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5 Questions: Vintage watch dealer Tom B
01 November 2021Tom B has been interested in antiques since youth when he accompanied his father around car boots and charity shops. He founded GungaDin Watches in 2015 focusing on vintage and pre-owned timepieces.
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Valuable watches stolen in ‘brazen theft’ at Cheshire antiques centre
19 August 2021Cheshire Police has issued CCTV images of two men they would like to speak to in connection with a theft at an antiques centre in Northwich.
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Pick of the week: Spending quality time with Pablo Picasso
31 May 2021The silvered dial to this 1960s stainless steel bracelet watch gives a clue to its former owner.
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Picasso the man of the hour
17 May 2021A rare watch worn by Pablo Picasso will feature as one of the attractions in the Luxury Watch sale to be held by Bonhams in Paris on May 20.
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Two electronic watches making three figures at auction
08 March 2021Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 was among the first commercially successful electronic watch.
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Value judgment: Interview with the new head of watches at Lyon & Turnbull
08 March 2021With classic watches usually priced in five or six figures, it is worth discovering the less well-known brands and especially those from the 1980s, says newly appointed Lyon & Turnbull specialist Sarah Fergusson
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George Achard ruby and diamond ring watch from c.1780 emerges at Hamburg sale
25 January 2021Cortrie in Hamburg is holding an auction of watches and vintage timepieces on February 13.
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Wind it even with gloves
21 December 2020Estimated at £800-1000 at Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) but sold at £10,000 was this International Watch Company Luftwaffe pilot’s watch, c.1940.
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Elvis Presley’s 18ct Corum Buckingham watch to be offered at Sworders this month
02 November 2020A watch worn many times by the king of rock and roll at the peak of his career comes for sale at Sworders this month.
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Rare TR-900 survivors dive into Massachusetts auction
02 November 2020The latest online sale of Clocks, Watches, & Scientific Instruments held by Skinner (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Marlborough, Massachusetts included two of perhaps only 50 surviving Tornek-Rayville TR-900 stainless steel dive watches.
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Movado Calendograf: Warhol was a fan
02 November 2020This Movado model 14776 triple calendar watch is best known as the Calendograf.
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‘Dirty Dozen’ Grana sets new £18,000 high
12 October 2020A Grana Ministry of Defence wristwatch – the hardest to find of the so-called ‘Dirty Dozen’ watches made by 12 Swiss manufacturers for the British army– sold for £18,000 at Thomas Miller in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Vintage Seiko watches make waves at auction
14 September 2020The Japanese battery-powered watches once viewed as cheap and lacking soul are now being taken seriously at auction despite collector snobbery
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Omega Speedmaster with ‘TV’ dial sells at Richard Winterton
14 September 2020Perhaps the quirkiest of all of the many Omega Speedmaster models is this one with a cushion shape or ‘TV’ dial.
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Watch tested to not quite destruction
14 September 2020The Rolex GMT-Master, originally designed in collaboration with Pan American Airways and issued by the airline to their crews on long-haul flights, was made as an aviator watch.
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On a mission to impress: collection of Omega Speedmaster chronographs emerges in Portugal
14 September 2020To mark the 40th anniversary of the Speedmaster Professional as a space exploration tool in 1997, Omega created the Missions Collection.
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‘Pogue’ Seiko craved by collectors
14 September 2020The Seiko Ref 6139 or Pogue is a watch that many ‘Swiss’ collectors covet because of its good looks and space heritage.
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Omega 'Ed White' Speedmaster takes £8500 in Buckinghamshire sale
14 September 2020The highlight of NASA’s 1965 Gemini IV mission was the first space walk by an American. As astronaut Ed White floated free outside the spacecraft for approximately 20 minutes in June 3 he wore an Omega Speedmaster Ref 105.003 strapped by Velcro to the outside of the left-side sleeve of his G4C space suit.
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Rare Rolex Submariner watch sets house record for auction house Fellows
24 August 2020After a five minute bidding battle a rare Rolex Military Submariner watch was hammered down at £140,000 (£165,200 including premium) at Fellows Auctioneers in Birmingham.
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Lemania – maker to the British forces
15 June 2020Lemania is a name that should be as well-known as that of Omega or Tissot. The firm – dubbed by one watch blogger as ‘the greatest maker of watches that you may never have heard of’ – provided every single chronograph movement that those much better-known brands used until the 1970s.
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