The Watches

Gentle reader,

Unusual for me to do two posts so close together. But, it's cool and raining, I'm home alone, what I'd planned to do was outside stuff, so here you go.

A couple years ago, I had 33 watches. I cut down the collection to twenty as that is what size my watch holder box is. Well, I realized that I only wear a few of them, so decided to sell half. Cutting it down to an even ten. Here are the ones I previously sold on eBay:

The two below are 2/3rds of the only real Swiss made watches I've owned. Swatch revolutionized watch making which brought Swiss workmanship to the common person.

As you can see, most of them are chronographs, which are watches with built-in stop watches. The lot consisted of older watches that I no longer wore.

 The top-most of this group is a "2CAN" all stainless steel chrono. Sadly, it is hard to see the face. Very well made, it will be going on eBay. The next four are all made for Adee Kaye of Beverly Hills. The stainless steel unit is their version of the Rolex Daytona. Face has smaller sub-dials than the real thing. It too is going on eBay. Next is their version of the TAG-HEUER Monaco. Made famous by Steve McQueen as his character, Michael Delaney in the 1971 film Le Mans. His was a two sub-dial HEUER with a blue face. Made long before TAG merged with HEUER. The newer ones have three dials. Unlike this one, they are a contrasting color. Still, I like and am keeping this one. The two sub-dial unit, has the sub-dials vertically arranged, where the Monaco's are horizontal. It is going on eBay. The last one and easiest to read is not for sale.

The CTI above has a rotating bezel. I assume it should be set so 60 is at the top, but what it's for, I haven't a clue. Lots of extremely tiny markings on it. I wish I'd gotten a black faced one as it's hard to see the hands.

Starting at the top of this group, made and sold by CTI, is an excellent copy of a Breitling aviator's chronograph watch. In normal use, only the minute and hour hands move. However, press the top button and the top sub-dial starts zooming around, one revolution per second. The second hand records the seconds the other two sub-dials do the minutes and hours. Very pretty and heavy watch. Next are two Fossil chrono watches. Both are going on eBay. Then the two photos show front and rear of my fake HEUER Monza. The face has HEUER only. The back has TAG-HEUER. Keeping that one. The bottom two are two versions of Invicta's take on the Rolex Daytona. All stainless steel and gold with nice leather band. I'm keeping both of these.

 The above is a PRAGUE which I bought because it is named after the city in the former Czech Republic. Being that I'm half Czech, well you get it. It's going on eBay regardless. 

The gold Seiko above I got new for a bargain price. I don't think I ever wore it! It's going on eBay. The stainless steel one is the most recent Swatch. Unlike a lot of Swatches, it is all metal. Has four jewels in it's movement. So, unlike all those "Tribute Rolex" watches, it really does have a Swiss movement.

Thanks for looking,

Scott