Reply With QuoteIt might be this Rotary, no idea on age, but it is old!
Otherwise it is this Smiths RG Series 12.15 from 1950/51
Mine practically modern compared to others on here. But bought by dad when I was born & mine since 18! 36yrs young and now my fitness & holiday back up watch.
It might be this Rotary, no idea on age, but it is old!
Otherwise it is this Smiths RG Series 12.15 from 1950/51
Not as old as many watches here but old enough to be vintage I think.
Seiko 6458 from the early to mid 1980s:
Simply sublime.Originally Posted by Rich
Father's Longines 13ZN - 1946
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
1938 pre-Heuer Seafarer. I didn’t know of any others for a good few years, then last autumn another one appeared in Japan. Serial numbers would suggest that only a really small batch were made. Not just my oldest but also one of my favourites.
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1940s Cyma WWW for me.
I can't se myself getting anything older than that but there are a couple of others around the 40s/50s I'd like to add, and maybe swap the Cyma for a Longines if a decent one comes up that isn't crazy money. I'd probably rather put the difference towards an IWC Mk 11 though.
In answer to the title, it'd be my Omega Pocket watch (from 1910), but the OP asks which is the oldest wristwatch in my collection in the wording, which makes it this one:
An Omega Seamaster 30. Its serial number dates it to 1961, making it a year older than me.
OR this one:
A Novus, which is engraved with a date of 1962, so could have been made earlier than the Omega.
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
That’s gorgeous. How does the chrono work? Looks like a 6 minute counter and a stop centre seconds. Or am I way off? :).1938 pre-Heuer Seafarer. I didn’t know of any others for a good few years, then last autumn another one appeared in Japan. Serial numbers would suggest that only a really small batch were made. Not just my oldest but also one of my favourites.
Here’s a blast from the 90’s. Adidas chronograph bought for me by my dad for my 16th Birthday in the mid 90’s. I keep meaning to get a new battery in it to see if I still works.
This Rolex from the early 1930’s
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It’s a yacht timer so a five minute countdown for the start of a race. No running seconds just the countdown timer. It’s based on a Mido Multichrono but the minute counter wheel only has one finger (instead of the normal six) so the subdial converts to a five minute count from a standard 30 minute countdown.
It was nice when the other one appeared as it validated mine as being legitimate, but I wish his was rougher and a later SN ;-)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJfUeFPr...=1b8fn9mhmlvnu
Navi from 1966 gets worn at least twice a week.
Technically the oldest in my collection is my mothers hand wind omega which is a little early 60s number but I never wear it ever as its only about 20mm diameter.
For me is the UG from 1963... still in perfect shape
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That's handsome.This Rolex from the early 1930’s
Some great and interesting watches on display here. Makes a change from the same old stuff.
Cheers,
Neil.
Thanks. It's what got me started on this watch collecting madness.
Thanks. Of course, I didn’t think of a yacht timer.
As for the other one, that’s just overpolished, yours has a lot more character ;).
My oldest dates from 1890, so 131 years old.
A Waterbury Series N with a Duplex Escapement which my Grandma gave to my Father during WW2 when he broke his wristwatch. The chain I inherited from my Granddad.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Mine had even more “character” the day it arrived !
Probably this WW2 British Army ATP by Enicar/Racine with a very early NATO type strap.
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My oldest watch will likely be one of my ATPs, my GSTP or my KM issued watch all predate my Waltham A11 from 1944 by a couple of years. (The earliest watch I can date to year of manufacture)
For a bit of fun...
I will throw a tenner in the fundraiser if someone can tell me what links the Alpina above and the bottle of cologne it’s sitting on
:-)
It is (/claims to be, I've never checked) the first Eau de Cologne. So...the first Alpina??
For a bit of fun...
I will throw a tenner in the fundraiser if someone can tell me what links the Alpina above and the bottle of cologne it’s sitting on
:-)
People used to drink it but I'm hoping it's not that!
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Nope...
Both were issued to the German Kriegsmarine.
One for telling the time,
One for making U boats smell a bit better
Each U boat submariner was given a few bottles before each mission as they could not wash when at sea, the idea was they would use the cologne instead. Most kept it and gave it to the wife or the brass in port.
I will, throw a tenner in anyway.
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There was me thinking your watch was issued to Oberleutenant Siegfried Endler, commander of this boat.
https://www.uboat.net/boats/u4711.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206There was me thinking your watch was issued to Oberleutenant Siegfried Endler, commander of this boat
https://www.uboat.net/boats/u4711.htm
Nah this one! It was sunk by someone flushing the toilet.
Hmmm I was a little off then!
It's my current Cologne of choice but it is on the subtle side - you'd need more than a few drops to mask the smell of weeks at sea.
Found this following up on the submarine sunk by its toilet...
"fitted with new deepwater high-pressure toilets which allowed them to be used while running at depth. Flushing these facilities was an extremely complicated procedure and special technicians were trained to operate them"
...there's an issued watch you'd want thoroughly cleaned!
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My oldest watch is a digital. Hard to put an exact date on it, but circa 1900.
Circa 40’s, Benrus Sky Chief venus 178
Delivered in 1945:
Longines ref 5707
Omega CK2444 with later MoD dial and hands
Omega CK2444 with later VB dial
1953, Constellation 2646-6SC
Everything else in the collection is from the 60’s and upwards
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My 1944 Omega 30T2, long since claimed by my wife as her daily wearer.
Nice Benrus but that Longines is a phenomenal example. The case looks as sharp as they come!
Lovely, every one of them
Looks like a Z hallmark date code, post up some better pics of the hallmarks and its quite easy to date the watch.Certainly my oldest but no idea just how old.
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Thanks for the response, I'll take some better snaps.
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Hope these are more revealing, most interested in any thoughts
The movement serial looks to be 23119629 which would date the movement 1919 and the case is a Birmingham Dennison dated 1924.Hope these are more revealing, most interested in any thoughts
Very nice watch and beautiful movement..
Oh, thanks so much for that. My wife pointed it out to me in the window of a bric-a-brac shop about 20 years ago , but I thought it wasn't my sort of thing, until I looked at the movement. Couldn't not have it for the £80 asking price ........
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This little Rado Green Horse for me & still runs beautifully.
This "marriage" is by some margin my oldest piece - the silver case, crystal, movement and (probably) hands are those of a Junghans pocket watch, there's a service date scratched on the movement of "6.1936", so presumably predates that by at least a decade; dial and lugs are likely recent additions - someone on here suggested a Ukrainian origin. Keeps amazingly good time and wears well on the bund for a 49mm watch.
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