It depends on how long the LV is going to stay in production... SD is already discontinued and it seems like not too many people are keen on the new DSSD, so demand has pushed up the price. On the other hand if Rolex announces the new Sub next year at Basel and LV gets discontinued, the price increase can be dizzying...
I think SubLV is a more "meaningful" rolex... it started production from 2003. So if rolex stop its production this year, it has only 5 years of production. So it still relatively "rare" when compared with other models.
On the other hand, Rolex can keep on producting the SubLV until their 60th Anvi... who knows... then it will become a "meaningless" rolex...
I think buying a watch also depends on a person's personality.
Some like their watches in colours like red, yellow, purple, and etc. For example, the Rolex TT Sub has a wonderful blue dial and many loved it but there are just as many who don't buy it because it cannot match the clothes they wear on a daily basis.
I know of someone who thinks that if you get a Rolex, you need to get the one loudest design/colour so that people know you have "arrived". The same analogy goes for the Coke, Pepsi and Kermit: if it matches your style of wardrobe and/or persona, then go for it.
So the bottomline is: value is perceived in the eyes of the beholder. A Pepsi/Coke/Kermit/TT doesn't appeal to me regardless of the "resale" value now or future, because I am not a trader and secondly it does not suit my style of wardrobe. People like me only like classic stainless steel/black/rose gold bezel with black or white face and no cyclops.
In my younger days, I always wonder why Rolex make such an ugly watch with cyclops..... As I gets older, I really appriciate the cyclops, it really helps in reading the date, make it much easier with my failing eye sight...
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