My perceptions and consideration of watches are changing. When I joined RWI I looked for watches I liked to see if they’d been repoed.
After I realised that didn’t work , I looked at watches that were repoed well and considered if I want to buy them.
More recently I think of my dream collection: ceramic sub LN, nautilus 5711, 16613LB, aquanaut 5167, sub 1680, daydate 18238, moonwatch 3572.50, 36mm Datejust , and work towards those.
Ive got a 116610ln and a franken 116234. I think my next gen will be the hesalite sandwich moonwatch for~sud5500. I have the pf5711 and the v6 aquanaut, which are both great but light years from genuine, but cost and waiting list preclude me from anything better. Similarly the daydate is hard to rep because of the gold. Similarly, the 16613LB costs thousands to have a decent rep, at which point I’d prefer to get a gen moonwatch.
Beyond that I’m stuck. Do I franken a nautilus, aquanaut, attempt a bluesy or save up for my next gen?. Or do I buy watches that are well repoed and I think I would like such as the Frank muller casablanca, zf 3714, iwc big pilot, explorer 214270, Cartier santos, noob 116519LN when they rep it?
Its an expensive hobby!