Sell or keep with altering taste?

[watchman12345]

My taste in watches seems to alter pretty radically with each new edition. I've lately got the new IWC Ingenieur and I feel like I can't see myself wearing anything else ever again!

It might help if I list what's in the box...

1) IWC Ingenieur Laureus for Sport
2) Omega PO orange, soon to be a super-franken (dial, hands, bezel, sunny crystal, crown+tube)
3) Marlin modded 111 V3 with Y incabloc and long micrometric screw
4) Steinhart gen Ocean 1 Red
5) Ebel Discovery 911 Chrono
6) Vac modded IWC 3717, superlumed and blue AR like gen
7) Quartz Tissot
8) A7750 Navitimer

Recently sold:
Gen Tissot Visodate
HBB V6 SS/CER
Tag carrera Auto A7750
Noobmariner Sub
Pam 029m
Omega SMP 007

As you can see I have bought and flipped (and kept) quite a few watches. My watch box is full and really as a student it's a bit ridiculous. I can afford them, but it's still probably too much to be spending. It's also nagging me slightly that if I sold them all I could afford a gen.

Anyway, I'm thinking of selling the 3717. It was a grail watch for me and the hassle I went to to get it was immense. But lately I just don't seem to be wearing it. I don't know why. I think because when I get a new watch I seem to think they are the greatest and forget about the others. Then it wears off. But I find myself wearing basically the Ingenieur, the Omega PO and the Steinhart with very occasional 111.

I can't sell the Navi because it was a present, and it seems a shame to sell the Ebel for $150 or so since it was such a good special from Toro. The Tissot is worth nothing and wouldn't sell.

That leaves the 3717, which I could probably get a good price for. But I'm afraid I'll really regret it after the trouble I went to for it and how I was basically in love with it for so long.

So forum friends, sell the 3717 or keep it?

(sorry for the borderline rant, I think I needed to see it on paper!)

 

[MMs]

keep it if it's modded well enough for you.

I don't understand how someone can wear the same watch all the time.

the Ingy, it's very blue. you would wear that when wearing a brown outfit?
no way I could do that.

I think, now a days, or this day in age, that watches are not essential time pieces, they
are simply fashion accessories that are badass.

therefore they need to go with whatever it is you are wearing that day, and to me
the very blue ingy can only be worn with a blue outfit that matches it's class level.

maybe it's just me?

dress watch with jeans? no way.
111 and a suit? no way.

so I break watches down by color, material and class level. then have the
collection worked around that so there's a watch for every outfit and occasion.

 

[tommy_boy]

Keep the 3717. Hard to come by, classic piece.

If you don't come back to it after a year, ask us again. Hell, I might want to buy it from you! :lol:

 

[armada26858]

well put Tommy +1

 

[Devo Dan]

keep it if it's modded well enough for you.

I don't understand how someone can wear the same watch all the time.

the Ingy, it's very blue. you would wear that when wearing a brown outfit?
no way I could do that.

I think, now a days, or this day in age, that watches are not essential time pieces, they
are simply fashion accessories that are badass.

therefore they need to go with whatever it is you are wearing that day, and to me
the very blue ingy can only be worn with a blue outfit that matches it's class level.

maybe it's just me?

dress watch with jeans? no way.
111 and a suit? no way.

so I break watches down by color, material and class level. then have the
collection worked around that so there's a watch for every outfit and occasion.

Sums it up for me. Exactly how I look at watches.

 

[boostin20]

I say keep the 3717 if you really don't need the money.

 

[gtanak]

Whats the mod potential for ur 3717? V1 case? If its not, sell it cos it'll never hit grail status.

 

[watchman12345]

Thanks for the replies. The 3717 is a v3. I think a gen dial and it'd be almost perfect. They're v expensive now though.

 

[gtanak]

The case will forever be the limiting factor... Sell it imo.... Or post a pic of a vac 3717

 

[watchman12345]

I always thought the case was ok?

 

[gtanak]

See this sales thread, pic shows V1 case vs Gen

http://www.rwgforum.net/index.php?/...ly-modded-/-Gen-to-Rep-comparison-/-PriceDROP

 

[drbollocko]

The case is near perfect on the rep 3717, it's the dial/hands/AR/Dw/crown that need a bit of attention. hold onto the rep, these may get harder to find in the future. You can always do some mods to it and make it outstanding later. V1 case is almost impossible to find.

Also the PO, depending on how production starts being moved to other models they may also get hard to find, and gen parts aren't getting cheaper, and you've already decided to franken so that's a keeper.

Basically I think you've a great selection, hold onto them all.