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Way more so than a vintage one now days.
Oh yes they are. The vintage ones command thousands.
Way more so than a vintage one now days.
Perregauxs were high quality watches back then. They are still high quality watches that aren't cheap. The brand is one of those well kept secrets of the watch collector's world.
Yes, since they're not as well known to the general public as some other high quality watches, you can still find a great deal on one on eBay. I got this one about ten years ago at an auction in northern California for twenty-five bucks, and while it's overdue for a cleaning and oiling, it still keeps perfect time.
And while I'm on a roll with wristwatch show & tell, here are a couple of other vintage watches from my collection:
I found the Raketa when we were living in Amsterdam. N.O.S. and it cost me 25 euro. BTW, twenty-five bucks is, by choice as well as necessity, the most I'll pay for a watch. Keeps me from having way too many watches.
The prices must be cheap there. I have to pay $35.
A watch you paid $65 for? Must be a nice watch.Well, when you consider the dollar/euro exchange rate at the time, the Raketa worked out to about 32 bucks, so we're not that far apart.
And as for my 25 buck rule, I have to admit I've broken it a few times but not by much. Except for a watch that I got on eBay a couple of months ago - I went to $65 because it was a watch that I really, really wanted. The only way I could justify it was by making an agreement with myself that I'd sell a watch or two to make back the money. I'll shoot a couple of pix of it after supper and post them forthwith. It's really sweet.
I found the Raketa when we were living in Amsterdam. N.O.S. and it cost me 25 euro. BTW, twenty-five bucks is, by choice as well as necessity, the most I'll pay for a watch. Keeps me from having way too many watches.
Yes, since they're not as well known to the general public as some other high quality watches, you can still find a great deal on one on eBay. I got this one about ten years ago at an auction in northern California for twenty-five bucks, and while it's overdue for a cleaning and oiling, it still keeps perfect time.
And while I'm on a roll with wristwatch show & tell, here are a couple of other vintage watches from my collection:
Not quite as vintage, but this Russian Raketa is still a cool mechanical watch. Raketa is one of the few watch companies that made watches with 24 hour analog dials (confusing as hell to try to read at a glance). The second crown rotates the outer dial with the names of major world cities in Cyrilic. I feel like a vintage spy when I wear this one...
A watch you paid $65 for? Must be a nice watch.
I can usually find a decent amount of 50s wristwatches or $35 each.
Not only did I pay 65 bucks ($67.75 to be exact) for it, it doesn't even run. Fortunately the mainspring and balance staff are just fine - in fact it'll run for a few minutes now and then, so I'm pretty sure all it needs is to be cleaned and oiled. Still, it's another 100 bucks or so.
Way older than 50s, though - prolly 1920s. I've become interested in early wristwatches, particularly the size 0 conversions and transitionals, and the wide variety of factory styles and sizes that immediately followed - a time when watch companies were trying to figure out what people wanted in these new-fangled wristwatches. A lot of the watches from the 20s and 30s were small by today's standards - which is a plus for me because I have fairly thin wrists . F'rinstance, this Elgin is only 30mm in diameter and 35mm to the ends of the lugs.
I had to have this watch because not only is the case really beautiful (and in near-mint condition), I love dials with Arabic numerals that tilt as they go round. They always seem a bit Alice-In-Wonderland to me.
The serial number is 31080894.
I'm definitely going to have it cleaned and oiled, maybe soon, depending on how this week's eBay sales go. I've got a bunch of cigarette cases and holders up now and I think some of them might do well.
Over the past year or so I've scored a couple of nice size 0 wristwatches that have movements that are prolly not worth repairing, but the cases are near-mint. Also scored several size 0 movements that I think only need cleaning. Three of them have fancy dials - two of which I'm going to put in the two wristwatches, have them cleaned, and hopefully turn a profit on them since fancy dial wristwatches seem to be desirable and pricey at the moment. Of course, if I make enough of one of them, I can afford to keep the other...