Parma Passion für Vintage Rolex und mehr....

[philipp]

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Tropical "Underline" *Rolex Oyster Chronograph up and room with a view into*Milano's Galleria down..

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I always love these power trip meeting up great collectors and passionated dealers from around the world. It was time again to go to Milano and the Parma Watch Show the day after but before I went to Italia, I had a pleasant*stay in Switzerland, at Lago Maggiore, real wonderful place as you can see at the end of this report. For those that have read my reports frequently over the last years, it's no surprise that finding grails Rolex watches has become as rare as winning the lottery. So also this time the amount of new fresh finds of rarest & best quality is getting smaller and smaller.

Logically there's no old Rolex inventory that has been recovered, these times are definitely over. We all come to the conclusion that what we have found and has been discovered the last 20-30 years, is*the amount of great watches we will have to work with. Occasionally one pops up after a inheritance or a rare barn find. Actually this rarity is good in my opinion as now the market can stabilize in top region and start focussing on lower quality. With lower I mean less perfect, still original and unrestored but with a little spot, a lume dot missing or a well used case. This would also mean that less watches get professional enhanced and kept like they have been found, with it's all over matching patina. What I also noticed is that better looking medium rare vintage like a red Submariner or normal dialed Daytona's are rising in price. Almost just as hard procentually as the top lots are or is this happening due to exchange rates..

Honestly I was expecting that my american buddies would had bought everything available as with the current exchange rate they are up to 30% compared to last show but they didn't. Which made me wonder if the american vintage watch market is really as big as the european or upcoming asian, apparently not. Many usual faces I saw which tells me that our hobby is still very much alife. Many new faces, lot's of younger guys*making their move to more rare examples. Except the rarity for great Rolex and Patek Philippe, brand like Universal and specially Longines have become very hard to get, those people who have seen this happening, are probably over the moon so happy with the price explosion.

What really attracted my attention was the fact that I got shown vintage watches in their original condition, with some minor scratches, leaking luminous, dented case etc. Something that was normally*restored before offered to the market. Meaning that the all over knowledge has gained enormously over the last 1-2 years, letting the client decide if he wants to keep it original or get it removed. With this*excellent development most guys are now expecting great results by Philips Auctioneer during their 2 x quality sale upcoming May in Geneva. I also hear that Antiquorum is busy investing their raised*capital properly and we can suspect a interesting catalogue. It's not clear*what the current market leader Christie's in watch auctions is gonna offer us, neither is there any news from Sotheby's yet. I assume my dear friends over there will inform me shortly so I can report it to you again! Let's just hope they will surprise us and offer*interesting & original watches. Anyways, that something we will see in the near future, for now I suggest everybody who's into vintage watches go over to lovely Parma and visite the show which is still opened to next week Sunday! Enjoy my impressions I made for you ;-)

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Above *and below the "Neanderthaler" from buddy Pucci, unique prototype design study with "solo Rolex" on a Paul Newman background in a 6240 case with earliest screw pusher..

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One*handful of rare Rolex Paul Newman is easily 1 million euro now... Who had thought that this would happen one day, not those older dealers telling me at dinner that a Newman back in the days was like 300 bucks, no matter which, lol! Below the rarely seen RCO ( or Oyster down / sotto ), tropical Oyster & gold Newman's..

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Buddy Alex Cianni's relaxed pose wearing 2 marvelous vintage Patek Philippe moon-phase's...

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The stand of Corrado & Lucca from Only Vintage from Roma..

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Davide Parmigiani's stand with some of the watches from his book *100 rare vintage watches for sale

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Very clean Rolex Killy at Corrado...

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Buddy Fabrizio from Caso Watches..

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Up close, the 2.2 million RCO...

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1.7 million early Newman...

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Elefant Ear ;-)

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Tudor square crown at Roberto Randozza from New Old Watches in Milano..

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One of the many vintage Rolex I get to see from the great italian collectors that are coming to Parma... This hand is from Mario

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Interesting Hermes..

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Oman Police Submariner...

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A highly radium lumed*369 Submariner ref 6200...

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Interesting set of rare gold Rolex from yet another nice collector..

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One day I will buy myself a slicing machine like this...

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Early Rolex Daytona..

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Crazy priced tropical G EMME T*

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Full set Red Sub..

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Vulcain..

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Pink Monobloc ref 3525... I love these rare first Oyster Chronograph's..

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Very rare Rolex big size ref. 3335..

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Gold ref 6062 Stelline.. Both up and down for sale at Davide Parmigiani..

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Rare Asprey PPC..

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Bakelite ref 6542 GMT master...

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Dinner with BIG BOSS, his lovely wife and friends, many thanks again Davide!

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While waiting outside as there where no tickets for me to go and see the painting ;Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci

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Just behind the Last Supper in Milano, you find*Max Bernadini's vintage Palazzo...

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Gold Daytona with kinky bracelet..

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The youngsters Eric & Andrew having a rest... This was the most charming picture I took, hehe ;)

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Ref 2508...

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Gold 1463 PPC with breguet numerals..

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Steel ref 570 from Patek Philippe up close...

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Barnfind Rolex Padellone ref 8171 in steel with gold index & matching the "precision" dial from Andrew Shear..

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Italian meat..

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Skipper, where's my beer ;-)*

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Late Monobloc that has a 4500 kind of dial design, serial numbers are between the lugs instead of the case back..

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POW Rolex monobloc ref 3525 directly from the son of the original owner...

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Ref 6238 black at Lago Maggiore...

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Ascona..

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Directly from the daughter of the original owner, full set ref 1675 in unpolished glossy condition...

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Brown and black GMT Master ref 1675..

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Prototype "Pink and Yellow" Datejust design study for Rolex by Singer..

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Honeycomb ref 6305 Datejust..

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Handful of ref 3525 Rolex Monobloc's in all different versions..

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Up close, black 6238..

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And back home again. THANKS to YOU all I met, it was great seeing your passion up close again.:gut:

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[steboe]

Genial!
Danke:verneig:

[Rener]

Was für tolle Uhren und ein eben so schöner Bericht! :dr: Vielen Dank! :gut:

[volvic]

Vielen Dank :verneig:

[XKengine]

These threads are driving me nuts.

Keep it up, please!

[market-research]

WOW!!! Thanks for sharing!

[mller]

tolle uhren und gute fotos!!

mit was hast du die gemacht?
iphone?

dieter

[Mister B]

Großartig! :verneig::gut:

[Morgan911]

Prima.

[Mr. Subby]

Toller Bericht. Vielen Dank, Philipp.

Mich interessiert warum deine 6238 keine Lumedots hat? Ist das so eine Japan Version?

[Chuck_Bass]

Big thanks ��

[Daniel200]

Toller Bericht, Klasse Fotos, Danke :dr:

[mojohh]

Vielen Dank fürs Teilen!

[wavediver]

Wonderful - thx for these insight's !

[Flo74]

GROOOOOOOOOSARTIG :verneig:

[Street Bob]

Landscapes, foods & people maybe lovely, aber als full member of the working class flott drüber gescrollt ....
ABER DIE BILDER DER UHREN !!!! FANTASTISCH!!! AUSDRÜCKLICHES LOB :gut:

Diesen Thread werde ich mir noch oft anschauen, vielen Dank!

[newharry]

Some very fine watches, indeed - love the 6238 :gut:

[kaiserfranz]

Schöner Bericht - z.T. Wahnsinnsuhren - und richtig schöne Fotos - Danke alter Globetrotter ;):verneig:

[Smile]

Einfach nur WUNDERBAR !!!! Freue mich jedes Mal auf deinen Report, alter Freund !!!!!!!! :dr::dr:

[bigsmall]

Fantastisch!

Ich nehme an, das ist keine öffentliche Veranstaltung? Einlass nur auf Einladung?

[Soeckefeld]

Landscapes, foods & people maybe lovely, aber als full member of the working class flott drüber gescrollt ....


Uhren sind super :gut:

[ftum]

Wahnsinn:gut:Danke

[Figaro]

Toller Bericht...Wahnsinns Uhren.:verneig:

[savoy-truffle]

Super Bericht, wie immer Philipp! Danke für´s Teilen!! :verneig::verneig::verneig:

[löwenzahn]

Grossartig, Philipp.

LG

Michael

[Janufer]

Was soll man da noch sagen...:verneig: wie immer Philipp!

Grüsse Jan

[Uhrbayer]

Danke fürs teilhaben lassen. Passion lebt....... :verneig:

[Klaus]

Klasse! Danke :gut:

[philipp]

Toller Bericht. Vielen Dank, Philipp.

Mich interessiert warum deine 6238 keine Lumedots hat? Ist das so eine Japan Version?

Ja habe ich mich auch drüber gewundert, kommt direkt von einem Asiatische erstbester also ja das könnte sein dein Theory, sicher wissen tuen wir es leider nicht. Habe die Serienummer checken lassen und ist in dort auch ausgeliefert würden...

[philipp]

tolle uhren und gute fotos!!

mit was hast du die gemacht?
iphone?

dieter

Genau Dieter :gut:

Seit circa 3-4 Jahren fotografiere ich nur ausschliesslich mit Iphone. Ich sehe daher auch in meinem Archive das die Qualität immer besser wirt was Apple da bringt. Der Trick um scharfe Foto's zu machen ist das Du deinen Arm womit du das Iphone festhältst, auf dem Tisch oder gehen die Mauer dran stellst damit das Iphone & die Uhr beide feststehen und mann nicht zittert..:dr:

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[philipp]

Fantastisch!

Ich nehme an, das ist keine öffentliche Veranstaltung? Einlass nur auf Einladung?

Die Parma Show ist eine öffentliche Veranstaltung, check:

http://mercanteinfiera.it

Am Freitag wenn ich immer da binn ist HändlerTag also noch icht geöffnete fur das normale Public.

Ist noch biss nächste Woche Sonntag geöffnet. Ausser Uhren, gingt es Hallen voll mit Möbel, Antiquitäten, etc. etc. Alles was mann sammeln kann.

&

Danke Werner & Matthias :dr::dr::dr::winkewinke:

[olympia]

Vielen Dank für die tollen Impressionen.

Bemerkenswert ist, dass der Uhrennachschub nicht versiegt - und dabei die Preise sicher kontinuierlich nach oben klettern.

[1325fritz]

Großartig. DANKE!!!

[Bullit]

Super Bericht! Danke, Philipp! :dr::dr:

Gruß

Erik

[haikom]

Schön das Du uns an diesen Momenten teilhaben lässt. :gut:

[Flo74]

Bemerkenswert ist, dass der Uhrennachschub nicht versiegt - und dabei die Preise sicher kontinuierlich nach oben klettern.

Ist auch die Frage, ob sich denn alles verkauft.... und/oder Ware aus Eintäuschen/Rückkäufen wieder "auftaucht...

[Rolstaff]

Wahnsinn !!! Danke Philipp !!!

Wie gerne wäre ich da auch mal dabei. :jump:

Bin aber wohl leider viiieel zu "klein" für diese Veranstaltung.... X(

[Mr. Subby]

Danke Philipp für deine Info
Eine tolle Uhr und kommt besonders auf dem Lago Maggiore Bild gut rüber. :gut:


Ja habe ich mich auch drüber gewundert, kommt direkt von einem Asiatische erstbester also ja das könnte sein dein Theory, sicher wissen tuen wir es leider nicht. Habe die Serienummer checken lassen und ist in dort auch ausgeliefert würden...

[philipp]

Bin aber wohl leider viiieel zu "klein" für diese Veranstaltung.... X(

Nochmals...Jeder kann da rein kommen wenn man den Eintritt bezahlt wenigstens ;)

Es geht glücklich auch immer mehr um die Qualität als das es eine super seltene Reference sein muss :gut:

Diese gilt Bombe habe ich meiner Frau mitgenommene. Happy Wife.. Happy Life :D
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[ein michael]

Danke für das Zeigen und Teilhaben lassen:gut:

[Mr. Joe]

Thanks for sharing, Philipp.

Unbelievable impressive.

[frankw61]

Toller Bericht ! Herzlichen Dank , Philipp :dr: