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🚨S.O.S what watch is this ?!?!?

This is my great -grandfathers watch. I’ve just changed the capacitor and finally have it working. I know it’s a kinetic movement introduced in the la...
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Grandfather’s Doxa from the 1960s ⏱️

An incredibly well preserved example of an old Doxa that I inherited from my grandfather who died in 2006. ❤️ I immediately took the watch to the serv...
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Grandpa Watches

Anyone else have a good grandpa watch to share?
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My grandfather's watch

Managed to retrieve my grandfather's watch from the village house. Some people's grandpa might've left behind a vintage rolex or omega piece, but my g...
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Today it’s Grandpa’s Omega from the 1930s. The one that got me interested in watches. Still runs perfectly, which just blows my mind
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Grandfather’s watch

Recently, my uncle gifted me this watch. He told me that my grandfather would have liked it me to have it, and for me this was very special because I...
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Refurbishing my grandfathers Lorus

Recently my mom found the watch my grandfather used to wear. A quartz Lorus from the early 1980s. I decided to refurbish it... put a fresh battery in,...
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Discoveries of summer

Everybody has a watch to which it aspires to get For some people that goal is a luxury watch like a Rolex or an Audemars Piguet, for others a Seiko or...
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Follow-up on Pocket Watch Display

Last week I posted photos of my grandfather’s 1925 Hamilton pocket watch and wondered how best to display it. I followed the advice of a reply and bou...
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Timex Still Ticking!

Two weeks ago I received a collection of my dad’s old watches that he no longer wears. Among them were two vintage Timex Mercurys, one from 1962 and t...
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