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  1. GrapeFruit Dec 31, 2018

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    How do we define what is vintage?
    Is it depending on year of manufactoring, or is it depending of what reference or what?
    If it is by year of production, does that mean that we can welcome quite a few to the vintage family tomorrow? :)
    Sorry if this has been asked before and wish you all a Happy New Year!
     
  2. dwankmuller Dec 31, 2018

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  3. GrapeFruit Dec 31, 2018

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    Thanks for a speedy reply! :)
     
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  4. eugeneandresson 'I used a hammer, a chisel, and my fingers' Dec 31, 2018

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    No official definition, but I believe most folk here define vintage as aged between 30~80/90/100 years, and antique older than that. Young ‘89 watches become vintage soon. Happy new year all :thumbsup:
     
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  5. nonuffinkbloke #1 Nigel Mansell Fan Dec 31, 2018

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    Here is a VINTAGE 1960's watch, sitting on some CLASSIC 1960's magazines, sitting on an ANTIQUE 1850's book.

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    I wonder when the autographs will become more valuable than the watch sitting on them?
     
  6. shaun hk Fairy nuffer Dec 31, 2018

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    Are they for real? Quite amazing!!! And I imagine there will be a “value bump” immediately after the last remaining original Beatle leaves us.
     
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  7. blufinz52 Hears dead people, not watch rotors. Dec 31, 2018

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    Dibs on the autographed photo :thumbsup:
     
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  8. BenBagbag Dec 31, 2018

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    Personally, I call anything with tritium vintage. So ~1995. I've seen that elsewhere too...
     
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  9. airansun In the shuffling madness Dec 31, 2018

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    Oh, please.

    I figure around 1970 is the demarcation.

    We need a word for the period from 1970 to the end of tritium, like classic.
     
  10. ahsposo Most fun screen name at ΩF Dec 31, 2018

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    Oh, please.

    Classic
    is so non-descriptive. How about Post-Quartz?
     
  11. airansun In the shuffling madness Dec 31, 2018

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    I think that’s the right demarcation line, but the name still eludes us.

    Maybe, Electronic Era?
     
  12. queriver Dec 31, 2018

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    Agree, but let's make the demarcation date specific: July 20, 1969 should work. ;)
     
  13. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Dec 31, 2018

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    1980 for me.

    Vintage < 1980 > Funkey, Quartz then modern
     
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  14. watchknut New watch + Instagram + wife = dumbass Dec 31, 2018

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    1980 is a pretty good date...around then Rolex went to sapphire crystals...to me a vintage watch has to have plexi and trit/radium.
     
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  15. ATWG Dec 31, 2018

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    With regard to Rolex, I would just add with every new sapphire model introduction, the earlier sapphire models or so called 'transitional' models such as the 16760, 16700 or even tritium 16710s are going to be designated as vintage soon.
     
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  16. VintageWatchIta Jan 1, 2019

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    For me, a vintage is up to tritium...middle/late '90.
    1980 watches are 100% vintage in my mind!
     
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  17. nonuffinkbloke #1 Nigel Mansell Fan Jan 1, 2019

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    Yes @shaun hk and @blufinz52 , but not so amazing really. A set of Victorian books, Beatles memorabilia and 1965 Omega Speedmaster all came to me from my Father.

    I've had the 3 Beatles books (one with the centre fold photograph autographed) since the 1970's. With us living in London and my Dad involved in UK, 'Film Location transport' work in the 1960's it's no suprise that he came across this kind of stuff. Also in the early 1960's the Beatles were much more available than when they got really big, so fans could get all 4 autographs by being in the right place at the right time. It aint happening now though.
    (I've moved the music related content of this post to https://omegaforums.net/threads/the-musicians-among-us.69892/page-5#post-1124457)
     
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  18. Mad Dog rockpaperscissorschampion Jan 1, 2019

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  19. nonuffinkbloke #1 Nigel Mansell Fan Jan 1, 2019

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  20. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Jan 1, 2019

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    You and the jacket my friend, ask any of the kids at the skate park!
     
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