I must admit I'm all over the board but I keep being drawn to 14 and 18 kt gold watches. I just purchased a very nice 18K watch from Vanallard. I will buy a brand new Speedy professional next but I keep being drawn to Vintage gold dress watches. Who out there collects vintage gold dress watches? Show me your stuff
Oh my Gawd, do I have to move all those pics over from Photobucket to Imgur? How about we start with my AP Ultra-thins and I'll try to get motivated to post the JLCs, IWCs, and the Piaget. Here they are, the two finest ultra-thin calibers ever made.... 1971 reference 5279 caliber 2120: There was a 2005 Watch Time article on 4 super-rare Audemars Piguets and this was one of them. Somehow, this semi-blind squirrel tripped into a white gold version making it even less common. 1969 Classique caliber 2003: The Classique was made for decades in various incarnations and calibers. This caliber is now considered an in-house AP movement because AP got all rights, tooling, and blue prints / plans for it as part of their agreement to sell their 40-ish percent stake in JLC to Richemont.
^Amazing. I am just curious, where would you send that 2003 for servicing should you require one? This applies to all other uncommon calibers, can watchmakers even find the parts for those?
Dress watches? love 'em, and the prices are usually reasonable too! 1955 18K 500cal Dennison cased Omega... exactly the same as the Tresor in the '55 catalogue, this was my grail watch and I still love the look of it. 1928 Hamilton 922, doesn't get any dressier! 1950 283cal 1952 bumper 1938 Waltham
It's not much different from a standard manual wind movement, except the roller jewel placement (I don't think there's a roller table, so the escapement can be thinner than normal), so a good watchmaker can handle a standard service. If this ever needs parts, it's either on me to find a donor movement or send it to AP.
Here is a thread for you if your into dress watches https://omegaforums.net/threads/found-it-fun-without-a-date-or-a-brand.38423/
They don't even need to be in gold. Dress watches are what fit me best and Universal Geneve is my first choice. Here are a couple pictures of some I have had, most I still own. Photo credit @grizzlycanuck (the nice pictures) the wrist is mine.
This one isn't too bad either https://omegaforums.net/threads/two-or-three-hands-collectors-post-them-here.57798/
Here are some of my dress watches: Then there are watches that are "dressy" (are alarm watches dress watches?):
Just a note that it’s not like one of those cruise ships: you are not required to purchase a Speedmaster to use the forum. Did you say gold?
A little something different and German Nice looking movement although I am unsure what it is based on
I have several that I think of as dress watches in SS but only this 267 in gold. Original hands the "wrong" length quite often crop up in Dennison-cased watches.
I'm really into dresswatches, my workplace has a formal dresscode, but about to change it to casual, so I don't really know what will happen now. I might need to sell them now and keep the casual ones.
Seriously cannot get enough of that Universal Caracas @Jonatan. Double signed dial and those lugs. What is the story there?