Arrivals, What Did You Buy Recently?(Watches)

A buffalo strap from Two Stitch Straps arrived today. Holy c#%p it's a massive strap but then the buffalo is a massive animal and this is a massive watch. Love it 👍

For the second time around now I have had to buy similar boxes... A bittersweet experience, as while it is nice to make sure the watches you send abroad will arrive safely, it also means that something in the collection has to go 🙁

Today, this is the lot I'll send off:




One will be going to a new member here and will be his first vintage watch - a pretty good start, if I may say so - and the other will be joining the collection of an established member. Both are watches I have been very happy to own and I'll have to get them out of the door now, before seller's remorse kicks in bad 😜

Oh, and a third watch will be going soon, too. For some reason interest in the Helvetia I've had for sale for some time suddenly spiked after a mid-week bump, forcing me to turn down two offers after having accepted one from a member earlier that day. Like buses...


I could also post the, ahem, replacement for the sold watches here, seeing that I bought it (somewhat unplanned and rashly!) last evening, but I'll save that for the arrival of it. Suffice to say that it is quite different from the two above lovelies and far, far away from my regular field of vintage watch collecting, even though I am very familiar with the brand in question 😉

Also - I still need to make "room" for the new arrival, so if you remember me posting something nice lately (possibly on my Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/troelsoelholm/ I could well be open for offers!

Really, really fantastic watch, but it does need a more refined strap than the one on it now. The level of workmanship on the case and hands mix oddly with a basic strap with rough stitching like that 😀

How difficult was it to source a NOS crystal?

Picked this up Thursday at the San Antonio boutique, as always they did a stellar job!