Men's Journal: Eric Wind Quoted Buying Vintage Watches
Stinson Carter and Ben Clymer recently wrote for Men’s Journal ‘The Ultimate Guide to Buying Vintage Watches’. Within the article, Eric Wind is featured..
“Birth year watches are lame,” says Eric Wind, the former watch buyer for Christie’s auction house who now runs his own online shop, Wind Vintage. “It's better to focus on condition rather than on rarity or year,” says Wind. This is just one of many details that collectors sometimes get fixated on that makes no sense to the pros.
Wind feels the same way about people who are obsessed with having the original paperwork for a vintage watch they buy. "Saying you only want to buy a vintage watch if it has the original box and papers is the equivalent of walking around a high school with a ‘Kick Me’ sign taped to your back—except it says, ‘Rip Me Off.’
Wind also says that a large percentage of the papers he sees tied to vintage Rolex watches aren’t even real. “They're either outright fake papers or unfilled papers that someone purchased and filled out to match the watch,” says Wind, who dispenses his vintage watch wisdom in lectures to the Horological Society of New York. Wind refers to Instagram as “the best and worst thing to happen to watch collecting.”
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