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The Regrets of Buying and Selling Watches

HODINKEE Podcasts

HODINKEE

Radio, Society & Culture, Podcast, Watches, Rolex, Horology, Wrist Watch, John Mayer, Daytona, Omega, Leisure, Hodinkee, Talking Watches, Paul Newman, Ben Clymer, Hodinkee Radio, Arts

4.7945 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jack, Cole, and Danny open up about the ones that got away (and ones they were happy to see go).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's me James Stacy, and this episode of Hrinkie Radio is a rare treat because we're doing it live.

0:05.2

Well, not really, but I'm in New York, so we're doing it face to face. No Zoom required.

0:09.6

As such, I've dragged Cole, Danny, and Jack into the offices on a beautiful Wednesday morning

0:14.4

to chat about watches we regret selling and watches we totally don't regret selling.

0:19.3

As I'm sure we've all flipped a few pieces in the past, some perhaps a bit too hastily. It should be a fun walk down memory

0:24.8

lane. Let's get to it. Oh, Hey guys, nice to see your faces in a traditional non-monitor sort of sense.

0:52.0

Although I guess we did this not too long ago in Geneva

0:54.4

It's it's cool to be back in New York. I mean it's not

0:57.4

Functionally cool. It's it's a sauna in the room where we're recording

1:01.0

Jack is complaining a lot. I've muted his microphone. How we all doing?

1:06.0

I'm dying. I'm very warm. I'm just dying. It's that in-between time. I guess you have to

1:11.2

explain though. In New York when the seasons change the heating is controlled by the building right

1:16.4

so that it doesn't necessarily change with the seasons right on time so it's spring

1:20.8

it's nice to put the heat's on in the building.

1:22.5

Also it's a steam radiator and you know typically the steam radiators in Manhattan were designed to to overdo it because a lot of them date from like the night period 1930 to 1960 and the idea was it was thought that if you didn't keep the windows open and keep freshening the air, then measmas that caused diseases would build up inside. So the radiators are basically

1:44.0

designed to keep rooms warm even when it's extremely called outside. This is

1:49.7

reference points radiators? Yes. Well radiators aren't the only ones that were

1:53.5

designed to overdo it. I think that stands for most of us on this recording

1:56.8

today. Look, so we're trying to figure out a topic and something that always

2:02.2

does kind of come up, especially now with how the value of watches has really

2:06.7

Accelerated in the last few years as you look back on stuff and you kind of think like oh, maybe I should have kept that and sold it maybe now or you just regret it because you see a

2:14.2

picture of it on your Instagram or you go back you know deleting photos from your photo roll and

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