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Bromo33333 wrote:
You can get a Rolex from about $4-7k for the majority of the popular lines within without precious metals (or plating or whatever they do when they make things gold).
Now, compare it to some other "investment grade watches" like Patek Phillipe where the Nautilus starts at $23k, and the Calatrava starts at $16k, and realizing that Rolex is in the same kind of rarified air (albeit at a mugh higher product volume), and you can see that Rolex is a value buy in that category. (And lots of watch companies in the last 10 years sprung up to take advatage of the new money in the BRIC countries where the prices *start* at $30k and go up to hundreds of thousands)
It is all about perspective. And for me, right now, a new Rolex, Patek Phillipe and so on would be a mere pipe dream. Omega would be more realistic, though for now, even that's off the radar as well until I recover form some home improvements just completed and my latest audiophile upgrades.
(Further perspective, the practical side of Rolex discussions are a little off base I think: an inexpensive quartz movement will beat the pants off of any mechanical movement in time keeping, and a rugged enough case for most wear can be had much less epxensive (i.e. G Shock, etc. Serious dive computers can be had from Suunto that will be rugged throughout a dive of nearly any realistic depth) - my conclusion is that Rolex as well as most other fine watches are jewelry - and damn fine jewelry at that!) happy1.gif