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·- do you get them all serviced?
Let me explain:
I’ve been collecting for a few years now, mainly focusing on vintage dress watches and skin divers. They are not popular brands, just your typical 60’s - 70’s brands that got lost during the Quartz craze. In other words, they are watches of decent quality, but nothing rare.
You can sometimes find them at good prices at thrift/garage sales and popular online auction websites.
If you’re lucky, the watches are running and keep decent time - good enough to wind, set, and wear every once in a while. However, sometimes there are watches that run, but keep awful time (I.e off by several minutes a day).
Let’s face it, servicing movements are pricey; even a vintage watch you buy for a few bucks ends up being over a hundred dollars when you include the service cost.
My question comes here: do you service all the vintage watches you buy? Or perhaps only the ones you like most/see yourself wearing the most?
If so, then what about the vintage watches that you bought, do not keep great time, but are low in the priority of getting serviced? Do you just hang on to them? Wear them as-is knowing the time keeping is not good?
Would like to hear your thoughts!
My recent skin diver pickup:
Let me explain:
I’ve been collecting for a few years now, mainly focusing on vintage dress watches and skin divers. They are not popular brands, just your typical 60’s - 70’s brands that got lost during the Quartz craze. In other words, they are watches of decent quality, but nothing rare.
You can sometimes find them at good prices at thrift/garage sales and popular online auction websites.
If you’re lucky, the watches are running and keep decent time - good enough to wind, set, and wear every once in a while. However, sometimes there are watches that run, but keep awful time (I.e off by several minutes a day).
Let’s face it, servicing movements are pricey; even a vintage watch you buy for a few bucks ends up being over a hundred dollars when you include the service cost.
My question comes here: do you service all the vintage watches you buy? Or perhaps only the ones you like most/see yourself wearing the most?
If so, then what about the vintage watches that you bought, do not keep great time, but are low in the priority of getting serviced? Do you just hang on to them? Wear them as-is knowing the time keeping is not good?
Would like to hear your thoughts!
My recent skin diver pickup: