Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

[Talbot]

How about a Sea-Gull?

I know, a Chinese mechanical watch?

I don't have one...yet. These are very affordable and very vintage in style.

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[tonypaj]

Check out Ollech & Wajs, both military and civilian, quite affordable...

 

[Canadave]

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You can even get an automatic movement with a sapphire crystal for about $300 on the internet (same ETA movement as watches costing 10 times that). The quartz watches are even less.

Do you mean at an online store, or auction site? I can't find them at that price.

Thanks,

David

 

[StraightEight]

Inherited from my grandfather.

 

[Feraud]

I found a reputable wristwatch repairman to service my grandfather's Bulova.
It should be ready this weekend.
The serial number dates it to 1957.

 

[Talbot]

Melbourne watch repairer

Splatt, excellent history on the watch. It must be very precious to you. I can recommend a very good watch man in Melbourne. He is retired and works from his house specialising in mechanical watches and clocks. He is reasonably priced and can do anything from get it running to a full restoration. He has restored cases, dials and movements for me and can fab parts if required. PM me if you'd like details.

 

[splatt]

Thanks Talbot...I'm certainly a bit over-protective of it.

And its history is definitely interesting...if only watches could talk though, as this one would have some great stories to tell

 

[JEEP]

Talbot: You collection is fantastic. If you ever wish to part with any of your Omegas I would be happy to be given the privilege to make an offer for them.

Splatt: A fantastic history - and a really nice "average Joe" watch of the time - it is rare to meet someone willing to put money and time into restoring these small pieces of everyday history. I tip my hat to that. I have a lot of watches like that laying arond, but the money always end up being spend on restoring an Omega or rarer a Revue.

Feraud: What a beauty. Is the case slightly oval or is it just the perspective?

StraightEight: Nice heirlooms. Treasure them. Sometimes when I look at my collection I get a little sad, knowing that many of them are heirlooms that has been sold for profit, with no regard for the item's history, by children and grandchildren.


I am quite busy at the time, bit I couldn't resist popping in to show this beautiful pair:

Two Omega gents dress watches (cal. 256 - 36 mm. cases) - both from 1950/-51. Except from the colour of the dials they are absolutely identical. I cal it my day and evening set


Regards.

Jakob

 

[Feraud]

Feraud: What a beauty. Is the case slightly oval or is it just the perspective?

The case is round. I recently had the watch serviced and it is running perfectly. It is my everyday timepiece.

Those Omegas are very nice too.

 

[Talbot]

Talbot: You collection is fantastic. If you ever wish to part with any of your Omegas I would be happy to be given the privilege to make an offer for them.

Splatt: A fantastic history - and a really nice "average Joe" watch of the time - it is rare to meet someone willing to put money and time into restoring these small pieces of everyday history. I tip my hat to that. I have a lot of watches like that laying arond, but the money always end up being spend on restoring an Omega or rarer a Revue.

Feraud: What a beauty. Is the case slightly oval or is it just the perspective?

StraightEight: Nice heirlooms. Treasure them. Sometimes when I look at my collection I get a little sad, knowing that many of them are heirlooms that has been sold for profit, with no regard for the item's history, by children and grandchildren.


I am quite busy at the time, bit I couldn't resist popping in to show this beautiful pair:

Two Omega gents dress watches (cal. 256 - 36 mm. cases) - both from 1950/-51. Except from the colour of the dials they are absolutely identical. I cal it my day and evening set


Regards.

Jakob

Jakob, thanks high praise indeed. I have just gone back over your previous posts on this thread and have to say you have a sharp eye for a really beautifull time piece. You have an outstanding collection. I love the crisp simplicity of a military watch with a subsidiary dial. To me it says purpose and elegance at the same time.

 

[splatt]

Splatt: A fantastic history - and a really nice "average Joe" watch of the time - it is rare to meet someone willing to put money and time into restoring these small pieces of everyday history. I tip my hat to that. I have a lot of watches like that laying arond, but the money always end up being spend on restoring an Omega or rarer a Revue.

Thanks Jacob. Other than photos, the only things still around that my father brought with him are his boat ticket, suitcase and this watch...so i figure the watch is worth looking after.

I'm not usually a fan of a silver colour in watches, but...the silver case, black background and gold highlights work really well together in that Omega...nice

 

[freebird]

Marked Jenson Herzer & Jeck -Nashville and Swiss Made on the face. A friend of the the family gave it to me years ago, and it spent 15 years in the safety deposit box. I have no idea what it's value on the market would be, but being a gift, it will never be sold as long as I'm breathing.

 

[JEEP]

Jakob, thanks high praise indeed. I have just gone back over your previous posts on this thread and have to say you have a sharp eye for a really beautifull time piece. You have an outstanding collection. I love the crisp simplicity of a military watch with a subsidiary dial. To me it says purpose and elegance at the same time.

Thank you sir. My military Omegas are the most prized pieces in my collection. I hope to find a reasonably priced 40's RAF Omega one day to, but so far I have been in vain.

I am doing a major cleanup of my collection - selling off almost all watches that are not Omegas or Revues - in order to collect funds for new purchases. If you are interested in some of my non-omegas or -revues please PM me.


Regards.

Jakob

 

[Lucky Strike]

Some amazing stuff here lately.

I was bored, and went on a little ebay buying spree for cheap and unusual watches. (Pics from ebay.)

HMT Indian army, issued watch, restored dial (this one's arrived, and the luminescence is strong enough to make me worry about radiation):

And another variant:

Soviet Russian Raketa, for weak-sighted, NOS export version, reminds me of Panerai (sorry, any resident Paneristi :

I got this not very useful wrist compass as a bonus along with the Raketa:

Fifties Oris:

 

[Lucky Strike]

A few more:

Ca. 1940 Record, probably a private-purchase military-type watch:

Another two exotics; they seem to be Indian or Pakistani NOS:

I like the arabic day/date, and the unusual cyclops on this one:

 

[JEEP]

Very nice Lucky - very nice indeed :eusa_clap

That Oris is an absolute beauty - and the Indian army watches are really cool.


Regards.

Jakob

 

[Lucky Strike]

Very nice Lucky - very nice indeed :eusa_clap

That Oris is an absolute beauty - and the Indian army watches are really cool.


Regards.

Jakob

Thanks! Here's the first Indian army one on a preppy stripy band, photo taken this morning:

 

[Miss 1929]

They break and break and break

so none of them are running right now! It must be all the banging on the ivories.

Left to right:

Chrome with copper faced 1940s Aristo.

White gold 1920s watch with no name - nice sapphire cabachon on the stem.

White gold and diamonds 1930s Longines - a hell of a nice watch but for some reason, it will not ever keep its winding stem. I have lost a dozen of them and given up. Which is very sad, as it was a gift from hubby the night before we got engaged and has great sentimental value. I would hate to have to change the innards, but it has been fixed so many times and still has the same issue every time.

Rhodium and faux emerald 1920s Bulova - I got it for a song as the people who had it thought its band was broken! But it was just an invisible closure.

Off the band, another rhodium Bulova, probably 1930s.

And a really cool watch band, stretchy and made of pearls and filligree!

Too bad none of them work. Someday when I am rich I will try having them all fixed. again. Another problem is that now my eyesight is going, so I can't read anything so tiny unless I use the lorgnette!

 

[Teekay44]

Hamilton Sutton

This is my grandfathers. The one in my avitar, It is his Hamilton Sutton. Serial numbers dates it to 1937 It has his initials engraved on the side. I LOVE this watch.

Made in my hometown LANCASTER PA!!!

 

[Dinerman]

Inherited from my grandfather.

Beautiful, classy and clean. Nice watches.