Why the year end deadline? I’d love to be proven wrong but there’s just no chance this sells at 80k via Substack within 3 weeks. We all appreciate and get the significance and rarity of the watch but the market is just not ready for a vintage GS at this price imo, and probably never will be - for 80k USD you can now buy a Journe Chronometre Bleu, a Nautilus, 3 steel Panda Daytonas, a 15202 AND a Streamliner, a DB27, an LM101, or even an RM05. If the goal is to genuinely sell this, it would have to be at auction and if it did sell at Phillips for that price the ancillary benefits would probably be great for us all.
Why the year end deadline? I’d love to be proven wrong but there’s just no chance this sells at 80k via Substack within 3 weeks. We all appreciate and get the significance and rarity of the watch but the market is just not ready for a vintage GS at this price imo, and probably never will be - for 80k USD you can now buy a Journe Chronometre Bleu, a Nautilus, 3 steel Panda Daytonas, a 15202 AND a Streamliner, a DB27, an LM101, or even an RM05. If the goal is to genuinely sell this, it would have to be at auction and if it did sell at Phillips for that price the ancillary benefits would probably be great for us all.
1st