3 Discussions and CommentsMember since Feb. 13, 2013
Having just purchased a Big Pilot I joined this forum. I also picked up a 1910 IWC pocket watch converted into a wrist watch. I now read that these marriages have no real value. What worries me is that a watch specialist highly valued the watch and I based my offer on this. Are marriages just for the fun of it or is there value here? Any comments would be much appreciated.
3,732 Discussions and CommentsMember since March 28, 2001
My guess is that only the marriage with your wife could be for fun. It seems that marriages with watches are a sin in the eyes of the watch collectors. Most of the time gold cases of pocket watches are used for other purposes and the movements may get a second life in a marriage: in itself it is nice not to throw such a movement away. So, you get a good movement in at best a reasonable case that may have a unique value to the owner: I would say, only the owner. That watch specialist that made you pay maybe quite some money: he should know better, and he is a cheat in my eyes, not worth to have any relation with in the future.
Kind regards, Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
2,248 Discussions and CommentsMember since Aug. 2, 2001
Personally, I do not object to people salvaging old movements by putting them in new cases. What I do object to is people illegally using IWC's name and trademarks on dials that were never produced by IWC, and selling the resulting "married" piece as real, or using clever wording to conceal the fraud they are perpetrating. In my opinion, this makes the total piece a worthless fake, even if the movement is real enough.
3 Discussions and CommentsMember since Feb. 13, 2013
Thank you for the quick replies. I thought as much. I will have to write this down to school fees. Luckily it's a magnificent piece getting way more comments than my Big Pilot. Will have to live with the fact it's not worth much.
Kind regards,
Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Dick L.
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