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

[Beer Baron]

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?

 

[skbellis]

New "Vintage Watch"

I do not own this watch yet, but I really like the look of it. Very WWI trench looking:

http://acornonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_13206_A_name_E_Pocket+Wrist+Watch

And for under $100, not too shabby.

---Scott

 

[reetpleat]

Check ebay or a local specialty antique shop for a nice vintage good condition or refurbished one. it ill always hold value and look great, and a classic watch is always acceptable in business settings if it is a nice enough forties or so one, or if it is a sixties rolex or something like that.

You don't look like you have an old watch, you look like a classic guy.

 

[cooper]

Hamilton makes some fine watches. They have a vintage line also reasonably priced.http://www.hamiltonwatch.com/index_flash.html
I have a Hamilton "Daredevil" styled after the movie with Ben Affleck.

http://shop.joseph-watches.com/joseph/en/FMPro?-db=gaj.fp5&-format=index.html&-view
http://www.yorktime.com/
http://www.girards.com/
http://www.finertimes.com/asp/watches/query.asp?mode=toplevel&Title=Timepieces&TypeCode=0

That should keep you busy for a while.
The top on, Josephs has the best, but you'll pay also.I have a few more links at home I'll send you that have reasonably priced watches.

I recommend buying a Hamilton.

Retro style and quality and it's new. I have a 70's Omega and the Day stopped working on it. You really have to be careful buying older watches.
http://www.wristwatch.com/category.aspx,,categoryID,,14914

 

[poetman]

Vintage Watch

I am wondering if you all could reccommend, preferably with photos, types of watches that are dressy enough to wear with a suit or tux that have a metal band. I get terrible irritation with a leather strap, but I love the classic look. Any advice on what to do?

Thanks!

 

[Martinis at 8]

For suits and/or tux I currently wear a Seiko with black skin/leather strap. The Seiko is very thin, no date, quartz, with a gold colored face. Price about $127. Slides easily under French cuffs.

For everday wear, work, play, sweat, sports, etc. I wear a Rolex Submariner Date in stainless steel. Price including tax about $5,600.

Cheers,

M8

P.S. I'll upgrade the dress watch someday.

 

[cooper]

P.S. I'll upgrade the dress watch someday.

Maybe something in white gold.

 

[Chaperon]

Thank you! Thank you!

Great ! Lots of great watches to look at! I'm strangely drawn to a somewhat plain semi-vintage Rolex Oyster (note my glazed eyes) which fortunately is not too expensive (considering).

I also really like the Hamiltons !

One on each wrist! That's the answer.....

 

[Chaperon]

Cooper - What is the brand of the lovely white gold number you posted? I can't quite make it out.

Sheer Elegance, with a leather strap... very nice.

 

[Tomasso]

What is the brand of the lovely white gold number?

Jaeger-LeCoultre

 

[John in Covina]

Watch the watch!

Hamilton and others made a style called the TANK watch and that is a swell classic look.

 

[cooper]

Jaeger-LeCoultre

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.
This guy is top notch on vintage wrist wear...http://shop.joseph-watches.com/joseph/en/FMPro?-db=gaj.fp5&-format=index.html&-view

Sorry, can't post pics from this site. Hey Admin..Can you allow pics from this site?

 

[Wolfmanjack]

Hamilton and others made a style called the TANK watch and that is a swell classic look.

Louis Cartier introduced the tank watch in 1917. It was popular throughout the '30s and '40s. I have one and I love it for dress wear.

Although mine is an inexpensive quartz one; not a $5,000 Cartier model. You can find find clones of the original Cartier tank watch in a wide variety of prices, depending on the quality you are looking for.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Signals has some nice watches

There are a few inexpensive reproduction watches sold on Signals.com. I tried to get a link to post a couple of photos here directly but they've blocked right-clicking. Go to this page to see them. I like several. My concern is with band sizes--I seem to have a large wrist size so I generally prefer to try a watch on before I buy it.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[cooper]

Vintage watch ads

Just thought people would enjoy these ads from another forum I frequent on occasion...http://www.timezone.com/library/extras/extras631735054166406250

 

[Naphtali]

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.

 

[cooper]

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.

Those are good watches.Don't let them go cheap.They command a decent price.

 

[vintage68]

I suggest Hamilton, an American classic. Check out their Khaki line of watches. You can find quite a bit on eBay.

 

[Naphtali]

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.

 

[cooper]

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.

Which one is the 2514.50?Is that an Aqua Terra or a planet ocean?Not only a work of art but indistructable.