Flea market find- yet another update

Syrte

No more flea markets in our weird semi-lockdown/ non lockdown, but this new strap came in through the mail-
Perfect for Spring but was the tan one better?
Opinions welcome with many thanks and best regards.

LesXL

Nice colour, will match your glass of rosé this week with the spring weather 😀
Have a hard time to guess the material... Is it leather? Looks very shiny

Deafboy

Très bien, selon moi.

Paris est très agréable à ce temps-ci de l'année; on redécouvre le soleil!

rob#1

Nice strap, makes the dial pop blue

bardamu

Mon Dieu, l'Institut du Monde Arabe.
J'y allais souvent pour un thé à la menthe il y a 15 ans quand j'étais à Paris avec ma femme.
Merci pour ces photos, que de bon souvenirs 😀
Très jolie montres.

Syrte

Turns out those were not fixed bars, or non removable spring bars. And so another vintage strap finds a new home— even though I’ll grant you the period is completely off I like the combo 😀

And this little thing appears to be keeping pretty decent time... by 5 or 6pm it was showing the correct time, now it’s off by one minute but I wouldn’t call it a major issue at 10pm. So long as no appointment is missed during the day, it does the job.

Syrte

No more flea markets in our weird semi-lockdown/ non lockdown, but this new strap came in through the mail-
Perfect for Spring but was the tan one better?
Opinions welcome with many thanks and best regards.

Syrte

As for those herringbone pants in the picture above, believe it or not but they’re « urban » style yoga pants. 😀

Syrte

Well, there was another one of those roving antique markets where no interesting watch ever gets found. But I still went to look.
A bit of background is needed about those. One can find nice jewelery, books, old platters and all sorts of funky vintage stuff— some really charming and interesting if not always highly valuable. But there is clearly one rule: even watch sellers, if you see any, will not have truly interesting watches. A fun interesting bauble if you’re lucky— but this is a major metropolis. Really valuable or more interesting stuff will get funneled through the dealer circuit to the top dogs.

One way it seems this happens, is that some people set up “buyer’s” stalls on the market. They have big displays saying they buy antiques, estates, old jewelery and coins and watches. Sometimes they’ll have a glass case and what’s in there will be broken anonymous pocket watches and beaten up gold plated quartz watches on which none of us would even want to spend a dime. Over time I concluded those glass cases were just for show and that those dealers make their real money when they buy something valuable for cheap and move it to mainstreet.

I have come to ignore them— but this time I nonetheless took a glance at one of those cases. And look what I saw in there.
Oh sure it’s not the chronograph I’ve been waiting to find under a rock, but I could not resist the appeal. those pictures were taken after the fact of course,
Some in better lighting.

Syrte

Thanks gentlemen, actually it’s a good question, the Elgin could be a converted pocket watch- as there are signs of soldering on the lugs.

However I thought the dial and hands were very pretty and I kind of banked on the case being gold.
That may be a mistake though, the guy said he could noy open the case but I have to believe he must have tried to figure out if it was gold- and there is a strange stain on the back which I didn’t examine too closely.
I might just give it to my watchmaker....

Thanks @TexOmega and @Dan S, I think I was a bit blinded indeed by the fun of finding them « in the wild » - thankfully it didn’t break the bank.

ConElPueblo

Oof that's nice!