I promised you more Gallet vintage watches this year, so here we go. After years of hunting, I found my ultimate non-lumed Gallet Multichron 12 “Snow White.” As a warmup, I do recommend reading my story about the lumed Gallet Snow White, which I published almost four years ago. They have something special in common. […]

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The construction of the Derby Swissonic is different than anything you have seen so far. It reminds you of an old bedside flip clock, doesn’t it? In reality, it is an ingenious plastic speedometer “drum-machine” powered by a 7-jewel transistorized electromagnetic module. From jumping hours to jumping minutes The Derby Swissonic might bring back fond […]

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I was hunting down the Tissot ref. 40528 with a pulsation bezel for a few years. You either can’t find them at all, or you find them with chewed-up dials and broken bezels. I got lucky about two years ago.  I remember it quite well because I won the auction just a few days before […]

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I’m always happy to learn that there are still watches that can surprise and confound me. My recent discovery, the Fortis Easy-Math, belongs to that group. I live in the heart of Europe. The last two weeks were really warm and sunny, finally, and made me and my kids spend the whole weekend outside, biking, […]

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Many collectors don’t look at vintage Citizen watches when searching for their next dress piece. I hope that the Citizen Super Jet Auto Dater can change their minds.  I was not hunting for a specific watch model here. In complete honesty, I was after the movement only. I mean, I didn’t want to buy just […]

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Wait, phones and football still matter today. Well, it’s almost scary how symbolic and practical the Montilier Telefoot watch is today, almost 80 years after it was first introduced in 1946. I am genuinely mind-blown! It was about a year ago when I first heard about the Montilier Telefoot. I was in touch with Sébastien […]

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The very ’70s Alpina President is a great example of a low-budget watch that you can keep talking about for hours. I won’t keep you for hours today, but perhaps you will find this watch as interesting as I do.  I like nice coincidences. You know, those that make you find pleasure in otherwise meaningless […]

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Imagine buying a bunch of old watches because you recognized a hard-to-find grail watch among them. And now imagine that after a year, you revisit this same pile of old watches and realize there is a genuine Rolex bracelet in it too. Last week, I told you a story about how I had landed my […]

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This wild find of a Nicolet no-pusher Landeron 251, one of my grail watches, has everything we collectors dream of. Actually, this time, my desires were even multiplied. Get some popcorn. Today, you will read about a watch that I saw for sale for the last time maybe five years ago. I will remember the […]

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Was the round typeface in the sub-dials of the “2nd Execution” Heuer Autavia 2446M the result of a thoughtful process, a one-off creative anomaly, or a pad-printing-device operator’s neglect? What we know for sure is that we are not looking at some Frankenwatch assembled later from various parts. “Exactly what it should be!” says Jeff […]

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