Watches
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My oldest is an Elgin pocketwatch. The movement dates to around 1911. I bought it because it looks a lot like a pocketwatch my grandpa owned and it reminds me of him.
Rolex Oysterquartz Mk 1 from 1978
I have a gucci 3000m I found at a yard sale for $1 that I got working for $25 of replacement parts and labor. It’s from the 80’s, not sure exactly what year. Original band as well
Wow, this looks so clean. Beautiful!
Oldest I can confirm is an Elgin from 1944/1945 based on serial. Sadly doesn't run. I need to service it.
Potentially the oldest is my Jaeger DuoPlan, advertised as a 1931. Jeager wants close to what I paid for the watch to pull the records, so I can't confirm the year. It does run, though. I wear it occasionally.
I have a verge fusee pocket watch from 1818
biological clock
I've got my grandads, his fathers and his grandfathers pocket watch. The oldest one I'd say is around 1840.
I bought this 1933 Omega sector dial from a tiny antique store in Edinburgh. It didn’t run super well and the crystal was coming off, so I took it to a local vintage watch store and got it serviced. Now it’s my favorite watch I own.
A late 1980s Tag Heuer Formula 1. It's a man's watch but watch sizes have changed so much that a lady could wear it now. I had it reconditioned by Tag & a new authentic TH F1 band put on it so I mainly keep it behind glass but that's my oldest watch.
Edit - actually not true my dad left me his 1967 Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch. It's in a drawer I forgot about it.
My daily is a 40 year old Submariner 16800. It was purchased new at an AD in 1983.
Pogue Seiko! Early 70s. Got my eye on a 50s triple date moonphase of some kind.
This is my Vintage Patek Philippe 1950s. I exchanged a Grand Seiko Kanro for this as I'm a woman and it looks too masculine for my liking. I love my experience so far with this little one. It's 35mm lug-to-lug.
I purchased a 45 years old Seiko Type II on Chrono. Beautiful timepiece with japanese/english day date function. Model is from 1978 one of the first quartz watches. I love the history and the design (Looks like a vintage datejust 1603 with a slimmer jubilee bracelet)
1949 Hamilton boulton!
The insipiration for the PRX. Tissot Seastar, from the 70s I believe.
A Bulova my dad got new from his dad as a gift before my dad left to work in Africa in 1957.
No idea about the watch at all, was a garage sale find
The oldest I have? A non-working pocket watch from (I believe) the 1930s. My granddad gave that to me.
The oldest that works is one that I can't put an exact date on is an Avia watch from either the late 1940s or early 1950s. I bought that at an antiques shop.
The oldest one I have that I can date is my granddad's 1968 Le Cheminant wristwatch that I inherited when he died.
A 1943 Rolex Oyster Royal with what I think is a completely unique dial. Purchsed from Durban in South Africa and has a stamped dial from Rolex
1940s Hamilton Yorktown
Just passed on my 1995 TAG Heuer Aquaracer to my oldest son!
1950 Soviet Pobeda red 12. It’s only 30mm but I wear it fairly often.
1985-89 Hamilton EFA. It’s very unique and an absolute beauty. For some reason I cannot add a picture here.
1879 Lancaster pocketwatch, one of the first watches they ever made after opening (serial is ~4000). Lancaster was later renamed Hamilton, the company we all know and love.
1926 Elgin pocket watch. I really wanted an art deco watch because we are entering the 20's again and I thought it would be neat. It runs super fast but still runs well.
That I can put a definite date to? My grandfather’s 1981 Seiko for 20 years at his local fire station.
I have my Great Great Grandfather’s Hamilton pocket watch he uses while working on the railroad.
My grandfathers Waltham pocket watch. My grandmother gave it to him for their wedding so it’s from the 1930’s.
The plan is for me to get proficient at fixing watches and get it running and fixed up
I have a 1969 seiko.
A manually wound Tissot from around 1950’s. Don’t know much about it, but I absolutely love it, and it keeps better time than my SKX007
1944 Waltham A-11. My daily wear (in the office with it now actually)
A 1927 Bulova Lone Eagle. It was an impulse buy. I liked the look and it was cheap enough to take a gamble on (~$100). It's by far my most formal watch. It gets wrist time when the French cuffs get wrist time.
Seiko 7a28-7049 from 1982. Runs like a top.
That I actually use, a 1966 Timex Marlin that's my dress watch. Oldest period is a Howard pocket watch with an engraving inside from 1920 that I inherited from my grandfather.
i have a Fossil quartz diver that was a gift from my parents in the early-90s, while I was in high school, wore it daily well into my 20s & early 30s - don't wear it much these days but keep it for the sentimental value
The clock in the dash of my 1948 MG lol
Not super old but my most prized possession. This is from 1984 or 1985. It was my grandpa's. When I was a baby, I'd play with it on his wrist. He left it to me when he died. I was in high school and had to remove some links. Now I'm 35 and can't find the links I removed, so it's getting a bit tight. It obviously makes me think of him every time I look at it. It's a good reminder to be my best because he always saw me in the best light.
1980 Bulova quartz
Seiko Lord Matic De Luxe from 1976 with the 5626 movement from the King Seiko line of that era.
Great condition, running perfectly.
And the date and day complications are a blast to use with the quick set function available for both.
My grandfather's watch from the Penn Relays in 1940-something
My 1972 Citizen Seven Star. Bought from Japan new, inherited it, and I regularly maintain it and wear it.
Universal Geneve Tri-Compax c. 1946 Runs great and all complications work!
I have my grandpas old Gruen Precision Day Date. Don't know exactly what year it is, but it's marked on the dial R SWISS R, so it's got radium lume, making it probably from the late 50's. Needs some work. It runs, and the day changes, but the date doesn't.
