Barn Find Watch Stories

Growing up I loved watching and reading about barn find cars and motorbikes. All these crazy stories of lost Ferrari race cars or people travelling into the USSR to smuggle out Harleys and Indians left over from WW2.

Thanks to the internet those days are mostly long over, but there is just something exciting about finding a special object that has been hidden away, even if it wasn’t you doing the finding!

So does anyone have a special barn find watch story that they would like to share? Stories like happening upon a Speedmaster on the parcel run to the Smithsonian in the early 70s? Or maybe just an unexpected watch inheritance that comes with a cool story?

Please go ahead and make me jealous!

Thanks and wow! I am definitely jealous about that one!

Some time ago i was at my elderly watchmakers. As i walked in he was rummaging through a box of old parts and as he was doing so i noticed this battered old Seiko World time on a frayed and dirty nato strap. I asked him if i could look at it and he explained he had canabalised the movement for parts. I asked him if i could do a deal with him so that if i got the parts needed together he would get it up and running and i'd pay for the work. So thats what happened, thats how i got this old Seiko.