MR PORTER: Eric Wind Quoted On Trends in Vintage Watches
Chris Hall recently wrote for MR PORTER ‘What’s Hot In The Vintage Watch Market Right Now?’. Within the article, Eric Wind is quoted on the trends in vintage watches.
“Condition, condition, condition,” Wind says. “Condition is now trumping rarity, whereas at the outset of vintage watch collecting in the past it was the opposite. People are realising that, for example, perhaps only one out of 100 examples of any vintage Rolex sports model have survived with an unpolished case.”
This is the big question, and the one with the greatest variety of answers. As is often the way, we might be looking at a cyclical return to brands and styles that last boomed between 2013 and 2017. Wind poses a possible return to Heuer chronographs, which “went through a quick growth in values and then hit a plateau”.
“Values have been relatively stagnant the past six years,” he says. “But I think they are truly amazing watches and undervalued in the broader marketplace of vintage watches. And I still think great 1930s to 1940s chronographs from Heuer, Gallet, Angelus, Breitling and more are undervalued and are extremely special.”