Vintage Watch Shops in Palm Springs

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Heading to the desert for a few days - any decent vintage watch shops worth visiting?
 
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Never heard of one in Palm Springs.

LA has Jackamond
 
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Some of the antique malls have a fair bit of vintage watches if you look around. Last time I was there the "antique galleries of palm springs" had a counter with a few dozen vintage pieces - omega, croton, Bulova, enicar, etc.
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I found a Speedy -71 at Rocky's pawnshop in Palm Springs. They are hit and miss. Mostly Rolex. I bought a LeCoultre at the goodwill in palm springs for $6. And a vintage Hamilton at a shop downtown but they closed about 5 years ago. There is a furniture consignment store called the Estate Sale that does have a jewelry section with some vintage watches.

Good luck hunting.
 
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Awesome - thanks for the suggestions. Will let you know if I find anything!
 
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Some of the antique malls have a fair bit of vintage watches if you look around. Last time I was there the "antique galleries of palm springs" had a counter with a few dozen vintage pieces - omega, croton, Bulova, enicar, etc.
Went here this past weekend. The watch section of the Antique Galleries runs under the name of Counting Time Watch Purveyors. Nice guy that runs the section, almost made a deal on selling my Wittnauer 241T. Some cool watches but some really cool watch ephemera (stands, cases and even a Rolex neon light). Figured I’d share with the group.


There was also a shop Jewels of the Desert on Palm Canyon Dr in downtown Palm Springs, that had a decent display in the window. I didn’t get a photo of all of them but here were some of them.


And they had a silver case Omega pocket watch complete with a EoA.


Was cool to see some of the references as I hadn’t seen them in person before. I’m not familiar enough with most of the references that I took photos of to comment on the prices but it would seem commonplace that brick and motor prices usually reflect the overhead of having the space to show them.
 
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Looks like a modern display case being empty like that 😗

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Went here this past weekend. The watch section of the Antique Galleries runs under the name of Counting Time Watch Purveyors. Nice guy that runs the section, almost made a deal on selling my Wittnauer 241T. Some cool watches but some really cool watch ephemera (stands, cases and even a Rolex neon light). Figured I’d share with the group.


There was also a shop Jewels of the Desert on Palm Canyon Dr in downtown Palm Springs, that had a decent display in the window. I didn’t get a photo of all of them but here were some of them.


And they had a silver case Omega pocket watch complete with a EoA.


Was cool to see some of the references as I hadn’t seen them in person before. I’m not familiar enough with most of the references that I took photos of to comment on the prices but it would seem commonplace that brick and motor prices usually reflect the overhead of having the space to show them.

Did they still have this?



But also, I was there in Dec and some of the watches there were very bogus. Like, weird redialed watches they were claiming were dirty dozen Omegas. 🙄
 
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Did they still have this?

I did not see that Bulova Wall clock but there was a bunch of goods and not so good goods there so I may have missed it.
But also, I was there in Dec and some of the watches there were very bogus. Like, weird redialed watches they were claiming were dirty dozen Omegas. 🙄
Ha! I was thinking the same thing about some of the watches. No grand claim dirty dozen Omegas but some wonky dials and wacky stories about some of the watches.