Watches? Dude, you're young and in New Orleans. Go to Bourbon Street, get a good buzz on, and pick up chicks.

 

Check out M. S. Rau on Royal Street. Get in touch with Deborah Choate, they have some magnificent watches both online and in their vaults. Most have interesting provenances too.

 

M.S. Rau is amazing for all kinds of art antiques and collectibles. And, being close to Jackson Square, you can stop at Cafe Du Monde for beignets. Just don't get powdered sugar on the merchandise.

 

Don't pick up chicks in the 700-800 block of Bourbon st.

Don't pay anybody to tell you where you got your shoes. OR anything else.

Don't miss the aquarium or zoo if you like that sort of thing.

 

Oh.

Nevermind!

One of these days the old guys are gonna…… well, you'll find out after you turn 21.

 

That's great idea. When I visited Japan 2 months ago, Ueno district have several interesting pre owned and vintage watch store.

 

Kyle - I will give you some information on vintage watches in New Orleans once I get things organized here in the shop. I just got back last night after spending a week there so I have some first hand experience with watches and other things.

Cheers, Al

 

Okay for watches there are a few places....I'm assuming you will be spending your time in the French Quarter - that is where we stayed and other than a couple of small trips we didn't leave that area too much.

For modern watches, there are a couple of places on Canal street, and the fairly new Riverwalk outlet down by the river complex has one store I think that also has new watches. I was more interested in the Lindt chocolate outlet there though....

For vintage, there are a few antique stores on Royal that have a few watches. M. S. Rau is on Royal and was mentioned above - now if you are there to just browse, then that's fine, but keep in mind this is one big tourist trap so finding a good deal is going to be difficult. M, S. Rau is quite high end, with lots of very expensive antiques (I was drawn to the Lalique glass, but managed to get out without buying any), and they had a very nice string of Ethiopian Opals, a steal at $228k. They had a few PP and VC on display, but they were horribly overpriced.

I ended up giving them some advice on dial refinishing - in other words I told them not to do it when they asked me about it...

All of the shops along Royal are antique shops, so watches are not their focus, and you will only see a few in each shop. Brands vary from cheaper stuff like Gruen, Hamilton, to the stuff at Rau on the higher end.

The only place I saw in 7 days of wandering the French Quarter that really was a watch shop was a place called Quarter Past Time, and they are located at 606 Chartres Street.



I didn't really check prices, just took some crappy iPhone pics (I didn't feel like dragging my DSLR all over with me this trip, so everything I have was shot on the iPhone)...







They had more watches in this shop than all of the others I visited had combined, so it would be worth a visit for sure.

I may write another post on our visit...I noted Kyle said you are going with family so if that includes smaller children, might be a good idea to prepare them...

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Al

 

disimpan

 

Tourist towns are lousy places to buy watches.

JohnCote

 

Hello All,

Aside from Quarter Past Time from Al, are there anymore suggestions? I will be in New Orleans this weekend and would like to do a little browsing! Thanks!

 

Quarter Past Time is the only place I would recommend for vintage...its a tourist town.
There are lots of antiques stores it wouldn't hurt to peruse just in case they don't know any better and have a special piece...but unlikely.

 

Ah, thank you both for the confirmation. Wasn't planning on buying but browsing only, wifey would be happy to hear that, haha...