Eric Wind's Collecting Vintage Watches, Part II, is now available: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qbelZap0x6quXas.html

This was a fantastically educational lecture with wonderfully dry bits of humour!

Fantastic information. Worth a re watch, Eric really knows his stuff and I was shocked at the Auction portion of this video!

Great lecture! That pearl of bahrain story was mind blowing.

Great speaker! This guy knows his subject and did a great service for all of us!

HSNY! Grateful for the society and the perseverance

Incredible presentation. Thank you, Eric!

thanks for sharing this great lecture !

Very helpful and educational video for watch collectors who are passionate about watches. Truly appreciated ! Thank you. ⌚

Excellent - Eric is GREAT

Fantastic...thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge of watches with us all.

Great info. Well presented.

Great presentation. Thanks, Eric

Great content! thank you for this upload, looking forward to other seminars!

A crappy watch with papers and box is still a crappy watch. TRUTH.

So much valuable information!

Great video. Thank you for the sharing :)

i have noticed on a couple of occasions when at auction ( classic car ) the hammer has come down quicker than it should with no attempt to sell or promote a particular model ( from experience with my 1956 bentley continental ) and im sure it was because the auctioner knew the bidder .So i am wary of selling at auction

Fantastic video. The guy was so good. I inherited my grandfather GMT Pepsi which is a non hacking movement so I don’t know how old it is but since this is a family lineage watch which will never be sold no matter what prices go to I had the watch serviced at Rolex. I plan to wear the watch also which is why I did the service. Rolex insisted I change the dial because it had some issue with authentication which I have no clue what that was about but anyway I let them replace whatever was worn out and bring the watch back to life. I’m so happy with the watch it looks brand new and sparkles! I know many may think this is Heresy but like I said it’s going to my boys when I pass and I plan to wear it for many years which is why my grandfather gave me the watch. Anyway yes for what I spent on the service I probably could have gotten an OP at retail but that would have defeated the point of this entire journey. I know I did what was right for me.

Eric breaks like the Wind.

Great stuff, thank you!

i just got a CYMA tavannese machine (1930/1939) 35ish mm diameter 15 jewel , military watch with empe B-Uhr type 1 WW2 Luftwaffe Navigation Watch "inspired" CYMA dial , the caliber apears to be a variation of the 7 caliber series, this is my first antique watch , just bought it , i just wish it was a good call for 150 bucks, i love how it looks , i dont know if i should try to sell it at a higher price or keep it, i just so badass.

Great lecture! I too find the jealousy and vitriol on watch forums to be awful. I've been booted from a few forums for trolling Rolex haters right back.

I wonder what the person at Rolex thinks when they get an untouched vintage Rolex on the desk, "Aha nice one, never touched and rare as nothing else, lets polish it....".

will the esteemed Horological Society of New York welcome the Grand Pontiff of Horology, (inventor of the wrist watch check) Archibald Chesterfield III? I believe we can all benefit from an appearance of the Pontiff.

Great talk

Fantastic talk, very Rolex for used which I didn’t expect. I’d love this man to value a watch I bought second hand in my family jewellery shop 40 years ago. 18 ct gold onyx and tigers eye dial and diamond bezel. Is there a way to contact him? I’d pay for the vaulation

Grading them like coins would mean they don't get worn. Ever.

Well Eric, wonder about your thoughts on double retail 5711s? Now,(2021) going for over triple retail. Lol

1:23:46 what an awful prediction considering the last couple years

19:14 Why are you assuming birth year and condition are mutually exclusive?

Anyone who even says "Birth Year" makes me vomit..

23:10 spoken like a watch wizard.... Find other new curious different watches

If a watch is unattractive to you.... Don't buy it.... The monetary "profit" you may make is not worth the time you spent looking at an ugly watch.... An ugly watch is like an ugly wife....

I completely disagree on the topic of "birth year" watches. If that is what draws someone into watch collecting, or more specifically the vintage watch game, so be it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it other than you don't like it.... otherwise decent video.