These are definitely some of my favourites!

 

Yes. I'd pay CHF 380.- or respectively CHF 410.- without hesitation.

 

Advertising omega

 

Very neat way to illustrate a date disk!

 

Found this recently in a drawer. All vintage Rolex ads are cool anyways.

 

Front page Monday July 21st 1969.

 

Great drawing of the General Watch Co (Helvetia) "Floating movement"!

Here is a pic of the movement in one of my watches showing the underside of the spring loaded screws and the notches in the rim for fitting it.



More info (patent drawing etc.) here https://www.helvetiahistory.co.uk/1930s-sports-watches

Here are some of my favourite ads:

This one with the watch



Haven't quite got the match for this one.



New arrival, pre-repair, nearly a match but about 5 years later.


It would be great if I could get a scan of that G & M Lane leaflet to add to the site?

Thanks.

Carl

 

Cool to have a match to a vintage ad

 

They were pretty quick to advertise that!

 

Vintage = plus 20 ~ 25 years... so I'll post the controversial ad showing astronaut M. Gernhardt during STS-69 in September 1995

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wish those were modern day prices!!

 

Some of mine.

 

Close but not quite.

 

Some great artwork!

 

Hanging in my hallway.

 

Not to mention Accurist

 

Featured in Throw-Back-Thursday today!

https://www.fratellowatches.com/tbt-marvin-tyre-watch/