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!
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
Here is a VINTAGE 1960's watch, sitting on some CLASSIC 1960's magazines, sitting on an ANTIQUE 1850's book. I wonder when the autographs will become more valuable than the watch sitting on them?
Are they for real? Quite amazing!!! And I imagine there will be a “value bump” immediately after the last remaining original Beatle leaves us.
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.
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.
+1⬆︎ 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.
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)