A few questions about collecting old watches

It depends on whether you buy it to add value or to your own Dai, in principle, if you collect it, it depends on its output and quality, and if you wear it, it all depends on personal preference.

Watches are collectible, but not all watches do.

The main ones that are truly collectible are antique clocks. The older the time, the more it can attract people's enthusiasm for collecting and preserving its value; Rare old clocks, pocket watches, and watches appreciate rapidly and are worth collecting. Of course, modernly made, rare, and fixed-size commemorative watches are also collectible.

Rare is expensive, most of those century-old antique watches are handmade, almost no two are exactly the same, and it also makes the average player unhappy. For example, in the 20s of the last century, the famous Patek Philippe watch factory in Switzerland once customized a gold watch with more than 20 functions for a wealthy European man, which cost about 16,000 US dollars at that time. More than 60 years later, the factory bought back the original for $1.3 million, which shows its preciousness.

In an era when mobile phones are rampant, there seem to be fewer and fewer people with a watch in their hands, and occasionally wearing one is more out of the need for matching and decoration. However, the number of people who wear watches is small, and the number of people who collect watches is skyrocketing, so what kind of watches are more collectible?

Mechanical watches. Why? Craftsmanship is, of course, primary. Mechanical watches do not use any other power, they are driven only by a gear spring, which requires a very high degree of process accuracy. It shows the unique charm and artistic style of precision mechanical timing instruments, which can be called handicrafts.

Even if it has not been worn for a long time, as soon as the watch is worn after winding, the movement starts working, the mainspring generates power, and the watch is able to run immediately. Quartz watches, on the other hand, require batteries to function, and a battery can last for 2 or 3 years, so it is far less collectible than mechanical watches.

The "movement" of a mechanical watch is composed of hundreds of parts, which can be called the "heart" of a mechanical watch, and the "heart" beats after the winding of the mainspring, which is very similar to human beings themselves, and the sound of life never stops. Because the parts can be used for a long time, they have the emotional value of being passed down from generation to generation and maintaining the family, and from the perspective of inheritance alone, mechanical watches are more collectible. At the same time, the appearance of mechanical watches is more generous and textured, and the shock resistance is much higher than that of quartz watches.

There are really a lot of people in the world who collect watches. The collection of watches can fully reflect the history of the development and change of watches. Of course, there are a variety of watches that make people feel cheerful when they look at them.

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