Is Shugart the only option for pricing vintage wristwatches?

[watchdoctor]

I'm looking for additional pricing guides for vintage wristwatches. Would like to hear from the experts and collectors like me. I collect american and foreign men's wristwatches. No pocket watches.

Thanks

 

[Don Dahlberg]

The best way to value watches is to study the prices paid for identical or similar watches on internet auction sites like Ebay. Follow the auctions and look at completed auctions. Ebay keeps them on the site for 30 days. Be sure to notice condition, because it definitely matters.

This requires that you know what kind of watch you are interested in and what kind of watches are considered "similar". By watches auctions, you learn this as well.

Don Dahlberg
NAWCC volunteer

 

[everydaycats]

The gap between what I consider high-end watches and the average vintage watch is vast. If you are looking to value the average watch such as Bulova, Elgin, Waltham, Benrus, etc., etc then eBay is about the only way to get it done, but you need to consider condition because as the other reply stated, it matters a bunch.

If you are looking to value a high-end vintage watch I would suggest you shy away from eBay because you will find values are all over the map.

If you are still around, what kind of watches are you trying to value?