A Good Reason To Buy A PW

I had a email from someone saying that the best reason to buy a watch is because you like it.. Sort of sums it all up. Thats exactly why I buy most of them. At this time, future resale value doesnt even enter into it. My available cash to spend plays a big part!!

[Tom Huber]

How about you just want to know what time it is. Tom

Every fine vintage mechanical pocket watch is a distillation of ingenuity and craft. They look great and feel good in the hand. They give one a connection to the pre-quartz and pre-electronic past. They are almost as much fun as vintage motorcycles.

And there's more...

[Jon Hanson]

Reasons, a few:

Antique, mechanical, inventive, historical, researchable, reparable, reasonable, intrinsic, artistic, made by famous inventors, wearable, operational, relatively easy to store or ship, fun to hunt, beautiful etc., etc.

Jon

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Jon Hanson, nawcc#8801
President and moderator chapter 149

[Dr. Jon]

From a value sense it is hard to beat a pocket watch.

A railrod watch has a nifty tradtion and is the product of one of the most sophisticated manufacturing infrastructures the world has seen.

Consider the performance, observable quality and the fact that you can get one of these for a small fractiono of awrist watch.

Also you can open the back of a pocket watch and see the movement without risk of ruiining its performacne with a mote of dust.

I have found that with care good dress slacks are availabel with watch pockets sop wearing it is not so hard to do.

I like all types but for value both financial and historic pocket watches are the place to be.

Lastly, when some bore, like an advocate of pocket watches, is talking your ear off, popping out a hunter case flipping it open to check the time sends a message in a way that can not be done with a wrist watch.

[rrwatch]

How many other 100 year old mechanical devices (other than clocks) are just as useable today as when they were new?

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Ed Ueberall
NAWCC #49688

Ed wrote:
How many other 100 year old mechanical devices (other than clocks) are just as useable today as when they were new?

That's so true. I teach college computer courses, and I wear a pocket watch. While discussing the fact that 1 year in a computer's life = about 20 years in a human's life, I love to ask my students how useful they think their new PC will be in 100 years (or even 5 years). Then, I ask them if they own ANYTHING that will still be usable in 100 years. Then, I show them my 90 year-old perfectly usable Howard pocketwatch. And, once Ed's done restoring my grandfather's 1915 Hampden, that will be the watch that I'll show my students.

Plus, to my way of thinking they are simply COOL!

Charles

[Greg Davis]

I buy them because you lot got me hooked on them. Now I'm a PW junkie, and going broke much faster than I did as a WW junkie.

- Greg