They made some real cool watches in the 1960's

I think in the 1960's they made some cool watches.

I'd say that it's difficult to imagine a better period for Swiss wristwatches than the mid1950's to the mid-1960's - so many beautiful classic designs with fantastic dials and high quality movements. Truly the Golden Age of watchmaking and the reason that so many of us are drawn to the vintage pieces.

I agree.

I was a kid in the 1960s. Due to unfortunate circumstances, I had trouble telling time. (Still do I have really bad time management.) I also had trouble adding and multiplying numbers. I am simply to abstract. I could however read at an advanced level.

On the other side, all the exitement of computers, calculators the moon program. Mechanical desk calculators were becoming common. I even had a big adding machine with the handle one pulled down. Did not help my math grades, and it was called cheating. I still do have a stylus abucus.

I really did not get into 'watches' until the 1970s. And then it was the adverts for the LED watches with digital readouts. In a way digital readouts were a way I could see the time as numbers (and not abstractions) Even in High school It would take time to translate the clock dial numbers to decimal time. I see time from the hour, or time to the hour. I also can see how the clock dial uses no fractions and quarters and thirds are absolute. 15 minutes is a quarter of an hour. 20 Minutes is 1/3 of an hour.

Ironically I now own some of the clock dials from my high school classrooms. I was facinated with how the clocks worked and the master clock controlled the slave clocks.

Anyway these are all from the late 1950s early 1960s when the classrooms were built. (They were torn down (pulled down for the UK)) in the early 2000s.

At the same time I took the electronics and early computer (typing data entry?) Partly as a way to see if the computer could teach me mathematical route memorization. (it did not,) I did however learn to program computers to do such work for me.

One of the first watches I had was a Timex Sinclare digital watch. These were kits offered in the back of electronics magazines. I think these were called 'the black watch.'

I got one I think for my 16th or 18th birthday. I wanted an IMSI computer. (the teacher was a member of the Homebrew computer club.) I botched the soldering, but a friend's father helped fix it for me. Never really worked as the flex circuits became de laminated. Ironically Apple computer was founded around this same time frame. 1977 was an amazing year. 1978 is when I graduated from high school and everything went to hell.

I no longer have that watch. I traded it for the chair I am sitting on.

So this is really about 1960s watches (which were sold in the 1970s) In the 1980s I became interested in clockwork automata. No one in the late 1980s or early 1990s cared about this stuff. Quartz analog and the Oil Crisis killed everything stone dead.

I know I must have taken some of my mother's watches apart, (and put them back together) as when I looked at them as an adult they were missing mainsprings. My father did not have watches, or if he did they were fakes.

Curiously it is these styles I remain attracted to. Especially the back to the future watch from the 1950s (the one used on the model)

And chronographs. The more complicated the better. And I really dig black dials.

I have however gone meh on calendar windows though.

Prefer steel over gold as well moon over the sun. (except in the afternoon)

Would like to find some more moon phases of this era. I got outbid yesterday on some venus-203 parts.

Probably should post pictures, But USPS is broken, and the mai delivery is not now expected till tomorrow. Which makes me post insane things on watch forums.

I agree. Even though this particular example was produced in the early 70s.

Miles Archimedes 666

I'm not really into vintage watches, yet I seem to have accumulated a few gems from the 60s. This was truly the Golden Age of watchmaking.

c. 1960


c. 196?


Sept. 1967 per Extract


c.1969

What a superb family portrait.

Great photo, and I see you snuck one pilot's watch into that group of divers. 👍

No, mine has no signed crown. But in excellent cosmetic condition and runs well.

Did you ever post pictures of your example?

Yours would be the 3rd or 4th example I’ve ever seen.