Financial Times: Eric Wind Quoted on Presentation Watches
Journalist Kate Youde recently wrote for Financial Times ‘Collectors warm up to obscure presentation watches’. Within the article, Youde discusses interesting presentation timepieces with Eric Wind, including those from Domino’s Pizza, Winn Dixie, Calvert Distillers Company, and even Honda.
“Domino’s Rolexes were selling for under $2,000 five years ago, recalls US dealer Eric Wind, owner of Wind Vintage. Prices started to rise in 2020, he says, but “everyone took notice” when one sold at Christie’s for $20,000 — four times the low estimate — in October that year… “I’ve seen people, because they have the [previously undesirable] dial that they threw in the drawer, try to put it in another watch and often it’s incorrect for the serial number,” says Wind. He says the Domino’s Rolex has kicked off a “tonne more interest” in presentation watches generally, particularly those with a corporate logo on the dial, as Rolex no longer offers that personalisation service. Domino’s still gives a Rolex Air-King to store managers who exceed sales targets but the logo is on the steel bracelet rather than the dial. Earlier this year, Wind sold an Air-King given by Calvert Distillers Company of Maryland in 1977 and a Rolex Date made for the 1985 Honda Bowl, which he thinks was awarded to the winner of a motocross event.”
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https://www.ft.com/content/63c6da8c-d6bd-40a0-99c4-3e3ff7d45fc2
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