How often do you wear your vintage piece(s)?

maxbrux · Dec 21, 2015

I wear almost only vintage pieces, rotating irregularly: I like more and more keeping the same watch on the wrist for long periods ...

Canuck · Dec 21, 2015

UncleBuck
Seems about 10 years off as I recall from about 10 years ago.....
Seriously, I think this is a good definition but I consider antique as Pre WW1 (100+), Art Deco/vintage from WW1 to WW2, Mid-Century modern from WW2 to 1970's and modern from then on....I would concede and embrace the term of "Retro" from 1970 to 1985.

retro:

Mid- century:

Vintage:

(photo courtesy of Kyle)

Antique:
I wish!
I covet a WW1 or earlier porcelain(no cracks!) and a turn of the century Brandt/Omega, please pm with possibilities!

Not a chance!

Not a chance!

blubarb · Dec 21, 2015

Usually vintages Mon to Thurs which includes the older Speedies usually Tuesday 😀 and GMTs Thurs and Fri and Sub on the weekends.

Waynepjr · Dec 21, 2015

I wear only vintage and daily on rotation. Kind of like Jay Leno and his cars.... Why buy if you are not going to use them????

Kit352 · Dec 21, 2015

Depends on what I'm doing really. Weekends are for vintage watches in my house unless I know I'm going to be working around the house. I will switch them out about every week so every month or 2 they have all been worn for at least a weekend.

BlackTalon · Dec 21, 2015

Neither a new PO or an almost brand new Speedmaster could get me to switch from a Sinn UX. But when the '67 Speedmaster arrived last week it became the new daily watch, unless I have to go out to projects at work..

Illiknight · Dec 21, 2015

I wear my vintage watches almost exclusively rotating regularly on a near daily basis. Even though I work from home these days, I still keep them on my wrist because that's why I collect them! I also mix in a modern Longines Expeditions Polaires Francaises re-issue (so still beckons to the vintage), a mid 90s Glycine Seawalker (travel and beater) and a 1980-ish automatic Seiko (from late grandfather). There's also a late 80s TAG quartz midsize F1 diver and a mid 90s Movado quartz (first dress watch I bought for myself after moving to NYC after college) in the box but they get almost no wrist time these days bc they were daily wearers for years and, well, I'm just not into quartz anymore.

darty · Dec 28, 2016

If I don't wear them for awhile I sell them. I am weeding out my collection now. It's a New Year and I feel it's time to stop hording, I'm going to get down to just 5 or 6 favorites and rotate them daily.

ulackfocus · Dec 28, 2016

darty
If I don't wear them for awhile I sell them. I am weeding out my collection now. It's a New Year and I feel it's time to stop hording, I'm going to get down to just 5 or 6 favorites and rotate them daily.

Necrothreadiac. 😜

corn18 · Dec 28, 2016

Faz · Dec 28, 2016

All the time...My most "modern" watch is from 1993...My elder statesman is 75 years old and it's in a regular rotation.

CajunTiger · Dec 28, 2016

every single day...I only wear vintage.

Kja · Dec 28, 2016

I only have one vintage pie pan from 1956 and I try to wear it everyday.. A couple days a week I don't and won't wear a watch. When at work I put it away untell I'm off, then slip it in before the drive home.

Canuck · Dec 28, 2016

I guess you'd need to define vintage. My newest watch is 27 years old, so I am always wearing a vintage watch, by that definition. But today, I am wearing two watches. Both are over 65 years old. One Omega bumper automatic caliber 355 (date at 6:00) which will be on my wrist until after New Year's Eve. And a (new to me) Certina automatic with calendar. I generally only wear about 10 or 12 of my 60-odd wrist watches. And I have 5 or 6 out of my collection of about 50 pocket watches that I wear, irregularly.

phodinkee · Dec 28, 2016

I tried and failed (again and again!!) to own and wear modern watch

I have tried Tudor Blackbay Black, Black Bay 36, Seamaster 300 Ceramic, Seamaster 300 Ceramic 36, several PAMs

Those modern watches always end up with little to no wrist time...
so all my modern watches already sold
Somehow modern watches can't attach to me at all

If I need waterproof rugged watch,
I have always went back to my G Shock Classic DW5600BB,
or maybe I need a Seiko SKX013...

Back to the thread tittle: I wear vintage everyday 😁

jimmyd13 · Dec 28, 2016

Is it a given that vintage is just 25 years old? If so, I only wear a vintage watch on days with a "Y" in them.

Andy K · Dec 28, 2016

U ulackfocus
Necrothreadiac. 😜

Is this thread considered vintage?

Togri v. 2.0 · Dec 28, 2016

tdn-dk
I more a collector than a user. I only wear a vintage Omega but i have maybe 5 I wear on a regular basis, the rest is in a safe 😀

Which is why you should sell most of them... 😗

ulackfocus · Dec 28, 2016

sgtpry
Somehow modern watches can't attach to me at all

Try buckling the strap closed. Short of that, spirit gum might work also.

chronos · Dec 28, 2016

I always wear vintage watches and I usually rotate them on a weekly basis. The only time I wear a modern and waterproof watch is when I'm off sailing or at the beach.
My goal for 2017 is to get a new Seamaster 300 for these events. As I know people who work at Omega, I might get my first new Omega watch at an affordable price. 👍👍
Here's a pic from Omega's website https://www.omegawatches.com/de/wat...ter-300/master-co-axial-41-mm/23330412101001/

How often do you wear your vintage piece(s)?

maxbrux

Canuck

blubarb

Waynepjr

Kit352

BlackTalon

Illiknight

darty

ulackfocus

corn18

Faz

CajunTiger

Kja

Canuck

phodinkee

jimmyd13

Andy K

Togri v. 2.0

ulackfocus

chronos

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