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Vintage Watches

1 by HuckleberryFun
Who here likes vintage wristwatches? I have three that I rotate wearing: A 1950s Wittnauer Venus 188 chronograph, a circa 1962 Bulova Jet Clipper, and a 1950s Omega. (Can't find the Omega so I'll post a pic of it when I find it along with my missing car keys). These watches are kind of pricey now, but all were bought dirt cheap years ago when everybody was still all about watches with batteries. When it comes to vintage stuff (and you're on a budget like me) time (and a good eye) is your friend.
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Re: Vintage Watches

3 by HuckleberryFun
senorgrand wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:20 am That bolivia is a classic.

I like smart watches. if you drink enough beers, they think you've run a marathon. just don't drink with your right hand...
When I was in high school Casio watches with built in calculators were considered "cool." On the other hand, Parachute Pants were also a thing, so I question the wisdom of 80s style and culture. Even then I was already profoundly uncool, but at least the teacher never made me take off my watch and deposit it in a box for a math test.

I don't trust any technology that is smarter than me. That eliminates most tech. ;-)
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Re: Vintage Watches

5 by highdesert
I have my grandfather's Hamilton circa 1938 solid gold. And an Elgin circa 1920s that my mother wore when she was in school, it's solid silver. I don't even wear a watch anymore, I have modern ones, but like the kids I just check my smartphone for the time. It used to be everyone in patient care jobs wore one for taking a pulse, but oximeters record pulse plus blood oxygen levels.
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Re: Vintage Watches

6 by Mason
I wear cheap digital watches until I have destroyed them. Rinse, repeat. I have found that riding bicycles destroys analogue watches. The constant micro vibrations ruin their movement.
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-John Cleese

Re: Vintage Watches

8 by RotaryMags
I have a number of vintage Seikos I've accumulated over the years.
Last spring I lost my favorite, my "Baby Arnie".
I had just decided to start using again and had I had just installed a new band/battery.
Long story short, I lost it on a work trip a week after I applied for a new job.

I got the job.

Sometimes The Universe demands a sacrifice...
"I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality" - George Washington

Re: Vintage Watches

11 by YankeeTarheel
The aircraft sextants have a fitting for the stop watch that it to be stopped while taking the sextant's reading at the exact second, and were designed to take the Elgins. I don't know if there were Waltham stop watches that had the same specifications. I don't remember exactly but I think every second of time represents a distance of 1/2 nautical mile.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

Re: Vintage Watches

13 by Stiff
I have interest in non-luxury mechanical watches. Vintage is cool too, but I’m scared of getting scammed on eBay. There are many people selling franken watches that look authentic on the outside but built from leftover parts.

Two watches that I have are a Victorinox and a Glycine.
Glad that federal government is boring again.

Re: Vintage Watches

15 by wings
senorgrand wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:34 am With that rule, the Flintstones wouldn't have had any appliances.
:rofl:

Watches I would like to own:
The Omega Speedmaster Professional. No, not just any 'moonwatch,' one that actually went to the moon.
One of the custom watches made for the Mars rover program https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/spotlight/spi ... 40108.html
Really, any old Soviet windup.

I have better things to do with my money. Shooting, for one. Do you know how hard it was to keep any old Soviet windup running back in the day?

Re: Vintage Watches

16 by YankeeTarheel
I have a (supposed) Soviet wind-up pocket watch I bought on a cruise that stopped for 2 days in St Petersburg back in 2003. At least it says "CCCP" on it. Also have a post-Soviet "Red October" submarine clock that looks like the one in the movie, where you open the face and move the hands counter-clockwise to set it. I think I paid $50 or $60 for it in the mid-to-late 90's. These days, crooks on the Internet sell them as a genuine, Soviet-era submarine clock for 3x to 5x what I paid. If they say "Red October" (in Russian Cyrillic) with a drawing of a sub, they are absolutely post-Soviet made as souvenirs.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

Re: Vintage Watches

17 by RotaryMags
I have a Soviet -Era Vostok Komandirskie tanker watch. Found it in an old Saab I was parting out back in the 90's.
I kept it because I don't throw anything away, now I find folks actually collect this stuff! ; )
"I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality" - George Washington

Re: Vintage Watches

19 by sig230
wings wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:18 pm Hmm. Was the Saab red, per chance? Not mine. But I knew someone who owned both.
I imagine quite a few of us owned SAABs. My first was a two stroke free wheeler.
To be vintage it must be older than me!
The next gun I buy will be the next to last gun I ever buy. PROMISE!
jim

Re: Vintage Watches

20 by RotaryMags
Sorry, I think it was blue. Didn't part out many red ones.

I'd love a bullnose 96. Especially a MonteCarlo or GT850, but I'm really a 99 guy.
Currently race a 78 99, need to sell my 95 9000...

"I'm a scientist with a technical job, you can tell I drive a Turbo SAAB"...Bill Morrisey, "Car&Driver"
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Re: Vintage Watches

24 by wings
lurker wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:09 pm ~25 yr old timex expedition, date not set, plastic crystal scratched up, it's on its' third or fourth band. takes a lickin', keeps on keepin' on.
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They're good watches. The bands don't last, but they're easy enough to swap out. Getting harder to get batteries swapped out, but easier than finding someone who can work on Soviet clockwork.

Re: Vintage Watches

25 by Tedzilla
I don't really need a watch... clocks are everywhere. It's just a habit.
Watersports are the only real reason to wear the steel one occasionally.
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