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

GJH

New in Town
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31
Location
New York
Here you go David...
This is one in White Gold Filled, with plain bezel. The Guardsman is a big favorite of Illinois collectors.

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viclip

Practically Family
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571
Location
Canada
Very niuce busmatt.

Is that a private label vintage pocket watch?

If so I'd be interested to know whether you've identified the manufacturer, with details of course!
 

viclip

Practically Family
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571
Location
Canada
My Great Grandfather's watch. Made in 1891. Keeps time as well or better than my Rolex which is @ +1.5 sec.



Nothing surprising about a railroad standard Waltham of grade "Vanguard" keeping excellent time!

Those 23 jewel 18s Model 1892 pocket watches were & continue to be world-class timekeepers. It looks like the watch has diamond balance staff cap jewels.

I'll bet that your great-grandfather & other ancestors kept it well maintained. These things will last for hundreds of years if regularly cleaned & oiled ... wear it proudly during your custodianship.
 

William G.

One of the Regulars
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158
This is the only vintage piece in my rotation, I usually wear it with suits. I think it's from the late '70s, I found it in a pawn shop about ten years ago and the guy working the counter sold it to me for $10 under the agreement that I wouldn't bring it back if it didn't run or wouldn't keep time (it was marked $65). I paid $5 for a jeweler to put a battery in and it's kept perfect time ever since. I think I got a bargain.

I've got a mid-2000s rectangular Buluva that is 30mm wide, and this Seiko is noticably smaller, but I'm not sure exactly how wide it is (26mm, maybe).
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Someday I want a mid-60s Omega Seamaster, but I've got nowhere around here that I would remotely trust to service it.

If anybody is interested, I have my whole watch rotation in an Imugr album here: https://imgur.com/a/ItRKqtH
 

Seb Lucas

I'll Lock Up
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7,562
Location
Australia
This is the only vintage piece in my rotation, I usually wear it with suits. I think it's from the late '70s, I found it in a pawn shop about ten years ago and the guy working the counter sold it to me for $10 under the agreement that I wouldn't bring it back if it didn't run or wouldn't keep time (it was marked $65). I paid $5 for a jeweler to put a battery in and it's kept perfect time ever since. I think I got a bargain.

I've got a mid-2000s rectangular Buluva that is 30mm wide, and this Seiko is noticably smaller, but I'm not sure exactly how wide it is (26mm, maybe).
P7icfhm.jpg

Pretty sure that Seiko is from the late 1980's or early 1990's. I had one but I can't remember when I got it. 93 I think.
 

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