Citizen 8110 Value Climbing

[stavers]

As per the title, I stumbled across the Citizen 8110 movement about a year ago and became quite smitten with them being an automatic flyback chrono with day (in two languages!) & date. At the time a mint one was going for around £65 on eBay. I shoved the though to the back of my mind seeing as I had enough watches and thought no more about it.

Starting a new job with a little bit of cash I thought I would re-visit the 8110. Now to find that nice ones seem to be going for >£125 and some for >£200!! Anyone have any clues as to why there is suddenly a 100% jump in price in the space of a year?

[marcosgt]

I guess they've just got popular - £65 sounds very cheap, especially considering what a similar Seiko will sell for.

Prices of Citizens often trail Seikos (for no explicable reason, really, perhaps parts are easier to find for Seikos?), but when a Seiko starts to climb in price, similar Citizens often follow (at least from what I've seen).

The bullheads might be getting more popular because of the recent Omega release(s).

M.

[stavers]

marcosgt said:

I guess they've just got popular - £65 sounds very cheap, especially considering what a similar Seiko will sell for.

Prices of Citizens often trail Seikos (for no explicable reason, really, perhaps parts are easier to find for Seikos?), but when a Seiko starts to climb in price, similar Citizens often follow (at least from what I've seen).

The bullheads might be getting more popular because of the recent Omega release(s).

M.

They were very cheap. Wish I could have afforded to get a few!