Have patience. Everyone wants to buy watches like that. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to develop the necessary expertise to know good from bad and to develop a network of contacts who will offer their watches to you. It's the internet, so you are competing with every collector in the world, and most of them are more knowledgeable than you. Let's say there actually were some sort of secret place to get great watches at reasonable prices. Do you really expect experts to give information like that to a complete stranger, on an open searchable forum? At this point, the most likely way for you to get a watch like that is to pay a premium price to buy from a well-established dealer. If you're not willing to pay up, then be patient and put in the time.
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Welcome to the forum @vin0616 - I see you have already gotten a taste of some of the fauna and flora around here.🤨
Vintage watches as mentioned can be a minefield to the uneducated. Someone with an untrained eye can see something spectacular looking only to discover it is a total fabrication- repainted dial, mismatched hands, case polished to death and lacking original finishes....patience and reading are your best resource- look at lots of examples of the references you like and learn their intricacies, what a correct dial looks like, what the chamfers and finishes of the case should look like, what hands are correct to each model.
Chrono24 is just as bad as eBay IMO, there are misrepresented watches there constantly, and some of the dealers who sell there are notorious for it.
Honestly, the best place to buy (as was mentioned within the first couple posts) is the classified’s right here. They are group monitored so if there is an issue or oversight by a seller it get called out quickly- fakes won’t even make it up. The “private watch sales” are from individual collectors and the “Watches for sale” are dealers who advertise their watches here. Even though you don’t have 200 posts yet, you can PM a seller if you see something that catches you eye.
Best of luck on your search.
Edit- Dan beat me to the punch on this as I was typing, sorry for the duplicate info.
We have many new people that pop by, want things, take what they can and then disappear.
Please join us, make some effort, get to know us and to be known.
Then you will appreciate the forum, our library, as you called it, is a wonderful resource filled with lifetimes of work.
Join or leave, it's up to you, but disrespect?, I hope not..
