Reply With QuoteCertainly both rare and these days very valuable. Get yourself over to MWR forum, they have a sub forum dedicated to vintage Smiths and some very knowledgeable folk (RevO especially).
Hi i am new to this site and would like some information on a recent watch i have purchased...The watch is a Smiths Astral Cheltenham Divers Watch circa 1968.....The watch has a black dial with the crown logo,under the logo Astral,also has date....It has bold luminous no's 6 & 12 the others being luminous dots....The hands are large arrows also luminous....On the rear all stainless steel antimagnetic...100% waterproof tested to 20 atmospheres....Can anyone tell me anymore about this watch,age,how rare and collectable,value etc
Thanks Tony Botcherby
Certainly both rare and these days very valuable. Get yourself over to MWR forum, they have a sub forum dedicated to vintage Smiths and some very knowledgeable folk (RevO especially).
I can't help really but I'd very much like to see a couple of pictures if possible.
Pictures would be very useful.
Can I email or down load photos
If you have them on any kind of picture hosting site then just post a link here and one of us can make sure they get displayed.Originally Posted by Tony Botcherby
If they are only on your computer hard drive and you don't fancy trying to load them onto e.g. Imgur or Flickr, and if you aren't using Tapatalk, then PM me and I'll let you have my email so we can sort out posting them up.
My email address is Tony.botcherby@btinternet.com
Regards Tony
Photo added on site
Tony
The simplest route to load images is by postimage.org . You simply load up the image from your phone then take the copy hotline for forum and then paste it in your post.
Tony started a new thread here and I have added the pictures to that one for him:
http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.ph...TCH-CIRCA-1968
Just to add I wouldn't have thought immensely valuable but quite rare and probably a lovely piece. Never mix pleasure of a beautiful watch with concerns over how valuable it is in imho.
As you may guess the scale of vintage diver prices is roughly
Obscure branded / rebranded
Watches such as the Zodiac Seawolf / Smiths etc.
Longine / Record / Wittnauer
Zenith / Eterna's
Omega's / IWC's
Rolex Subs
Rare JLC's
Blancpains
Military Omega
Rolex Comex
Military Rolex
This is a very rough guide with my lovely Seawolf a snip at just £500 and a Military Rolex (Sob) I dont own heading towards £100k?!?
Others may totally disagree or have fun rearranging . I left out military issued Eternas that also go for heavy lumps.
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