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When is a watch vintage?
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Ωemptymywallet
·1980 works for me.
Most of my Vintage are 50s 60s with one or two early 70s
Most of my Moderns are 2006 to now
As many, actually heaps of threads and posts have ended up discovering it is personal and myself being almost 50 would have a different opinion to a 25 year old.
This Subject does come up every 3 or so months 😗
https://omegaforums.net/threads/from-what-year-vintage.27938/#post-311657
https://omegaforums.net/threads/vintage-vs-modern.87407/#post-1130416
I figured it might, sorry for those who have seen this over and over. But I was also curious because it doesn't seem to be established in the forum itself. If so, certain watches will be posted in either page depending on the opinion of the individual.
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TimeODanaos
·I figured it might, sorry for those who have seen this over and over. But I was also curious because it doesn't seem to be established in the forum itself. If so, certain watches will be posted in either page depending on the opinion of the individual.
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Davidt
·For me vintage is 30 years plus and antique is 100 years plus.
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MRC
·Worth remembering also that to be "vintage" a piece needs to be more than just X years old. It also needs to be good. And something that starts life as mediocre doesn't exchange mediocrity for vintage-ness as time passes - it just gets older. Is all that a matter of subjective opinion too? Of course: that's part of the fun too.
Local branch of Veteran Bicycle Club takes the view "Anything old enough no matter how interesting and anything interesting no matter how old". So although I normally take something pretty interesting and also pretty old I've also done the big ride of the year on a one month old bike. The main organiser's partner was also riding one and they were designed & made (OK, assembled for the second) in our city.
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TimeODanaos
·Local branch of Veteran Bicycle Club takes the view "Anything old enough no matter how interesting and anything interesting no matter how old". So although I normally take something pretty interesting and also pretty old I've also done the big ride of the year on a one month old bike. The main organiser's partner was also riding one and they were designed & made (OK, assembled for the second) in our city.
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MRC
·My local bike club some time ago put me in the "not interesting, but pretty old" rider category! 😉
I'm in the always been slow but now old too group. Yeah we have two-speed rides, sometimes three-speed aka Sturmey-Archer.
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abrod520
·I would say something becomes vintage once the standard changes and most models are no longer being produced like their predecessors were - tritium to SuperLuminova, plexiglass to sapphire, aluminum to ceramic etc.
Same as with other things - steel to plastic, hydraulic power steering to electric, manuals to dual-clutches, automatics to CVTs, and so on. Cost-cutting, durability, or safety generally requiring changes
Same as with other things - steel to plastic, hydraulic power steering to electric, manuals to dual-clutches, automatics to CVTs, and so on. Cost-cutting, durability, or safety generally requiring changes
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Eric304
·IMO pre 1997
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ejj
·I’d go with 1979 and earlier. Most of the watches from the 70s have a certain style. 80s tend to look more like the current watches. I’d say anything between 1980 and 2000 or so is Neo-vintage. Watches started growing a lot in the late 90s early 2000s and took on a different look again.
In sum—while age and lume is one thing, I look at the design language/style as equally important.
In sum—while age and lume is one thing, I look at the design language/style as equally important.
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ExpiredWatchdog
·When are people vintage?
They begin to smell "vintage".
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Davidt
·The problem with considering styles and aesthetics is that some change more frequently than others.
Is no Tiffany engagement ring vintage until you go back to transition cut diamonds in the 1930's?
Is no Tiffany engagement ring vintage until you go back to transition cut diamonds in the 1930's?
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mcemeren
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SpeedyPhill
·Vintage is minimum 25 years ( quarter century )... Antique is minimum 100 years ( Century )
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timecube
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alam
·....When is a watch vintage?...
when in the year 2020, a 1976-year model rides on my wrist.. and provides accurate time..
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queriver
·IMO the word vintage is too subjective to be useful for classifying watches. As we see with these posts, everyone has their own frame of reference and it's often proportional to their age. One person sees a 20 year old watch as "vintage" while for another it's still practically contemporary. To reduce confusion about where to post in OF, the Vintage forum could be renamed to, say, "Omega watches over NN years old", or "Pre-19NN Omega watches".
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Professor
·But is there such thing as an inaccurate quartz watch?
Quartz is theoretically orders of magnitude more accurate than a mechanical movement, and I've owned a cheap quartz watch that was accurate to one second per year for over thirty years and still remains as accurate as most good quality mechanicals, but I've also owned brand new recent manufacture quartz watches that were wildly inaccurate.
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AG77
·For me it's a combination of age and certain features. Pre-1980 is safely vintage. However, there are some models from the early 1980s that are clear continuations of 70s models (e.g. acrylic crystal Rolex models) that I also consider vintage. While I realize that 25 years is a nice round number, I'm having trouble feeling that a 1995 tritium Speedmaster is vintage.
