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Originally Posted by nmehta211
Hmm never went pre owned. How does JLC compare? I guess it is matter of personal taste as well but how does a grey market JLC compare to a pre owned vacheron in terms of value and appreciation?
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Appreciation is very hard to predict. In general, Vacheron is a more "high end" brand. All of their in-house movements are Geneva-sealed, but many pre-owned and vintage do not have in house - this is a newer thing for most manufacturers. Outsourced ebauches were de rigueur for most of watchmakings history. Vacherons are rarer and finished to a higher level. They are both divisions of Richemont, with Vacheron being the "top" of the pure horologerie food chain for Richemonte. Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels are also Richemont, but more jewelry focused and Panerai is Richemont also, but more niche focused. The "holy trinity" for watchmaking, historically, has been Patek, Vacheron and Audemars.
It all depends what you are looking for in a watch. JLC are great and they manufactured a LOT of the ebauches for other manufacturers for a very long time. When Swatch Group bought up ETA and many other brands and stopped selling the movements, the in house movement took off.