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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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  7. Tag Heuer Tag Heuer
  8. Cartier Cartier
  9. Hublot Hublot
  10. Jaeger-LeCoultre Jaeger-LeCoultre
  11. Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin
  12. Patek Philippe Patek Philippe
  13. Audemars Piguet Audemars Piguet
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  1. A. Lange and Sohne A. Lange and Sohne
  2. Arnold and Son Arnold and Son
  3. Audemars Piguet Audemars Piguet
  4. B.R.M Watches B.R.M Watches
  5. Ball Ball
  6. Baume et Mercier Baume et Mercier
  7. Bell and Ross Bell and Ross
  8. Blancpain Blancpain
  9. Breguet Breguet
  10. Breitling Breitling
  11. Bremont Bremont
  12. Bvlgari Bvlgari
  13. Carl F. Bucherer Carl F. Bucherer
  14. Cartier Cartier
  15. Chanel Chanel
  16. Chopard Chopard
  17. Christian Dior Christian Dior
  18. Corum Corum
  19. Eterna Eterna
  20. F.P. Journe F.P. Journe
  21. Franck Muller Franck Muller
  22. Frederique Constant Frederique Constant
  23. Girard Perregaux Girard Perregaux
  24. Glashutte Original Glashutte Original
  25. Graham Graham
  26. Grand Seiko Grand Seiko
  27. H. Moser and Cie H. Moser and Cie
  28. Hamilton Hamilton
  29. Hermes Hermes
  30. Hublot Hublot
  31. IWC IWC
  32. Jaeger-LeCoultre Jaeger-LeCoultre
  33. Jaquet Droz Jaquet Droz
  34. JeanRichard JeanRichard
  35. Laurent Ferrier Laurent Ferrier
  36. Longines Longines
  37. Louis Erard Louis Erard
  38. Maurice Lacroix Maurice Lacroix
  39. Montblanc Montblanc
  40. Nomos Glashutte Nomos Glashutte
  41. Omega Omega
  42. Oris Oris
  43. Panerai Panerai
  44. Parmigiani Parmigiani
  45. Patek Philippe Patek Philippe
  46. Perrelet Perrelet
  47. Piaget Piaget
  48. Porsche Design Porsche Design
  49. Rado Rado
  50. Raymond Weil Raymond Weil
  51. Richard Mille Richard Mille
  52. Roger Dubuis Roger Dubuis
  53. Rolex Rolex
  54. Romain Jerome Romain Jerome
  55. Tag Heuer Tag Heuer
  56. Tudor Tudor
  57. Ulysse Nardin Ulysse Nardin
  58. Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin
  59. Zenith Zenith
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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 Datejust 16233 272697
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
$6,355
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16234 282335
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1998
Product Location
$9,345
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16220 277042
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16220

Box
Papers
Year 1992
$5,530
Rolex Datejust 16234 262206
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
$8,770
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16030 279700
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16030

Box
Papers
Year 1986
Product Location
$4,335
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69174 230543
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69174

Box
Papers
Year 1997
$4,445
Rolex Datejust Lady 69178 267302
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69178

Box
Papers
Year 1999
Product Location
$9,935
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16234 274429
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1997
Product Location
$8,145
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16220 266375
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16220

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
$8,560
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16200 282563
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16200

Box
Papers
Year 1998
Product Location
$6,775
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16030 282006
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16030

Box
Papers
Year 1979
Product Location
$7,190
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16014 262973
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16014

Box
Papers
Year 1979
$5,015
Rolex Datejust 16234 274178
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16234

Box
Papers
Year 1996
Product Location
$6,665
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 230214
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1984
$5,050
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68240 269426
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68240

Box
Papers
Year 1994
Product Location
$6,365
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16238 275953
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16238

Box
Papers
Year 1989
Product Location
$16,695
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68274 269721
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68274

Box
Papers
Year 1989
Product Location
$7,070
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68273 196404
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68273

Box
Papers
Year 1987
$5,320
Rolex Datejust Lady 69174 282126
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69174

Box
Papers
Year 1986
Product Location
$4,965
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16233 270350
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1989
Product Location
$7,215
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69174 272886
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69174

Box
Papers
Year 1997
Product Location
$5,630
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16014 263755
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16014

Box
Papers
Year 1978
Product Location
$5,775
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68274 276533
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68274

Box
Papers
Year 1987
Product Location
$8,150
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 1601 275671
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
1601

Box
Papers
Year 1976
Product Location
$4,370
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16233 275807
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1990
Product Location
$7,660
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex GMT Master II 16710 280245
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master II
16710

Box
Papers
Year 1997
Product Location
$11,895
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68240 273624
Vintage

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68240

Box
Papers
Year 1993
$5,275
Rolex GMT Master II 16710 261986
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master II
16710

Box
Papers
Year 1995
Product Location
$14,040
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust Lady 69173 232375
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust Lady
69173

Box
Papers
Year 1990
$5,185
Rolex Datejust 16233 262572
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1994
$7,400
Rolex GMT Master 1675 242016
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master
1675

Box
Papers
Year 1971
Product Location
$14,765
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16233 275348
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1991
Product Location
$7,460
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex GMT Master 16750 258446
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master
16750

Box
Papers
Year 1984
$14,125
Rolex Datejust 16030 282135
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16030

Box
Papers
Year 1983
Product Location
$7,175
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16233 262212
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16233

Box
Papers
Year 1996
Product Location
$6,370
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 15223 252448
Vintage

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual Date
15223

Box
Papers
Year 1992
Product Location
$7,555
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex GMT Master II 16713 272221
Vintage

Rolex
GMT Master II
16713

Box
Papers
Year 1996
Product Location
$11,210
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Mid-Size Datejust 68273 258862
Limited Edition

Rolex
Mid-Size Datejust
68273

Box
Papers
Year 1989
Product Location
$6,865
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Datejust 16000 267307
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16000

Box
Papers
Year 1988
Product Location
$7,215
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 15223 199824
Vintage

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual Date
15223

Box
Papers
Year 1992
$6,825
Rolex Datejust 16220 265292
Vintage

Rolex
Datejust
16220

Box
Papers
Year 1991
Product Location
$6,480
incl. import taxes & duties
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 1500 275878
Vintage

Rolex
Oyster Perpetual Date
1500

Box
Papers
Year 1986
Product Location
$4,725
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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