Back here for a project and of course, had to see my friends at Private Eyes. I'm not at liberty to post Endo's new stocks as they haven't posted on the site yet. But here are what Taku (tchrono on IG) brought for me to see: "26ZN!" Taku excitedly exclaimed upon seeing me do this: Endo san showed me his safe which has an 80 year old drawer inside: I bought this Longines trench for myself, I mean my wife: Days later, I met with another Japanese collector, who graciously took me to lunch at one of Tokyo's most popular restaurants - https://restaurant-ode.com/en/ He shared with me these beauties:
geeeeez you came across some amazing 40s and 50s vintage pieces! in great condition where did you find them? just one store?
Visited another store earlier - Horlogerie Passion. They have no online presence though. Here were the stuff they had:
Great post and marvelous watches! I wish we‘d have more watch stores like this in Germany where I could just walk in and take a look at beauties like that.
The watches in tchrono‘s collection are just something else. I’m not a big IG user but he’s definitely got the greatest collection I’ve ever seen on there. Just out of interest, does anyone know if the Japanese were big buyers of these watches when they were originally sold, let’s say in the 1940s/50s. I mean, are most of these fantastic collections source locally from first owner families, or have all these been imported into Japan more recently (say post 1960) by Japanese collectors. For example I don’t recall ever seeing an archive extract ever stating delivery to Japan.
Oh my.... wonderful post. Your visit to Japan is off to a fine start. On my second pass looking through all these tasty subjects.
