So, I have often thought about this because there have been so many famous historical periods for horology over the last hundred or more years.

If you could spend a weekend (or long weekend) at any significant point in the history of watchmaking when would it be?

I will go first. For me, since I love the ocean, it would be during the golden age of SCUBA diving. There were many exciting dive watch's back then that we only dream of owning now. You might say buyers back then had no idea how highly valuable some of them would go on to be. Plus, using a dive watch then meant you relied on it more, I would assume. Some time during the early to mid-1960s hade a good variety of dive watches to select from.

 

I think I would like my weekend to be in 1959. It was a big transition year for many watch brands that I collect so there were some interesting combination as certain watch series and some movements were being discontinued while new ones or revamped versions were being introduced.

 

I think for me it would be 1965 or 1966. There were a lot of top notch watches available, just before over production ,resulted in some manufactures cutting corners.

 

See, I'll let you slide on saying 1966 because you probably don't know any better. That's when I was born and I have first dibs on any watch from that year.

The quartz revolution was responsible for the cutting corners thing.

 

The 1880's. I like the old west.

"Watches? We don't need no stinkin' watches!"

 

ooer...

1938,

coming out of the Depression, Art Deco is at its zenith and American watchmaking still mean't something. Things like semi-auto and full-auto watches are now on the market, watch sizes are starting to grow and American watches can still be considered a match for anything swiss made.

or 1960,

Accutron.....

 

The Sith vs. the Jedi. I hate quartz watches.

 

Agreed! You could buy a few and retire after Rolex Revolution.

 

Is that the Urban Sombrero?

 

Wasn't that also about the time, the Royal Australian Navy Certina DS 3's. were available in surplus shops at rather inexpensive prices?

 

Dennis read the start of this paper http://www2.econ.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/global/dp/1114.pdf it makes it clear there were problems in the Swiss watch industry other than quartz.

 

Here's a thread on WUS with some pictures http://forums.watchuseek.com/f7/fin...3-1000m-ran-royal-australian-navy-559873.html

 

Here's another link on the RAN DS3 PH 1000 http://scubawatch.org/DS3.html

 

Thanks Mike.

 

That what I was going to say the mid 1970 all the watch were cheap because of the quartz crash the Dayota noboby wanted and I could had see my band Led Zeppelin.

 

I would like to have worn a speedy on the moon

 

1815 Paris at the back door of Breguet's shop ,banging on it until he opened it .I wonder if the food was better in french jails?