Category: Vintage watch

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 Certina is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1888 by Adolf and Alfred Kurth in Grenchen,…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