Daniel... Watch deja vu
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wrote on 22 Mar 2025, 21:24 last edited by
Huge IWC advert (FTimes weekend magazine) for their latest retro offering had me scurrying to find my 1978 Omega:
Not sure if I'm a fan of guilloche, but I know that new metal strap will be more comfortable.
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wrote on 5 Apr 2025, 20:00 last edited by
This watch gets lost in the junk of our house, then it turns up again. Small, thin face, probably made for a woman. I liked the chinese numbering, bought in the early 1990's.
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wrote on 5 Apr 2025, 20:46 last edited by
Andy, I like them both! Thanks!
I owned a basic IWC Cal. 89, 18,000 bph. Trains would have collided if that watch had anything to do with it.
I probably should have sold it but I disassembled it to look at the movement.
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wrote on 6 Apr 2025, 12:44 last edited by
You disassembled an IWC! Did you get it working again?
Can anyone here confirm the Chinese characters are vintage and were used to stop people faking/adjusting more simple ways of writing numbers on cheques etc?
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wrote on 6 Apr 2025, 12:55 last edited by Daniel. 4 Jun 2025, 13:01
Lol!
No, I ended up with a pile of parts. I couldn't put them back together.
I knew the watch would be ruined by my experiment.
It was the kind of watch aimed at office workers before the quartz revolution and cellphones.
It was a watch for collectors by the time I bought it.
It wasn't an expensive IWC like the ones now.