Vintage Watches

[sr71blackbird]

I just bought this watch, and I have always loved old style watches. I feel that their quality was better "back then". When I was in high school, a friend of mine sold me his fathers Korean war watch for like $25 because he was hard up to buy pot, it was an Omega. I lost track of the watch over the years and I do not know what happened to it, but I know it was probably with quite a lot of money.

Is anyone else into vintage watches?


This watch is an Bulova Accutron. There seems to be a lot of people willing to pay big bucks for this kind of watch.


http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/memlnny/ACU5.jpg

[Whiskeyportal]

I collect watches too. I remember when I was a kid visiting my grandfather i was cleaning his garage when I found my uncles old fort. Along with copious amounts of porn I found a Hawaiian Punch watch with Punchy on it from the early 60's. It had the big fat watch band and everything. I miss that watch.

[dotsncoms]

I have a 1959 21 jewel Timex, it's so beautiful up close but I can't capture the face with my webcam.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u235/ymb1/Picture5.jpg

[cougarjake13]

with cell phones now who wears watches anymore ???

[Sue_Bender]

with cell phones now who wears watches anymore ???

Gentlemen.






And really old people.

[zildjian361]

all my nigga's from Jersy city. the bigger the better.:wink:

[Hottub]

with cell phones now who wears watches anymore ???

A gentleman always wears a fine watch.

Like my Omega Speedmaster (Sea Ctreature case back, not Apollo)

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/omega.jpg

[JPMNICK]

not vintage, but i picked this up recently.

http://images.montblanc.com/products/images/09673_s.png

i want a vintage Omega so bad.

Hottub has some BEAUTIFUL omega watches, I am very jelous

[weekapaugjz]

A gentleman always wears a fine watch.

Damn right. Tag Heuer over here.

[JPMNICK]

Damn right. Tag Heuer over here.

there is a new Tag, the carerra that i think is one of the best looking watches out there right now

[~Katja~]

damn I need sleep, I did not read vintage but vagina watch and had to laugh...


My sisters bf collected all kinds of watches, he has a lot of tag heuers and other swiss brands, I don't think I have worn a watch in 7 years.

[Lawson]

Love watches , old and new. I have a few, but the one I wear almost every day is this:

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/MrLawsonsPics/Rado-Ceramica.jpg

a Rado Ceramica Multi. The band and body are made of ceramic and the face is sapphire (no, not Earl!)... I've been wearing it for 10+ years, occasionally accidentally beating the crap out of it and it still looks brand new... far from the most expensive watchs out there, but one of the most durable. If half the stuff I own held up this well...

[sailor]

did your friend's dad keep his watch up his ass?

http://thestockmasters.com/images/pulp_fiction_koons.jpg

[extracheese]

I was able to score a genuine Omega watch for 25 dollars on 34th street near the subway station. I love it and I call sell it for a few thousand dollars. Im looking at it right now...wait a minute...this says oNEga...shit shit shit!!


Actually I'm proud of my Noblia "Star Class" watch because they don't make them anymore and it cost me 300 bucks. Not everyone is a rich as Hot-trump..i mean hottub and can spend 3-grand on a watch. Damn, now that i made fun of him he wont leave me in his will. :glurps:

[midwestjeff]

I don't have a watch or a cell phone.
I hate having stuff on my wrists or in my pockets.
Maybe I need to buy a purse like Jonyrotn, but I would probably lose mine too.

[KC2OSO]

That watch is very nice SR71.

Bulova was the first watch to use a "sort of" transistor to run the watch i/o a spring wheel - very hard to keep going tho. Wow...Back when American made things.

http://www.njmikec.com/images/accutron.JPG

I like yours though. What model is it?

[Lawson]

I was able to score a genuine Omega watch for 25 dollars on 34th street near the subway station. I love it and I call sell it for a few thousand dollars. Im looking at it right now...wait a minute...this says oNEga...shit shit shit!!

I think I bought a watch from the same guy, he had a whole briefcase full of them. But he wrote his phone number down for me because the watch comes with a 5 year warranty, and I should call him if I ever have a problem. PM me if you want his number.

....hey, wait a second, mine says, ... is Ommega spelled with two 'm's?

[jonyrotn]

I don't have a watch or a cell phone.
I hate having stuff on my wrists or in my pockets.
Maybe I need to buy a purse like Jonyrotn, but I would probably lose mine too.
Et tu Brute!?

Just for the record I only had a purse that night because my cocktail dress had no pockets for my lipstick and coke spoon..

[ahhdurr]

did your friend's dad keep his watch up his ass?

http://thestockmasters.com/images/pulp_fiction_koons.jpg

The man kept slopes from denying him his birthright... he sells it for pot.

Then again, when the old man is frequently up at 3am with a loaded sidearm b/c he thinks the neighbors are about to overrun Inchon, sometimes you need a little bud.

[Furtherman]

I have a pocket watch that I like to wear at formal occasions.

However, I can't resit yelling "ALL ABOARD!" whenever I take it out.

I don't get invited to many formal occasions.

[KC2OSO]

Last Friday morning, getting the baby out of the car, I get a call , talk for three seconds and put the phone on the roof of the car.

Nice move, deek but I get Mets tickets out of the deal so it's ok. Phone stays on the roof of the car all day.

Fridee night we drive off someplace and about 1/5 into the trip we hear a sound on the roof of the car and note it. We move on to destination. Treo hits the weeds at 40 mph. I'm a retard.

Last Saturday morning, realize my phone is missing, recount the trip, where (possibly/exactly) the roof sound was heard and retreat to that spot. Pammy and I look around in the weeds for a while and she finds the corpse of my Treo 750 phone/timepiece. No battery, cover, or stylus.

I know by this days standards this phone is a piece of shit but I want it back.

Saturday goes by and we wind up at the Verizon store in Bridgewater, NJ. Enter my name, get in line, and saunter up to the service counter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm pleasantly greeted by a nice service person who asks what my problem is.
I show him my phone, explain my situation, and he says he'll be right back.
He goes to the junk drawer.
10 minutes later, he returns with the battery, battery cover, and stylus.
I ask, how much will this be?
He says, see ya. Have a good evening.
I slide him a $20.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Good things happen. Thank you Verizon guy.

[Freakshow]

http://www.swatchandbeyond.com/products_pictures/wbs%20collector%20guide.JPG

[Thebazile78]

I dated a guy in college who was into vintage watches. (He's also into guns & ammo, which should give you a little insight into his interests and personality.)

He had several Movados, Rolex, Omega, Bulova ... etc.

Once, he "took (a watch) off a jeweler's hands" (so he said) as a present for me. It was a manual-wind, princess-style watch with an elasticized gold band and crystal (diamond?) chips; I've forgotten the maker as I relieved myself of the thing after we broke up. It was pretty, but I could never remember to wind it ... also, I was wearing it once and bashed my wrist against a wall or something and cracked the crystal. (Sucky!)

He gave me a mostly-fugazzi Cartier watch one summer (which I tried to sell on eBay after we broke up, but it no longer functioned) which matched one he picked up for himself. As well as spent all his lifeguarding money on a vintage Omega.

It was crazy the obsession he had with those things. I just didn't care.

[high fly]

I prefer the old watches, too.
I still have one my father gave me back about 1973 that still runs. Sorry I don't have it here, or I'd give the brand and all.
I used to have an old Citizens watch with 25 jewels, I never saw any with that many, I think most of them had 17, if I remember correctly.
I wish I still had it and don't know what happened to it...