Newish member from Helsinki

Hello,



Newish member from Finland here introducing himself. I have been lurking on this great forum quite actively for a number of years. I could be called a fairly active collector, since I collect antique maps,books, Finnish knives - and watches.

Omegas have traditionally been a big thing and a highly respected watch brand in Finland. Due to this me and my sisters bought an Omega for my fathers 50th birthday in the late 80’s. Mechanical watches were not a la mode at that time, so we spent for us at the time a fair amount of money on a gold-plated Omega de Ville quartz watch, which I have inherited, maintained and will keep.

My own collection started with a birth-year (1965) gold-plated Seamaster 600 about 20 years ago. Since then I have accumulated a fair size watch collection, maybe focusing a bit too much on quantity. After the first Omega there was a short Seiko period. Since then I have bought a number of Girard-Perregaux, Universal Geneve, Aquastar watches and a couple of Zeniths and Tissots.

My late father owned an old Certina DS. That is probably the main reason I became interested in vintage Certinas. I would say that today I am mostly interested in Omegas and Certinas.

This forum has been and is a great source of information on vintage watches and also great entertainment. Thank you for maintaining but also developing it constinously!

Attached are most of my vintage Omegas, a couple of Certinas and a Tissot Antimagnetique


Greetings from a snow-stormy Helsinki,



Anp200411

Greetings, that’s a nice story about inheriting your father’s gold-plated Quartz De Ville which you had gifted him. It resonates with me as I have had the same experience. Nice Speedy Mark II by the way!

Thanks,for the nice welcomes.

I’ll try to post some pictures in different threads later. Yes @Vitezi, Tissot is double signed (if having Fab Suisse on the dial means that - picture attached).