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路路Hoarder Of Speed et aliaDinner at Commander's Palace is a must. Jacket required.
Vintage Watches in New Orleans
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timeismoney
路Dinner at Commander's Palace is a must. Jacket required.
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CajunTiger
路Jacques Imo's Cafe and Bayona are two of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans...also check out A Gallery for Fine Photography in the Quarter...a must visit.
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RawArcher
路Bayona is a classic and R'evolution is also a must. "Death by Gumbo" is a can't-miss at the latter. Google it and thank me later!
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timeismoney
路Thank you all for your suggestions! I am anticipating this trip will be an eating tour 馃榾
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Impondering
路May want to check out the zoo....
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DocHolliday
路There's a shop right after Brennan's as well on Royal in the Quarter.
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smirk1010
路I love this shop. I visit it every time I am in the French Quarter. As a local I can confirm that while there are a few other shops in town, Quarter Past Time has the largest collection by far. I have purchased a few 70s Seamasters from Julio over the years. He currently has a Flightmaster 911 145.026 that I have my eye on. He has a few of his watches posted at www.quarterpasttime.com but no where near as many as he has in his shop.
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
