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Vintage Watches

Every vintage watch has a story to tell, and that’s what makes them special. Each piece offers a unique window into the past that traces back through generations, and owning one means getting to enjoy a piece of decades-old mechanical art. Welcome to the world of vintage.

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  33. Laurent Ferrier Laurent Ferrier
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The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 15200 251715
Vintage

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual Date
15200

Box
Papers
Year 1993
£3,700
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 269496
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1996
£3,695
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 266593
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1989
£4,100
Rolex Datejust 16233 276856
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1990
£4,800
Rolex Datejust 16234 274429
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1997
£5,945
Rolex Datejust 16030 259164
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16030

Box
Papers
Year 1987
£6,060
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 261493
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1990
£3,885
Rolex Datejust 16233 272697
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1992
£4,640
Rolex Datejust 16234 262206
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1992
£6,400
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68273 258862
Limited Edition

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68273

Box
Papers
Year 1989
£5,010
Rolex Turn-O-Graph 1625 238547
Vintage

Rolex
Turn-O-Graph
1625

Box
Papers
Year 1970
£5,250
Rolex Cellini 4112 258737
Vintage

Rolex
Cellini
4112

Box
Papers
Year 1993
£3,990
Rolex Yacht-Master 169623 255455
Vintage

Rolex
Yacht-Master
169623

Box
Papers
Year 1999
£5,250
Rolex Day-Date 18038 256420
Vintage

Rolex
Day-Date
18038

Box
Papers
Year 1981
£12,750
Patek Philippe Pagoda 2461 272106
Vintage

Patek Philippe
Pagoda
2461

Box
Papers
Year 1999
£13,750
Tudor Monte Carlo 94300 274891
Vintage

Tudor
Monte Carlo
94300

Box
Papers
Year 1999
£14,310
Omega Speedmaster Date 3711.20.11 256224
Vintage

Omega
Speedmaster Date
3711.20.11

Box
Papers
Year 1992
£2,995
Breitling Chronospace A56012.1 263089
Limited Edition

Breitling
Chronospace
A56012.1

Box
Papers
Year 1994
£2,950
Breitling Montbrillant H41030 261143
Vintage

Breitling
Montbrillant
H41030

Box
Papers
Year 1998
£7,950
Patek Philippe Nautilus 3800/1J 234425
Vintage

Patek Philippe
Nautilus
3800/1J

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£114,420
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Pearlmaster 69299 213272
Vintage

Rolex
Pearlmaster
69299

Box
Papers
Year 1993
Product Location
£18,250
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Day-Date 18038 216815
Vintage

Rolex
Day-Date
18038

Box
Papers
Year 1978
Product Location
£18,770
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68273 196404
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68273

Box
Papers
Year 1987
Product Location
£5,215
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 15223 199824
Vintage

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual Date
15223

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
£5,420
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69174 230543
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69174

Box
Papers
Year 1997
Product Location
£4,360
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 230214
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1984
Product Location
£4,950
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Daytona 16523 228117
Vintage

Rolex
Daytona
16523

Box
Papers
Year 1996
Product Location
£16,165
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Submariner 16618 212227
Vintage

Rolex
Submariner
16618

Box
Papers
Year 1991
Product Location
£28,675
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Daytona 6262 219797
Vintage

Rolex
Daytona
6262

Box
Papers
Year 1998
Product Location
£57,350
incl. import taxes & duties
Piaget Tanagra 16031M4010 196795
Vintage

Piaget
Tanagra
16031M4010

Box
Papers
Year 1997
Product Location
£5,735
incl. import taxes & duties
Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch ST 145.022 197436
Vintage

Omega
Speedmaster Moonwatch
ST 145.022

Box
Papers
Year 1989
Product Location
£3,910
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Must 21 83090171 277365
Vintage

Cartier
Must 21
83090171

Box
Papers
Year 1990
Product Location
£1,180
incl. import taxes & duties
Tudor Oysterdate 79160 274376
Vintage

Tudor
Oysterdate
79160

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£5,925
incl. import taxes & duties
Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse 3848 275767
Vintage

Patek Philippe
Golden Ellipse
3848

Box
Papers
Year 1990
Product Location
£7,925
incl. import taxes & duties
Breitling Chronomat B13047 276930
Vintage

Breitling
Chronomat
B13047

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£2,170
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16220 277042
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16220

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
£4,275
incl. import taxes & duties
Cartier Tank Francaise W51003Q3 263257
Vintage

Cartier
Tank Francaise
W51003Q3

Box
Papers
Year 1998
Product Location
£2,280
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16014 262973
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16014

Box
Papers
Year 1979
Product Location
£3,960
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16233 262572
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£5,630
incl. import taxes & duties
Omega Seamaster 300m 2332.80.00 253473
Vintage

Omega
Seamaster 300m
2332.80.00

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£2,835
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Day-Date 18238 258442
Vintage

Rolex
Day-Date
18238

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£15,975
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69174 232169
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69174

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
£4,335
incl. import taxes & duties

Vintage Watches

There has been a huge upsurge in vintage watch collecting over the past twenty years, a natural consequence perhaps of the mechanical watch revival that took place in the 1990s after the doom-laden era of the quartz crisis had receded.

Since then vintage watches have grabbed the watch industry’s biggest headlines, with a number of Rolex and Patek Philippe models regularly selling for well over a million dollars at the most prestigious auction houses.

Vintage watches have never been in such high demand, with even models from lesser-known brands seeing their value increase ten-fold over the last decade or so. Of course, precious few vintage timepieces—or any timepieces, for that matter—will reach anywhere near the astronomical price ($17.75 million) fetched by Paul Newman’s Daytona in 2017, but a vintage watch by a brand like Omega or Zenith which sold for a couple of hundred pounds in the 1990s, would fetch several times that in today’s market.

If you’re wondering what defines a vintage watch in the first place, the answer isn’t set in stone. Some people consider any pre-1980 model to qualify as vintage, while others insist it’s anything over 25 years old. Any watch over a hundred years old, on the other hand, is classed as an antique—one you might consider locking in a safe rather than actually wearing.

If you’re thinking of starting your own vintage collection featuring the most established brands, there are a number of names and models to consider. Vintage Patek Philippe pieces are among the most desirable, whether it’s a pre-World War II time-only Calatrava, a 1970s Nautilus or any perpetual calendar model in gold or platinum.

The most popular vintage Audemars Piguet models are the first-generation Royal Oaks, a luxury steel sports model launched in 1972 that gave rise to a whole new genre in high-end watchmaking.

Extremely rare and therefore much sought-after are vintage Panerai watches, of which as few as 350 were made between 1938 and 1994, after which the brand finally began making watches commercially and for the civilian market, rather than just for the Italian navy. Vintage Radiomir and Luminor models now command six-figure sums at auction.

Vintage Breitling and vintage Jaeger-LeCoultre watches are generally more affordable than the above, but even more wallet-friendly are a number of chronograph models by the legendary Heuer.

Vintage TAG Heuer (as it is now called) is best represented by several chronograph models with strong motor-racing links, the most famous being the square-cased Monaco. Famously worn by Hollywood maverick Steve McQueen, this distinctive and iconic timepiece is now a regular in the brand’s catalogue, with a number of dial variations and special editions. There’s something extra-cool about the early models, though, whose tiny imperfections enhance their appeal.

A few oft-repeated rules for budding vintage collectors are as follows: always buy from a trusted seller; try to buy watches with all original parts (dials, for example, have often been repainted or replaced on older watches); and never wear any vintage watch, whether a diver’s watch or not, in water as it will have almost certainly lost its water resistance due to the seals on the gaskets eroding.

And don’t be put off by faded lume, the odd battle scar and a little patina. Part of the charm of a vintage watch is that it’s been around the block a few times, had a few different wearers, got a few tales to tell.

At Watchfinder we sell a number of vintage models from brands including Rolex, Tudor, Zenith, Omega and more. Browse our selection online today to find your perfect vintage timepiece and add another chapter to its story.

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