Nice old mens Longines I got last night at the trift store

[tamrock]

On Sunday nights the local thift store puts out the incoming stuff in the jewelry case. I picked up this nice old vintage stainless steel mens Longines wristwatch just last night for $9.95+tax. I've had it on till now and it runs very well and its keeping great time. I've been saving the old watches up like the gold and silver and now have a bunch worth some good money. Haven't looked on completed sales yet to see how well this would do. I'm sure with the crytal buffed and a nice black band it would do 70-80 or more.

 

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[frankendime]

Nice watch! I find myself gravitating towards watches as well but am uneducated on the subject I guess and find myself passing on some I regret later. I tell myself that nobody wears wristwatches anymore and the ones I find seem to be a tough sell. I've gathered around 50, mostly ladies watches. I'm gonna study this more. Hope you do well with this!

 

[vpnavy]

Nice buy tamrock - thanks for sharing...

 

[Iron Patch]

Nice watch! I find myself gravitating towards watches as well but am uneducated on the subject I guess and find myself passing on some I regret later. I tell myself that nobody wears wristwatches anymore and the ones I find seem to be a tough sell. I've gathered around 50, mostly ladies watches. I'm gonna study this more. Hope you do well with this!

Check out the yearly sales for Rolex, Omega, and Breitling, and you'll see plenty of people are still wearing and buying watches. The numbers dropped during the recession but are very strong again, and with a growing Asian market they'll probably continue to improve.

Of course most you find at sales for cheap are junk and basically worthless.

 

[tamrock]

Check out the yearly sales for Rolex, Omega, and Breitling, and you'll see plenty of people are still wearing and buying watches. The numbers dropped during the recession but are very strong again, and with a growing Asian market they'll probably continue to improve.

Of course most you find at sales for cheap are junk and basically worthless.

I pick up the mens wristwatches only unless its a gold case ladies watch for the right price. I did at a Knights of Columbus sale snatch up a mens 1950's Breitling Chrono for 10 bucks and sold for over 900. The most I gave for a mens watch was a Mens wristwatch late 1930's 18K Audemars Piguet with 14K mesh band. I gave 1200 for it and sold it for over 3400. I've been blown away on some of the amount of money I've got for these 1970's and early 1980's Seiko, Citizen and Casio LCD watches. Two month ago I got a stainless Seiko LCD Silver Wave for 5 bucks and it did 230. The buyer from the UK said he'll buy any others like it I find and gave me a list to look for he even wanted the plastic one from the 70's early 80's era. Stick to Mens wristwatches, most great looking and cool ones will sell, focus on the brand name a Timex not gonna sell well. I collect the old windup's and automatics and wish I hadn't sold some I had in the past. I stated ebay selling of my collection of vintage watches and wish now I'd kept some of the better ones, as they are hard to find at a good price these days. Not that I'll get a fortune out of my Longines, but this broken Longines did okay recently and that helps in keeping the brand name strong Vintage Lot Longines Watches Swiss Pilot Telemetre Anti Magnetique Need Service | eBay Check the sales history before you buy though. I find the kind of wristwatches I'm looking for at Pawn Shops, Antique Stores, Thrift Stores, Yard Sales & Flea Markets. Pocket watches are not for amateurs allot to know there as most you find are undesirable and way over priced. Get this book. Its been my watch buying bible. Complete Price Guide to Watches: Cooksey Shugart, Tom Engle, Richard E. Gilbert, Martha Shugart: 9781574321302: Amazon.com: Books

Study the Real vs. Knock Offs. You will see the difference in the quality of construction in every detail. I've seen some very knowledgeable collectors get jipt. Go to a high end jewelry stores and study the real deal in every way. The pins in the bands, the hands, the dials and case will be all made in the geatest detail, If its in a place like I mentioned I look for vintage watches and you find a Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer or any well known expensive name its 99.9% fake. Pawn Shops are real good at putting those out and many estate sales seed the place with fake crap also.

 

[diggummup]

Nice watch. I guess the band isn't original since you mention putting a black band on it?

 

[Iron Patch]

I pick up the mens wristwatches only unless its a gold case ladies watch for the right price. I did at a Knights of Columbus sale snatch up a mens 1950's Breitling Chrono for 10 bucks and sold for over 900. The most I gave for a mens watch was a Mens wristwatch late 1930's 18K Audemars Piguet with 14K mesh band. I gave 1200 for it and sold it for over 3400. I've been blown away on some of the amount of money I've got for these 1970's and early 1980's Seiko, Citizen and Casio LCD watches. Two month ago I got a stainless Seiko LCD Silver Wave for 5 bucks and it did 230. The buyer from the UK said he'll buy any others like it I find and gave me a list to look for he even wanted the plastic one from the 70's early 80's era. Stick to Mens wristwatches, most great looking and cool ones will sell, focus on the brand name a Timex not gonna sell well. I collect the old windup's and automatics and wish I hadn't sold some I had in the past. I stated ebay selling of my collection of vintage watches and wish now I'd kept some of the better ones, as they are hard to find at a good price these days. Not that I'll get a fortune out of my Longines, but this broken Longines did okay recently and that helps in keeping the brand name strong Vintage Lot Longines Watches Swiss Pilot Telemetre Anti Magnetique Need Service | eBay Check the sales history before you buy though. I find the kind of wristwatches I'm looking for at Pawn Shops, Antique Stores, Thrift Stores, Yard Sales & Flea Markets. Pocket watches are not for amateurs allot to know there as most you find are undesirable and way over priced. Get this book. Its been my watch buying bible. Complete Price Guide to Watches: Cooksey Shugart, Tom Engle, Richard E. Gilbert, Martha Shugart: 9781574321302: Amazon.com: Books

Study the Real vs. Knock Offs. You will see the difference in the quality of construction in every detail. I've seen some very knowledgeable collectors get jipt. Go to a high end jewelry stores and study the real deal in every way. The pins in the bands, the hands, the dials and case will be all made in the geatest detail, If its in a place like I mentioned I look for vintage watches and you find a Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer or any well known expensive name its 99.9% fake. Pawn Shops are real good at putting those out and many estate sales seed the place with fake crap also.

Knowledge is the key. I like watches, have two Breitlings and am familiar with basically all the brands out there, but I wouldn't be able to price older pieces, and wouldn't have the confidence dropping hundreds or thousands. Coins and relics yes, watches not so much.

The AP would have definitely got my attention though, as it's my favorite brand that I'll most likely never be able to afford, or not willing to buy at what they cost.

 

[tamrock]

Nice watch. I guess the band isn't original since you mention putting a black band on it?

The band is a 50s replaced expansion type and not original. I think a black leather band goes well with a stainless steel watch. The crown is a signed Longines and that alone is worth 20+ bucks and twice what I paid for the watch. I would be able to even get more out of it by selling the crown separately and putting a new one on the watch. I went for a signed Gruen band buckle once on ebay to put on a nice Curvex I have and was beat out on my $40.00 high bid. I won't sell the crown alone, as I'm a collector of these type of watches and like them to be as original as possible. I sell the modern quartz watches along with other things that are worth more then I buy to finance my watch, gold & silver investment.

 

[Dirt.Is.Good.4U]

Nice find!

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[tamrock]

I did get a good deal on the AP and with todays price of gold it would be around the $4000+ range today. Here's one other story about that AP I'll tell you. The watch was in a small town in a jewelry store on a consignment. It was brought in for consignment buy a old women. She told the consigner, she many years ago dated the fighter Jack Dempsey and one night he gave it to her after a date. I sent a note to AP with info and the Ser. No. of the watch. They said it was ordered by a Jeweler in Chigago in 1939. Thats all they could tell me and that Jeweler in Chigago was no longer around anymore for maybe years. The trail went cold. The consigning jeweler did tell me that the old women did show him a pocket watch fob with a small pen knife on it that had a monogram of JD on it. I tried like hell to find a photo or any thing that could prove I have a watch once owned by The Great Jack Dempsey, but fell way to short. The watch was getting a new main sping put in and the watch maker who I think contacts a big collector from Boulder Colorado would call him any time things like the AP came to his shop. Thats how the deal of selling it came and I made a good deal for more then I paid and sold it to that collector. Lastly my wife wasn't please I bought that watch and said it gave her the creeps? Its just a watch, well for maybe to much to pay for a watch I could agree... Now the spooky part. After I purchased that watch from the Jewelrer, he was killed falling in a hicking trip he took in the mountain a month or so later. The collecter who purchased it from me came down with cancer and died shortly after he purchased the AP. Maybe my wife was right in convincing me to get rid of that watch. Who ever did originally own that watch must have had a wrist the size of a 'Wiffle Ball Bat' as it would fall over my hand when connected and was unadjustble and very long. I could never wear it with the solid gold band it came with.