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I know there are more than a few of us out there who have started too appreciate and love vintage watches. Let's show them off. Tell us why you love them and what drew you to them?
This is an old thread but didn't want to start a new one just for this question. I have this vintage watch that doesn't keep time and am wondering what to do with it.
Options are: wear it as a bracelet, get it fixed and use it, get it fixed and sell it, sell as is. I probably won't wear it much but it belonged to a family member so I'm not quite ready to part with it tbh.
Any advice? Paging @Bron357 with all your magnificent watches
It’s beautiful.
If it is running, it only needs a service. Normally about $200. The watchmaker basically disassembles it and cleans and oils all the parts and reassembles. Fiddly job hence the cost, but worth it. Find a shop that sells older manual wind watches and ask who services / repairs theirs to get a name if you don’t have one.
Manual wind watches don’t keep perfect time, maybe lose or gain a minute or two each day. The other alternative is to get the movement replaced with a quartz movement. That way you never need worry about winding it again.
Or wear it as a beautiful bracelet.