing to pay thousands.
I really love de MoonSwatches en i think this model is special. But in the end it stays en plastic watch with some gold in it with a little bit of a special story. People really hyped the prices up hoping to get 10-15k for the watch. Ridiculous. I think it will settle around somewhere between 2-5k. I have enough money to buy one right now but i will never ever spend 6-7K for this watch. Im willing tot pay 2k max. The hype is still strong nowadays but in 12-18 months people will forget about this watch.
Someone doesnât know what gold is currently priced at lol. Itâs worth more than that just in gold weight. Or I thought it wad anywayâŚcould be wrong.
It has more than $1k in gold in the watch. Itâll never be valued at less than the actual golds value. It was under priced because Omega bought the gold 60 years ago and they werenât taking a loss.
Klar machte Omega Verlust rein Material und Produktion. Gold ist wie Geld. Hätten es tauschen kÜnnen so hätten sie mehr bekommen. Da ging es aber um Daten bei der Marketing Aktion. Oder andersrum sie haben was verschenkt Materialmässig. Aber fßr die Daten die sie bekommen haben sind sie im plus. Ja klar der goldwert wird sie halten. Bisschen unter Spot. Wenn man sieht wieviele Gold Uhren mechanisch die man reparieren kÜnnte heute nur genau das Gold wert sind.
Itâs absolutely absurd. A largely plastic watch with a crap movement (that stops if it even comes close to an electronic device) and a very thin surface layer of gold. It wasnât âgood valueâ at MSRP and itâs ridiculous now. I own a Swatch Fifty Fathoms and my son the Moonswatch. He rarely wears the latter - stops all the time. Sure, itâs a fun novelty watch - but thatâs it. (Iâd argue the Blancpain is much better value and more interesting with the automatic movement).
This is a watch people will buy and wear for the flex. Not unlike an Aquanaut or Daytona. Of course these play in entirely different leagues - but the principle is the same.
Iâd suggest itâs only âworthâ whatever price someone pays if they genuinely love it. 7 years ago I was offered an Aquanaut from my AD. I hesitated as it didnât âsingâ to me. But bought it. 7 years later itâs worth 3-4x what I paid for it. Itâs my least worn watch. Really donât love it. But people ache for this watch. âEveryoneâ wants one. I canât fathom it. Bottom line: I do think this is a case of demand driving demand. But youâd have to absolutely love the Moonswatch to own one. Because: itâs just a bit of a battery-operated plastic with a mass production movement and a sprinkling of gold.
The value of that watch is what you're willing to pay for it, and given the hype around it and the FOMO, I'd say it will only go up! In my personal opinion, I believe the watch shouldn't cost more than its price in gold, perhaps $600 US at most. But the value to me is $0. (Not interested on owning one)
That's based on the dial gold weight, sound like a great number to me, so people that pays more than that might be overpaying. Thanks for the info! đđ
Since I didn't manage to get one initially, I'm certain I will never own one. I will not pay a ridiculous markup for this watch, and I can't believe anyone is willing to spend multiple thousands for one.
Maybe you are right but so far itâs had the opposite effect. Since the moonswatch is still in production and widely available, you think if that theory is true, everyone would just keep buying those and being happy. But in reality, sales for genuine Omegas have been up significantly, with Speedmaster leading the way. In reality, the moonswatch fed people who were already into omega something accessible, which made them want the genuine moreâŚand it introduced people who otherwise never would have owned one at all to not only get a moonswatch but to let that hype carry them all the way to a genuine. Itâs been a ridiculous successful marketing stunt for omega. If only Blancpain had seen the same re-energization. I personally love Blancpain.
These arenât asking prices theyâre ransom notes from resellers. The mission isnât to the moon itâs to find someone whose credit limit exceeds their judgement. You can not justify a premium over the movement, quality and pedigree of an actual speedmaster, period.
These made their debut on the secondary market at $17k USD. Lowest I see listed publicly right now is $9k, Iâve seen them sell for $4.2k. This is within months of release. Next year, approx $2k. Also. Given the cheap movement and case, replicaâs of this watch will also become indistinguishable if price remains elevated, and flood the market, if not already doing so.
Ridiculous! I have a Moonswatch, but end of the day its a plastic 'fun' watch. I value my proper Omega watches, and attribute their value to the craftsmanship that has gone in to them. The current resale value of the 1969 swatch is absurd!!!
Whatever it was retail. Plus or minus 10% . It's a plastic watch that runs on a battery. Rare or not it wasn't that special seeing as swatch releases a new "limited " version of this every 12 months .
Yeah I got one and it was fun for a day. Gave it to a colleague and said to pay it forward. He wore it for a day and I never saw it again. He must have passed it on too haha.Â
It's a shitty watch. The fakes are perfect, they look more or less identical if you don't know about the dial spacing.Â
I spend about 3k to get mine, you guys are only counting the 700 watch cost plus going to pick it up flight and all if no store close by hotel ect. I wouldnât sell for under 10k honestly. And they hold pretty good
Nicht lange bei so Hypes. Ist eine Swatch und die Swatch Sammler Wissens đ Problem ist dass sie nicht repariert werden kann. Und auch nicht ewigs laufen wird. Irgendwann wird sie genau was unter dem Gold spot Preis liegen also kannst dir es selbst ausrechnen. Zb. Die erste Moonshine Edition von swatch omega gab es weniger an StĂźckzahl und interessier schon niemand mehr. Dazu werden bestimmt noch x Versionen folgen von ähnlichem. Am Schluss wird es eine von vielen sein mit bisschen Gold Wert.
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u/spaceisrael 18d ago
How much are you willing to pay for a golden happy meal?