Shinola with new gator strap wife got me for Christmas Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I've been wearing my 10th Anni Franck Muller Casablanca a lot lately, especially since I got a sweet Gustav leather strap by Greg Stevens. Love this watch! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
not sure why, but those watches always remind me of vintage Parisian metro stop signs. there's a certain art deco modernism about them. I love them. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Time for a vintage post. Here is my Heuer Autavia Viceroy. The full story of this watch is pretty intriguing. It was the first automatic chronograph ever. Heuer put the crown on the wrong side to emphasize this. It makes it a pain to adjust time, but the public quickly understood that it did not need to be wound. Before Heuer partnered with a cigarette company they were a boutique brand and sold a few thousand of these watches per year at ~$200 to gearheads and sportsmen. After the campaign where you could get one for $88 with a proof of purchase from a carton of Viceroy cigarettes....they sold a few thousand per month. Exact figures and history are in this excellent hodinkee article: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/ode-to-smoke Can you imagine this sort of a scheme now? For example....Breguet wants to increase market penetration, so they partner with a medicinal marijuana company out of Colorado? Here is the pic. BTW, I am shifting the monogram to the right cuff. It makes things too busy. I am also looking at all those bands and bracelets that people are wearing in the posts here. Lastly, the watch just happened to be at 10:10, which is recommendation for watch photos in catalogues (looks symmetrical, so more appealing) Image Unavailable, Please Login
thanks for sharing that link...I'd never heard of the Viceroy promotion! interesting stuff. nice watch btw
My father smoked. I got him to save up the labels and bought one new as a teenager with grass cutting money. I went the extra $20 and got the mesh bracelet instead of the rubber one. I still have it. I sent it to Heuer a few years back and they sent it back like new. One of the few watches I bought brand new.
I have a 20 year old Jaeger LeCoultre watch, Any ideas on how to price and/or sell. Couple places here in Denver that say they buy watches, but I don't want to walk in with "sucker" on my forehead. ha. Have the original box/case and literature. Very good condition. I can post the model if that helps. Thank you in advance.
This vintage Rolex Airking is becoming one of my favorite watches. I really like how unobstrusive it is, compared to modern, chunky watches. It's the "Q-ship" of watches. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login