Watches in the Philippines

derektrips

Can anyone in the Philippines suggest the best place to purchase watches. Also there must be some vintage watches still here from WW2. Any thoughts?

#watches #philippines
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sfreak
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There is no single place I would call best, mainly it depends on the budget. For new highend watch shopping probably greenbelt 5, the Lucerne and Washington chains which have boutiques all over ncr. Grand Seiko is also available at every large SM mall. But for Seiko and newer affordable watches probably the cubao (farmers) area is better. Here you can find also a lot of mods and clomages.

For vintage it’s a little more difficult, but you can check out makati cinema square.

Maybe also join the next Manila meetup I’m sure a lot of the atrendees will share their knowledge and experience.

derektrips
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Great! Thanks

HKasdf
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I saw plenty of Seikos, lower end of the Swiss market (Certina, Tissot, Oris, etc...) at most of the large SMs around Manila.

I was visiting family when SPB411 just came out and I was surprised to find at least two at every SM I visited. Seikos are very well stocked in the PH.

derektrips
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Thanks!

hakki501
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Online you have Lazada, Shopee and Carousell. AD stores have already been mentioned above. There are also a handful of independent vintage sellers I follow on IG. And, I also heard that there are several of these sellers on FB.

derektrips
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I'm done buying watches online (Lazada). You can see my last post, the great people on this blog kindly🤣 pointed out that my Swatch Moonwatch was a fake. Thanks for the info though!