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The considered end of the collection

Vintage watches over £500.

Above £500 the shop does not change character, it just tightens up. This is a small collection, usually around 25 watches including any recently sold, gathering everything priced past that mark with no ceiling above it. It sits a few hundred pounds above the middle of our range, not in a different market: the same honest, inspected, pre-owned watches, just the best-preserved and most complete of them.

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What actually changes above £500

A few things shift consistently once you cross £500. An original box turns up far more often than it does elsewhere in the shop, papers survive more often too, and hand-wound and automatic pieces run at roughly half the collection, well up on their share below £500. Quartz dominates the catalogue overall; above £500 it is closer to an even match.

The names that recur here

Longines appears more often in this collection than any other brand, with Omega and Gucci behind it. That is not a curated shortlist, it is simply which names tend to survive in the condition and completeness that lands a watch above £500.

Not a different market, just its top

Nothing here is being sold as an investment or a luxury purchase. It is the upper end of the same pre-owned catalogue, priced continuously from the watches below it. For the bracket just beneath this one, vintage watches under £500 covers £200 to £500, and vintage watches under £200 the everyday end below that.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a luxury or investment collection?

No. It is the top of the same catalogue we sell throughout the shop, priced continuously with everything below it, described and inspected the same way. We do not sell watches as investments.

How many watches are usually in this collection?

Around twenty at any time. It catches everything priced above £500 with no upper limit, so the count moves as pieces sell and new stock arrives, but it stays a small, slow-moving part of the shop.

Which brands come up most above £500?

Longines most often, then Omega and Gucci. Between them they make up the majority of this collection, though the exact mix shifts as watches sell.

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