ABOUT

My fixation with watches began in the mid 1970s when I put my beloved Seiko on top of my mum’s Renault 5 while I played football in the garden.  I was always careful with that watch. I didn’t realise that she had driven off to go shopping. I looked for it for days but never found it.

 

I love watches dating from the 1940s up to the late 1990s (where they are generally classed as ‘neo-vintage’). My choice for watches for sale in the ‘shop’, reflect a kind of time portal to when I think watches, design, and certainly the music really were more interesting. 

 

I try to date each watch and find out what was happening around the world when it was brand new and enjoying its tiny mechanical life on someone's wrist for the first time.

 

So what's so special about vintage watches?  Most of them aren't very accurate; you can't get them wet; they are intrinsically fragile and they've got bumps, scrapes, cracks and often that thing on the dial they call patina. Most need some attention from a watchmaker to keep them on the straight and narrow.

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But hey....'They Just Don't Make Them like that Any More' and that's what makes the search and hunt for them so rewarding. New is great, but there is something unique and appealing to wearing a vintage watch. So I hope you enjoy going down the proverbial rabbit hole and hope you find something you’d like to own or just want to read about.

 

Nick, London, England.