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Actually I've been in the market for a wrist watch. I haven't worn one in 15 years and don't know where to look for a nice vintage one. Any suggestions?
Maybe something in white gold.Martinis at 8 said:P.S. I'll upgrade the dress watch someday.
Jaeger-LeCoultreChaperon said:What is the brand of the lovely white gold number?
What Tomasso says. They're priced fairly high. Watches like the LeCoultre are more of a timepiece than a watch. For everyday wear I don't feel bad banging around a Hamilton. They come with a Swiss ETA movement. Thats all ETA does is make movements.Omega , Rolex and some of other big Swiss and German watchmakers use their own.Tomasso said:Jaeger-LeCoultre
John in Covina said:Hamilton and others made a style called the TANK watch and that is a swell classic look.
Those are good watches.Don't let them go cheap.They command a decent price.Naphtali said:Somewhere deep in the CLASSIFIED stacks I have two vintage watches at sale.
I haven't pursued their sale because I've moved from one edge of the country to the other. I'm not positive I can put my hands on them immediately.
One is a Croton mechanical chronograph, a little on the sporty side. The other is a Longines dress watch.
Both have acrylic crystals, and are waterproof, manual wind, Swiss made, circa late 1940s.
Which one is the 2514.50?Is that an Aqua Terra or a planet ocean?Not only a work of art but indistructable.Naphtali said:Cooper:
Thanks for the compliment. I agree the watches are interesting. In -- what?? -- 2002 or 2003 I entered a watch tizzy. I wanted to obtain the most reliable, durable, yet attractive wrist watch available regardless of price. My only restrictions were: it had to be analog (my requirements forced this anyway); it had to have size appropriate for my wrist; and it had to be unobtrusively light.
Everything coalesced to the obscure Omega 2514.50. I bought two of them, a lifetime supply. Wearing the Omega with a size-appropriate deployant strap rather than the clunky bracelet, the watch meets my requirements precisely.
I'm a user rather than a collector. So the vintage watches have gone on the block.