Collectible Watches

"AMERICA'S FINE WATCH"   HAMILTON 1941 Coral Martin "Shortly before WWII, rose gold became very fashionable, just as it is today. (...) Several watch manufacturers introduced rose gold models and Hamilton was no exception. There are solid rose gold as...

JUMP HOUR WATCH "The early mechanical digital watches are the ancestors of the modern digital watch." As a modern digital watch, a vintage mechanical digital watch also displays the time using digits or numerically with the difference that a mechanical...

ILLINOIS Watch Co. The Illinois Watch Company was one of the premier American watch manufactures. It was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bun, and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob...

HAMILTON Thinline 2019 14K White Gold Hamilton introduced the Thinline line in 1958 and become very popular during the 1960's with a lot of "Thin" models as either Thinmatics (for selfwinding watches) or Thinline (for manual winding models). This UNIQUE...

HAMILTON 1941 MARTIN "Coral Martin" "Shortly before WWII, rose gold became very fashionable, just as it is today. (...) Several watch manufacturers introduced rose gold models and Hamilton was no exception. There are solid rose gold as well as gold...

A. HIRSCH Co. Achille Hirsch was a French that emigrated to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in the 1870's. He was an employee in the watchmaking industry. At first he worked using the local traditional watchmaking methods. Sometime in the 1880's, Achille...

ILLINOIS Watch Co. The Illinois Watch Company was one of the premier American watch manufactures. It was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bun, and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob...

ILLINOIS Watch Co.   The Illinois Watch Company was one of the premier American watch manufactures. It was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bun, and various additional financiers. Twenty years later,...

SINDACO Sindaco S.A. Watch Factory, also known as Sindaco SwissLine, was a watch manufacturer founded in Muralto (distric of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino) , Switzerland around the 1930's. Sindaco was a watch factory where they finished movements and...

CIVIC WATCH Co. Rumors say that Civic Watch Co. was used by Omega Watch Co., New York on some of their less expensive watches which were exported to the U.S.A. from WWI to the 1920's. Also, another story says that...

WASHINGTON Watch Co. Made by Illinois Watch Co., in Springfield, Illinois; the Washington Watch Co. was a "fictitious company", a private label brand that Illinois placed on some of its watches. Most of these watches were manufactured for Montgomery Ward...

ELGIN Diamonds & Rubies Dial Wristwatch This is an UNIQUE and STUNNING timepiece, an art deco vintage Elgin wristwatch, the movement serial number indicates that it is dated from 1920. It is a manual-winding watch caliber grade 431, 7 jewels...

PULSAR P2 AstronautLED WristwatchHitting the scene in 1973, as the more reliable predecessor to the limited production, yet WILDLY sought after Pulsar P1, the P2 found IMMEDIATE success. Initially it was made available in two different submodels - The Astronaut...

ENDURA From wiki/Endura: "Endura SA is Swiss watch manufacturer founded in 1966 by General Watch Company (GWC) in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, for the purpose of manufacturing watches under 'private label'. This company was also part of the merger between ASUAG and...

PLAYBOY Quartz AccuracyDate IndicatorWristwatchA very UNIQUE timepiece, an original PLAYBOY wristwatch. It is a battery (quartz) wristwatch with date indicator, caliber Miyota 1 jewel movement, central second hand, Japan made. Nice black dial dial with hour mark applied, minute marks...

NEW HAVEN WATCH Co. With a capital of $100,000 by W. E. Doolittle, the New Haven Watch Co. is incorporated in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1884, a building is rented and the manufacturing operations began. By 1885-86, the company moved...

HAMPDEN Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. an American watch manufacturer located in Springfield, Massachusetts and Canton, Ohio, manufactured timepieces from approximately 1877 to 1927. In 1866, Donald J. Mozart founded the Mozart Watch Company in Providence, Rhode Island, to manufacture...

LANCET - Langendorf Watch Company S.A.  Langendorf Watch Company was a watchmaker located in Langendorf, Switzerland. The company was founded by Colonel Johann Viktor Kottmann, first as Uhrenfabrik Langendorf S.A. in 1873 to produce ebauches -part of movements for watches-...

ILLINOIS Watch Co. The Illinois Watch Company was one of the premier American watch manufactures. It was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bun, and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob...

CYMA The harshness of the climate in the high valleys of the Jura gave rise to watchmaking activity during the long winters of isolation. "During the 18th century, the efforts of the region’s industrious and ingenious inhabitants gradually led to...

VOSTOK Watch Makers, Inc. -In Russian: Boctok- In the early 1940's, one of the Moscow watch making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol and this is how the Vostok Watch Makers, Inc. was born in...

CLINTON Watch Co. To talk about Clinton Watch Co., we should start talking about the Wein family, a Russian family, formally Weinzieher. They emigrated to the US. "Hersh Wein had a large family that would diverge and go on to...

DUEBER - HAMPDEN Watch Co.   In 1866, Donald J. Mozart founded the Mozart Watch Company in Providence, Rhode Island, to manufacture timepieces. The company failed very soon and in 1867 Donald has to reorganize the firm as the New...

BOREL FILS ET Cie. In 1856, the watchmaker Jules Borel -with the belief to produce excellent watches and create his own brand- established the watch company "Borel Fils & Cie." in Neuchatel, Switzerland. "Jules Borel was determined to turn the...