Vintage Mechanical Alarms

[Tokyo Tokei]

This one crept in to the collection...



Another Citizen 4H Alarm. The exciting addition of a date distinguishing this from its golden sibling. A watch (the gold one, in the original post) that seems to grab more outings than I imagined, and more comments too. These are relatively unusual, quite practical, nicely-sized and reasonably-priced vintage gems in my opinion.

[SimonK]

Here's mine, I guess it qualifies as vintage as I bought it at a market stall in front of Moscow State University in 1993.

It commemorates the 125th anniversary of the birth of Tsar Nicholas II.

[KingKitega]

Here's a JLC automatic with manual winding alarm from the 60s. Belongs to my relative but it's supposedly got a bumper mechanism for the alarm and sized around 37mm. Very comfy and clever watches!

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[sinner77]

Couple of mine. Petrix and Golana

[Matt68]

One for sale here

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/332734939364

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[Tokyo Tokei]

No reason other than I’m wearing it today and took a picture...



This (and its steel sibling earlier in the thread) continues to attract more comments than anything else I own. Somewhat overlooked gems, perhaps.

[kosumi]

Here's a JLC automatic with manual winding alarm from the 60s. Belongs to my relative but it's supposedly got a bumper mechanism for the alarm and sized around 37mm. Very comfy and clever watches!

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That's beautiful. Does the alarm pointer turn with the disk?

[KingKitega]

That's beautiful. Does the alarm pointer turn with the disk?

Yes it does indeed. Pretty clever and petite watch overall.

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[foselo]

Sone very nice vintage alarms here - thank You for sharing
Regards
Terje

[greenandblack]

(BTW is that an MG Midget? I had one of those a long time ago!)

Is this your blog? The midget write up was brilliant!

Love the citizens and JLC. A vintage memovox would be great, though I'm not sure I'd wear it enough to justify the £££.

[Tokyo Tokei]

Is this your blog? The midget write up was brilliant!

Love the citizens and JLC. A vintage memovox would be great, though I'm not sure I'd wear it enough to justify the £££.

Thanks and yes it's my blog and my old 1970 Midget in one of the pictures. It looked quite good, on the surface. All the stories in the blog are true.

The JLCs are properly lovely, but at quite a considerable discount, I really enjoy wearing the Citizens too. Well worth hunting out if you can find one in good condition. Antique Seikos get a lot of attention, but there are Japanese gems elsewhere too.