Post your BEST vintage find!

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I think at the moment this is my best vintage find.


I mean they aren't always that appealing nowadays (to me) 🥰
Awesome!!
 
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Another of my best vintage finds...1967 Breitling Navitimer 806...With one of the best patina'd dials I've ever seen on an 806...
Bought for £94.90p back in 1997...it had a cracked crystal, the movement wasn't running and the strap was decaying...Now reluctantly sold after 16 years of happy ownership (was one of the most accurate mechanical watches I've ever owned)...
 
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This IWC ref 521, unpolished and unworn with original tag. Problem is I don't want to wear it because it's so mint! ::facepalm1::

 
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About half the price of what a very good lunch, in London cost…twenty years ago




Compared to about ten times the cost of a very good lunch, in London…last year

 
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barn fing on a 1039 bracelet. 900 euros.
I need to get out into the country sometime, find myself some barns ::psy::
 
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Some of my favorites:

Hooded Black dial Seamaster:

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Box and Paper Constellation 2887-2 w/ connections to the RCAF

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And my first original Omega:

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Prices were pretty good for all of them too!

Edit: Oh, and this one too.

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Is that black dial a meteorite dial? Sick.
 
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Owned it for many many years before I "found it" never appreciated what I had - youth wasted on the young?



And here is mine, on an alligator strap.
 
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My Speedmaster has rapidly become my best find, since in the year and a half I've had it it has appreciated significantly over what I paid ($2075+ $800 service):

 
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Frey Perpetual for less then $50 including a new setting lever screw out of a donor hand wound movement. It is one of the first automatic movements made in the early thirties. As a bonus the case is made of 750 silver. I have only seen them in gold plated cases in the past.