Hi All, after doing a little research for the past couple of weeks, I finally pulled the trigger on my first vintage Speedster as I found a 1968 145.022 transitional piece for a good price here in Japan. Thanks to everyone's excellent information on this site, I was able to educate myself enough to at least know what I was looking for. The bezel and the bracelet are not correct on this so I will have to start the search for those, but I think that's part of the fun anyway. I appreciate anyone's comments. I picked this up for just around $2,900 in Japan.

 

welcome .... lovely timepiece you have there .

 

Hi

Nice Watch....and I would say that purchase price was pretty good

What's the movement like ? Serviced ?

Best - Neil

 

matching patina of the dial and hands look good!

 

Movement seems to be good. It was serviced around July last year, they had photos from after the service, seemed quite clean.

 

Purchased from Jade Road?

 

Jack Road? No, but it was a small shop inside Nakano Broadway. There are several shops in there including Jack Road and Kame Kichi. This was in a small shop without a lot of stock and the guy working there didn't really seem to know that much about watches and didn't really seem to know much about what he had so I could haggle him down.

 

Okay I'll say it then - DIBS!

Nice one indeed. Just the sort of thing I would love to have myself...

 

Congrats on a very nice purchase! An excellent way to start the addiction, good luck

 

Now that does look good. Well done.

 

Congratulations

 

Can I ask where exactly in Japan are these stores located?

 

Congratulations & enjoy it , fantastic purchase

 

If Al wants it, it must be good.

 

They are located in a little shopping center called "Nakano Broadway" near Nakano Station in Tokyo. Here is the website.

http://www.nbw.jp/index_e.html