Category: Collecting

Explore our articles on vintage watch collecting. This covers everything from identifying and researching watches to understanding movements, restoration, and building a meaningful collection.

1970s Certina Bristol 235 wrist watch

February 10, 2024By Jason

This vintage Certina watch is stunning. It is branded, Certina Bristol 235, and has a good quality 17-jewel hand-winding movement, calibre 25-66, which is working nicely and keeping good time. The clean movement bears the Certina name in full. Certina Adolf and Alfred Kurth founded Certina in 1888 in Grenchen, Switzerland. The Swiss watchmaker has…Read more

TAG Heuer 1500 Series Professional 200m

February 1, 2024By Jason

I have owned this particular vintage watch, a TAG Heuer 1500 Series Professional (model WD1221-k-20, serial no. EK4341), for 25 years. It was my first “real” watch. I knew it was Swiss made, I knew of the TAG Heuer brand, and I knew nothing about “real” watches. It is quartz and certainly doesn’t match my…Read more