Swiss Watch Brand - Reputation Not Everything

If you are newbie in watch hobby you need to have Swiss brand in your collection. There are many brands in the market. However you need to know 3 groups of Swiss Made before make a decision to buy.

This group is solely depends on the price in the market and not determine by other factors such as reputation or limited model. By using price factor it will give benefit for those new in watch collection and it will save your time and budget too.

If you are using other factors such as reputation or movement factor to categorise it, it only benefit to wealthy collector and not collector with limited budget.

Swiss brand can be divided into three groups:-

Affordable group

• Price less than $1000.
• Example Bulova Acutron, Hamilton, Rado, Raymond Weil, Tissot, Victorinox Swiss Army, Rue Du Rhone

Mid-level group

• price between $1001 to $10000
• Example Longines, Tudor, Bell & Ross, Baume & Mercier, Bremont, Glycine,Oris

Luxurious

• Price over $5001
• Example A. Lange & Sohne, Blancpain, Breitling, Chopard, Hublot, IWC, Jaeger Le-Coultre, Maurice Lacroix, Oficine Panerai, Patek Philippe, Piaget, Rolex, Vacheron Constatin, Zenith

    

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However there are limitation for this group, for example Omega fall under mid-level group but it also have a model price more than $5000. So this group only can be used as general guide for you.

There are many different amongst three groups especially their movement. Luxury Swiss usually has their own movement and they have invests a lot in research and development.

Usually affordable and mid-level Swiss Made using proprietary movement such as ETA. Even though it is proprietary the quality is still high compare to other movement. Affordable Swiss is your first step to higher level of luxurious watch.

Tips To Buy Luxury Swiss 

When you thinking about luxury Swiss like Franck Mueller it is very expensive. However you the value remains. Additionally you can make a year of mortgage payment if you have financial problem.

Consider buy luxury, it is not necessary new one. Used luxury watch also worth because of the value. Usually used luxury also look like new especially when the owner seldom used, they wear only in certain function. Collector buys the watch because of their interest but somehow they will sell it to get new Swiss model.

You can find luxury watch at affordable price when you joint watches forum, facebook watches group or offline watches enthusiast.

Another tip is do not engraved any name onto the watch because when you want to sell it, the value of the watch will be reduced.

Share these tips so others will benefit from it.