Today’s guests are dealers Eric Wind and Charlie Dunne of Wind Vintage.
You probably know their bona fides: Eric was an early contributor to Hodinkee, then became a specialist at Christie’s, before starting Wind Vintage in 2017. He’s one of the world’s most respected and knowledgeable vintage dealers.
Charlie Dunne is Eric’s strongman, vice president, and senior specialist at Wind Vintage. He was an avid researcher before joining Eric in Palm Beach. The pair are fresh off an appearance on Hodinkee’s Talking Watches with Ben Clymer.
Eric and Charlie’s book, Vintage Watches: The Modern Guide, releases on November 17.
We talk about Eric’s passion-to-value scale and how it’s changed as the market’s shifted, the speculation that’s moved into Lange, Journe, and independents, why Eric sold about half his collection and what a two-watch collection looks like for a dealer, mid-century Patek Philippe heading into auction season, the math to make a real return a $10 million Patek Philippe 2499, the dealers making (or trying to make) markets in neo-vintage brands like Blancpain and Ebel, why vintage Vacheron got hot, whether Heuer is a boomer watch, and the fake Paul Newman Eric spotted in one of my GQ photo reports. We also get into why collectors have become so obsessed with being early. Thanks to Eric and Charlie for joining the show.
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Show Notes
The Vintage Watch Podcast, Patreon
The Boomer Watch Is On Sale, Unpolished
The $10m Patek Philippe that sold at auction earlier this year, Phillips
The 16-year-old watchmaker fixing split-seconds chronographs, Unpolished
Fake Paul Newman on slide 10 of this post, Instagram
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