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My first vintage watch purchase - 60’s DOXA Cobart F1
The paradox of a beautiful movement behind a solid case back
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888 is the Rolex/Tudor country code for Hong Kong. Both papers are of watches sold in that market. The serial code after is unique.
Hodinkee was awesome pre 2019. It felt like a community and there was great content that was enthusiast focused and had no commercial angle. They used to do a weekly article called Bring a Loupe which was a round up of interesting vintage watches for sale on eBay and watch forums. Hodinkee peaked for me around their 10th anniversary when the had a weekend long event of panel discussions that was live-streamed on YouTube. (Here’s my favourite video from the weekend https://www.youtube.com/live/0sFAZCosMoI?si=Q3Kec1oQJTVVkvWF ). After that everything got more and more commercial with nearly every piece of content focused on making a sale of some sort. I still read some articles from time to time, and some of it is still all right, but on the whole I’ve moved on…
Croton CASD circa 1963
The applied Arabic numerals at the hour markers are great. Way more interesting than the stick dial on the standard versions.
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