Vintage Watches by DaleVito

The best vintage watch magazine on Flipboard. Vintage watches by Rolex, Patek Philippe, Heuer, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre and many others from a wide variety of blogs and magazines.

Watches
Press Release: Sotheby’s Auction of Omega Speedmaster Watches Achieves $1.2 Million On the Eve of the 50th Anniversary of
speedywatches.com - Dale Vito
Sotheby’s, NEW YORK, 19 July 2019 – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Omega watch landing on the moon in July 1969, Sotheby’s …
Apollo Missions
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hodinkee.com - Jack Forster
It is not difficult to understand just how critical it is to have accurate timing devices for space exploration. It's essential for navigation, just …
Rolex Watches
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hodinkee.com - Stephen Pulvirent
Reference Points was dreamed up as our way of offering definitive guides to the world's most important watches, giving collectors a place to look for …
Watches
Vintage Daytona Scandal in Monaco
perezcope.com - by perezcope
Monaco is slowly becoming a new Mecca for vintage watch auctions. Several auction houses appear to be competing against each other. Accademia Fine …
Watches
Editorial: The Pursuit of Greatness in Vintage Complications | SJX Watches
watchesbysjx.com
There is no real point in collecting anything unless for the sake of beauty. The moment I see a watch for the first time is always the most crucial. …
Watches
The Forgotten Most-Complicated-Watch-Ever Made for the Most Famous Banker Ever
watchesbysjx.com - Su Jiaxian (SJX)
The timepieces that held the title of “most complicated watch ever”, as well as their famous owners, are mostly well known – save for the long-lost …
Longines
How Fidel Castro kept a mid-century Longines in a time-capsule of collectibles
timeandtidewatches.com - Nick Kenyon
Editor’s note: I met Adam for the first time recently at a Longines event, and was blown away when he produced a roll of five watches from his …
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hodinkee.com - James Stacey
NASA's Apollo program likely represents the most ambitious, audacious, and downright impressive adventure of all time, and for those of us in the …
Rolex Watches
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hodinkee.com - Jason Heaton
Bonaire was a different place in the 1950s. While the other islands in the Netherlands Antilles began to flourish with the growth of jetset travel …
Protected: A study of three 6536-1 Rolex Submariner
le-monde-edmond.com - Edmond Saran
Watches
The BlackBird x Mr TK x Phillips Hong Kong Sport Watch Auction
rolexpassionreport.com - Philipp
For the first time ever a prominent Hong Kong watch collector, Mr TK, curated a watch theme sale for Phillips Auctioneers. Over the past years the …
Meet Aurel Bacs, the Man Who Sparked the Vintage Watch Boom
GQ - Cam Wolf
Why are classic timepieces suddenly more sought-after, more Instagrammed, and more valuable than ever before? The answer has a lot to do with auctioneer extraordinaire Aurel Bacs. Before Bacs had even
Phillips to Offer Bruce Lee’s Universal Geneva Polerouter Wristwatch | SJX Watches
watchesbysjx.com
A seemingly standard Universal Genève Polerouter, lot 860 undoubtedly has the most notable provenance of the watches in the upcoming Phillips x …
Highlights: Christie’s Hong Kong Watch Auction | SJX Watches
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Christie’s upcoming Important Watches sale in Hong Kong is typical of auctions in the city, with just over 300 lots covering every aspect of watches, …
Mr A: Auction picks from a millennial
le-monde-edmond.com - Edmond Saran
My Geneva Auction Picks – by Mr. A:I thoroughly enjoy the build up to the Geneva auctions.There is something about the auctioning of pieces in their …
Highlights: Phillips Hong Kong Watch Auction | SJX Watches
watchesbysjx.com
Taking place a day after the Phillips x Blackbird sports watch sale, the Phillips Hong Kong watch auction will see over 290 watches go under the …
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hodinkee.com - Cole Pennington
If you were in a Navy SEAL team in the late '60s you may have been issued a Tudor 7928, before the MIL-W-50717 specification for military dive …
Watches
Highlights From Sotheby’s April London Auction
bexsonn.com - Christopher Beccan
Auction season is on the horizon and of course that means London is one of the first destinations of the year where watch auctions will be held. The …
Auction Report: Four Dark Horses (And One Superstar) At Sotheby's Geneva 'Important Watches' Auction
hodinkee.com - Jack Forster
It can be more than a little numbing to read watch auction results nowadays – the numbers seem to just keep getting bigger, and the same names, same …
Watches
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hodinkee.com - Cole Pennington
On the cover Christie's latest catalog released ahead of their Rare Watches auction on May 13 in Geneva is the grail-status Rolex 6062 in 18k pink …
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hodinkee.com - Stephen Pulvirent
While we've seen the concept of an auction catalog "cover lot" upended a bit over the last few years as online catalogs have supplanted the physical …
Watches
The Mega-Watch of the 1990s Offered for a Song
watchesbysjx.com - Su Jiaxian (SJX)
In 1994, if you were a monarch, billionaire, or even mere millionaire, and you wanted to buy the ultimate, ultimate, wristwatch, it would probably …
Watches
Speedy Tuesday – An Omega Speedmaster CK2915-2 On Auction Today
fratellowatches.com - Robert-Jan Broer
Wait a minute? Didn’t Bukowskis auction a CK2915 before for a record price? Yes they did, and we reported about it here. We also published an …
Watches
A Detailed Look at the George Daniels Grand Complication Pocket Watch
watchesbysjx.com - Su Jiaxian (SJX)
George Daniels’ grand watchmaking career, from a technical perspective, can be divided into three eras. The first saw him produce pocket watches with …
Captain Cook
#TBT Rado Over Pole – A World Timer in a Captain Cook Case
fratellowatches.com - Michael Stockton
And once again, just when you think you’ve seen it all in terms of vintage tool watches, something surprises like the Rado Over Pole. Man, it’s good …
The commercial abuse of the vintage Rolex term “Tropical”
rolexpassionreport.com - Philipp
The definition of “Tropical” has been abused too often by privates and dealers in the market. Naming a damaged dial an original tropical is not ok and …
Watches
Auction Report: Phillips To Offer A Unique 1930s Vacheron Constantin Minute Repeater With Retrograde Calendar
hodinkee.com - Stephen Pulvirent
Watch collecting is a funny pursuit, in that enthusiasts are both always in search of that next great thing and healthily skeptical of anything that …