Hi all Hope someone is a Glycine expert here I really like these vintage Glycine Airman, but have understood there are many traps to be stepped in as many are franken. What do you think about this one? Is it all genuine? Can it be fixed without breaking the bank? Known issues are: Rotor is loose Second hand is loose but comes with the watch Seller says it is not working... which is not strange if rotor is not there... but not more specified than that. Crack in crystal Case back seem to have dents Any thoughts?
Look up Nevada watch repair on the net he works on these. The hack wire was missing on mine. Service mine and had the parts to fix the hack wire. Only one I would trust with this won’t be cheap. But these watches have went up in value. Do a search of eBay past sells fixer uppers that don’t run seem to sell for around 400-600 then factor in 350 for a service. The two crowns don’t look right think this is the older one that did not have the hatched crown but it don’t look right they mite of been replaced mite be wrong. PDF info https://andres55.home.xs4all.nl/glycine airman.pdf Nevada watch repair https://nevadawatchrepair.com/ price list for airman repair https://nevadawatchrepair.com/glycine-airman-price-list.html Some more info https://www.timepiecechronicle.com/features/2017/10/18/uqeztr7g87jdmo07cc66aj4gw2bb9g
Here is mine for comparison the hands on that one your thinking of getting the hands look different. There was a site to look at fake one's it don't seem to be working right now. Also look at the bezel notches mine are skinny the one your thinking about look fatter and wrong type of crowns and the date window also looks off I have a funny feeling that one could be fake. I did my home work on mine and found out about Nevada watch repair to fix the hack wire on most the hacking don't work since I knew it could get fixed I got this one off eBay for 600.00 some years ago and put in 300 to service it and fix the hack wire. So do your home work on these what they look like get one that runs has all the out side parts both crowns the correct ones the clip under the locking crown that some times missing and all the lume is there if it don't hack that's fixable with Nevada watch repair there another guy in Europe forget who he is just as good as Nevada watch repair. Search the net a lot of info to learn what real ones look like. Good luck on your hunt.
As mentioned above, the bezel and both crowns are wrong, and honestly I'm suspicious of the dial. It's a parts watch for me.
It also looks like most of the lume has been removed from the dial (could be the pics), but that’s half he charm with these- it would be a hard pass. Enough working models of these are out there so unless this is a couple hundred bucks (sum of the parts like Dan says), no thanks.
Thanks all for your input. You pointed out some of the same worries I had with it as well as well as found quite a few more. I think I will pasd on this one, but will save the info as well as the contact to Ronald Prinz.... might need him in the future ;-) Cheers guys!