Lets see your Watches
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StevenH72 said:
Googled it, or try chrono24.com List prices on most watches in the UK are negotiable, just not Rolex from Rolex agents but others.
The US listings is already mentioned on this thread already and German dealers are also good
Another old (and quite rare) Girard Perregaux with day of the week and month in windows at the top and date around the outside of the dial indicated by a 3rd hand.
The only reason that vintage watches aren't more popular today is the difference in size - the trend has been to larger and larger watches, culminating in the mine-is-bigger-than-yours attitude of makes like Panerai. Most 50s - 60s watches were around 34 mm across (not including crown). Modern watches, especially of the Panerai style, can be 44-45 mm and you can get over 50 mm on the ones that look like pocket computers strapped to your wrist. Not a fan. I like around 42 mm or so. In the watch collecting world, we have a saying - 'The bigger the watch, the smaller the......' And there seems to be something to it as the guys with wrist weights for watches do seem to be driving Vipers, Corvettes, etc. as if they are compensating for something. Not BMWs, of course!
Another of my vintage watches that I use - Omega 'Piepan' Constellation with 'beads of rice' original band
The only reason that vintage watches aren't more popular today is the difference in size - the trend has been to larger and larger watches, culminating in the mine-is-bigger-than-yours attitude of makes like Panerai. Most 50s - 60s watches were around 34 mm across (not including crown). Modern watches, especially of the Panerai style, can be 44-45 mm and you can get over 50 mm on the ones that look like pocket computers strapped to your wrist. Not a fan. I like around 42 mm or so. In the watch collecting world, we have a saying - 'The bigger the watch, the smaller the......' And there seems to be something to it as the guys with wrist weights for watches do seem to be driving Vipers, Corvettes, etc. as if they are compensating for something. Not BMWs, of course!
Another of my vintage watches that I use - Omega 'Piepan' Constellation with 'beads of rice' original band
I know where you are coming from wspohn, bought this for the wife last summer, it's her birth year 56 but back then it was a gents size 33mm. It had been in a collection and hardly used mint but great patina on the dial, which is rare honeycomb and also alternate roulette date wheel
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Hilly30si said:
Nice one