Hi,
I like a lot Lip watches and in France vintage ones are pretty easy to find.
Concerning Lip, I think you have to distinguish between 3 categories:
- new Lips: not any interest nor value. As Archer guessed, they use at best Myota movements - and most of the time poor chinese ones.
It is really sad but for watch lovers, Lip died in the 70´s. Interesting story though, because it is not only a quartz issue. It is also a political and social one. Lip workers managed to run alone the brand some time and, as some kind of punishment, the French government cancelled its orders and made all it can to kill the brand with the social movement. Well, it succeeded even if different bosses took over the firm.
- old Lips with non Lip movements (Suiss ones for the 'Geneve' series, or French and Deutch ones). Real Lip
watches, but not the most interesting - even the Suiss ones to my opinion.
- old Lip watches with inhouse movements. That is the real stuff.
My favorite movement, in a luxe version (18 ct gold), the R 25:
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