I wasn't aware, this is great news. I let my membership lapse as I felt the organization wasn't in touch with the modern watch collectors...with this news I'll pull out my renewal form and renew. I even debated driving to Arlington for the mart...but from past experience at the shows I wondered if it was worth the drive.

Thanks John!

: As some of you know I was recently elected to the board of
: directors of the National Association of Watch and Clock
: Collectors. I am in Dallas now at a board meeting which precedes
: our National Convention. The biggest part of the National is a
: huge watch and clock mart with over 1,000 mart tables full of
: watches and clocks. Before our show an organization you may know
: called World Wide Traders (WWT) put on a mart with about 200
: tables of mostly watches and mostly wrist watches. I visited
: this mart yesterday.

: I can tell you that the population of good Heuer watches at this
: mart was almost non existent. I have always managed to buy
: Heuers at this mart in the past. At this mart there were a few
: beat up 40's and 50's Heuers and a few of the not much desired
: late '70s and early '80s heuers. There were a few Calculators.
: There was not much of a trace of Autavias or Carreras. I asked
: some of knowledgeable dealers I know about this and I got the
: impression they were afraid to sell right now. They don't want
: to sell unless they get the ridiculous prices they see at
: auctions and they think the up-swing is not over. Some of them
: say they Heuers are on their websites or on eBay at BIN.

: I will let you know how it goes at our bigger mart. I am sure some
: treasure will be found. Some people who don't follow the market
: will bring a Heuer or two....but the days of easy pickin's seems
: to be well over.

: JohnCote