If you want a quick answer to the question of "Should you invest in watches", my answer is No.

Over the past few weeks researching and writing this piece, if you are looking to make money on an investment ( and you don't have $250,000 to spare) then invest in something else. I don't know what that something else is, but talk to your financial adviser, I'm sure they can give you good advice.

At some point in their passion, every watch geek has asked themselves that question at least once. "Maybe I could start investing in watches?". According to Knight Frank's 'The Wealth Report' from 2016 (Last available data), watches as a commodity have grown 5% in the last 12 months, 35% in the last 5 years and 67% in the last 10 years? Sounds great, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, the types of watches that will make serious money over the long term are not going to be available for you or I.

There is a lot of misuse of the term 'investment' when it comes to watches, especially when it comes to sources that are not specific to watches. Esquire's article "10 Watches to Invest in Right Now" listed, among others, the Tudor Heritage Black Bay, the Omega Seamaster Professional 300 (quartz) and the Omega Spacemaster Z-33. GQ's "Best Investment Watches released in 2016" include a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, a Panerai Radiomir 1940, a Shinola 'The Canfield' Chronograph ("In the realm of investment-worthy-but-still-affordable watches, Shinola is always on our list") and the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Ultra-Thin.

In buying the Vacheron Constantin Overseas, you could probably sell it for a figure close to what you paid for it after a few years, if it was in good condition. But the Shinola 'The Canfield'? A quartz watch costing between $850 to $1000? An investment piece? Not in a million years.