1940s

MIDO  Mido – from Spanish “Yo mido” which translates “I measure.”  Mido is a Swiss luxury watch company with a rich history dating back to 1918. The brand was founded by an ingenious Swiss watchmaker George G. Schaeren in Biel/Bienne,...

"Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Watch Company, made over 40 million watches, clocks and other precision implements between the years of 1850 and 1957."WALTHAM17 Jewels4 ADJ'sWristwatch Possibly a "Waltham Premier", this timepiece is a beautiful U.S.A. made...

HERLIS Military Style Waterproof Watch  A cool vintage timepiece! This is a vintage Herlis military style wristwatch and dated from the 1940s.  It is a manual watch powered by a mechanical movement caliber 26SC, 17 jewels, sweep-second, anti-magnetic, waterproof, shockproof...

1940s DEFENDER17 Jewels Manual WristwatchThis a rare timepiece, double signed by Defender Watch Co., it is a vintage Defender mechanical wristwatch dated from the 1940s.  It is a manual-wind watch with Defender Watch Co. movement, caliber 005, 17 jewels, sub-second,...

GIRARD-PERREGAUX & Co."Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture since Jean-Francois signed his first watch in 1791." Girard-Perregaux is best known for constant innovation, exceedingly high design standards, and superior precision engineering. GIRARD-PERREGAUX 17 Jewels Wristwatch "Observe the FACE, the...

GIRARD-PERREGAUX & Co."Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture since Jean-Francois signed his first watch in 1791." Girard-Perregaux is best known for constant innovation, exceedingly high design standards, and superior precision engineering. GIRARD-PERREGAUX 1791 17 Jewels - Cal. GP911940s Wristwatch...

MOVADO - "Always in Motion" Tracing its origins to La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland when in 1881, Achilles Ditesheim, a 19-year-old entrepreneur, hired six watchmakers and opened a small workshop in the village of La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1905, Ditesheim renamed his young company...

PAUL BREGUETTPaul Breguette was a well-known jewelry and watch retailer, formerly based in Pennsylvania. Leon Dunleavy, a past employee of Kay Jewelers, stated that the company purchased the name “Paul Breguette” in Switzerland in 1938.  The company was owned by...

ELGIN WATCH Co. "Elgin was founded in 1864, right as the civil war was coming to an end. The first watch Elgin made, an 18 sized B W Raymond railroad grade watch, was finished in 1867 and over the next...

Eterna W. Co. – “BUILT ON TRADITION, DRIVEN BY INNOVATION, INSPIRED BY EMOTIONS”Since 1856, Eterna is synonymous with timepieces of the highest quality, with Swiss watchmaking tradition, and with an outstanding spirit of innovation. Since the beginning and even until...

CYMA Watch Co.Cyma was a Swiss watch company that was founded in 1862, and the company produced a wide range of watches with different movements and designs. Cyma Tavannes is a former Swiss watchmaking company that was created when two separate...

GIRARD-PERREGAUX & Co."Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture since Jean-Francois signed his first watch in 1791."GIRARD-PERREGAUX Cal. 86 AE 17 Jewels Vintage Wristwatch Girard-Perregaux, a timeless tradition of innovation. – Girard-Perregaux is best known for constant innovation, exceedingly high...

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...

CORTEBERT – A watch brand with a legacy in cutting edge watchmaking.  Cortebert was a Swiss watchmaking company that was established in 1790 in the town of Courtelary, located in the Swiss Jura Mountains. Known for its high-quality timepieces, Cortebert...

Ancre is French word that translates to "anchor" in English, it refers to a mechanical detail about the watch movement, that it is equipped with a lever escapement.  Ancre is also a trademark registered in 1898 by Picard Frere -...

Eterna W. Co. – “BUILT ON TRADITION, DRIVEN BY INNOVATION, INSPIRED BY EMOTIONS”  Since 1856, Eterna is synonymous with timepieces of the highest quality, with Swiss watchmaking tradition, and with an outstanding spirit of innovation. Since the beginning and even...

Eterna W. Co. – “BUILT ON TRADITION, DRIVEN BY INNOVATION, INSPIRED BY EMOTIONS”  Since 1856, Eterna is synonymous with timepieces of the highest quality, with Swiss watchmaking tradition, and with an outstanding spirit of innovation. Since the beginning and even...

NICE WATCH Military Style Mechanical WatchSuper RARE & UNIQUE timepiece! This is a vintage military style 34.5mm wristwatch dated from the 1940s and signed “Nice Watch” on the dial. It is a manual wind watch powered by a 15-jewel movement caliber...

FORTIS – Founded in 1912 by Walter Vogt in the city of Grenchen, Switzerland. Fortis is a Swiss watch company that is known for its high-quality mechanical watches, especially its aviation and diving watches. Fortis has a rich history in...

VALJOUX Valjoux is a Swiss watch movement manufacturer very well known primarily for the chronograph and complication timepiece movements that are used in several mid- to high range of mechanical watches. Valjoux company is part of ETA and a member...

Longines 17 JewelsSwiss Caliber 10.68Z  This is a very beautiful vintage Longines wristwatch that we believe to be from 1946.  It comes with its original Longines presentation box.This is a manual winding watch with Swiss caliber 10.68Z/10L, with 17 jewels, and...

Hamilton17 JewelsU.S.A. Caliber Grade 747  In 1948 Hamilton introduced the first of several new watch models in the CLD line.  CLD phonetically spells out ‘sealed’ and the CLD models featured a series of gaskets that brought environmental protection of a...

Military17 JewelsSwissThis is a very unique vintage Universal Geneve military WWII wristwatch, issue 20514 and dated from the 1940's. It is a manual wind watch with a caliber Universal 267, 17 jewels movement, unadjusted, sweep second, Swiss made.For military use, this...

GRUEN Watch Company One of the most important and prestigious American watch manufacturers. Gruen watch company was a watch manufacturer founded in 1894 as "D. Gruen & Son" by a brilliant German horologists, Dietrich Gruen and his eldest son Frederick...