[LeeH]

Going to try and "Reader's Digest" this as much as possible...

I'm a watch fan. I probably have 40 or so if you count every single one in my possession. Most are vintage Seikos divers, some Citizen, Casio, etc. I've been kicking around liquidating most, or all of those and buying a single nice watch. I could easily buy a new Tag Heuer by selling 2 or 3 of the old Seikos, or keep the nicer Seikos and sell off everything else.

My dad left me some "heirloom" items that meant a lot to him, but have little to no meaning to me. One of those is a 50s or 60s Hamilton Tuxedo/Top Hat watch in the original box, some Eastern Airlines memorabilia.

My thought is to sell his stuff, maybe slim down my collection and buy a watch for around $3000 or so... thought being that the Eastern stuff is only ever going to sit in a closet and the watch would be something I would cherish.

My favorite watch is a stainless Rolex sub. That's just more money than I'm going to be willing to spend... even used.

What watches are high quality, will retain their value, have the look of the sub, not be so expensive that I'll just leave it locked up in a safe and fear putting it on my wrist? Feel free to analyze my selling of the family heirloom justification also. Frankly, I am still wrestling with that concept a bit. I have one kid who never met my dad and couldn't care less about Eastern Airlines memorabilia, but I still have a twinge of guilt at the idea of selling off my dad's stuff.

Thanks!