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Flea market treasures

watchopsia — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:24:57 +0000

Dear watchfam, have you ever been on a flea market? If you haven’t I will try to describe it. Let’s imagine you are surrounded by vintage cameras, vinyls, paintings, other authentic stuff and to be honest there are many things I do not know how to call but looks cool. Once I saw a suit of armour. It’s cool, isn’t it?

I was on a flea market and there was a table full of watches, all for about 3 bucks. Most of them were poorly made but I dive into that mass and found a cool gold plated Citizen Quartz. It was ticking, change date perfectly. I was so satisfied and walked away but my former girlfriend noticed a bit dusty, but good looking vintage timepiece. It was a swiss made Bourbon watch. I have never heard about that brand before. I will do the research and write about it later. I forget to mention is was about 5 bucks. To sum it up, I bought 2 vintage watches less than a price of an F91W. That’s how a good flea market story should end.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIIe6geLc0L/?igshid=1930o4g03vhtf
https://www.instagram.com/p/CECAX5WHPDy/?igshid=280xmqk9fn2u

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A brief story of my Poljot alarm watch

watchopsia — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:11:09 +0000

I would like to share with you a brief story of my Poljot alarm watch. Few years ago I fell in love with watches. I love the designs of them, hovewer I do not care about movements, materials, history or even brands. In 2018 a workmate of my father want to sell his Poljot watch. It was dirt cheap and I can’t miss this opportunity to buy my first vintage watch with a complication I have never seen before. This little 35mm Poljot watch with an alarm function is from the First Moscow Watch Factory. And its movement 2612.1 is beating since 1960s. There are two crowns on it; the crown at 4 is a normal crown to wind it or set the time. The crown at 2 is to wind the alarm and set when you want to wake up. It has a gold plated case, a plexi glass (which is restaurated with the help of Polywatch) and a patinated dial. Absolutely not a NOS piece, it has its own story. It was a gateway drog for me into the world of real watches. My collection had grown with a vintage, russian watch from the Soviet era when small gold watches were the trend.

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Young brands, as everyday watches

HegeGO5 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:40:10 +0000

Hi everyone!

Recently I became a big fan of brave, young brands, they really bring some interesting stuff in to the watch game... and I think they can even do a better job as everyday watches or conversation starters, than many big brands.

what are your thoughts about brands like, Baltic, Lorien, Lundis Bleus, Ming, Fahrer or Unimatic?

Or comment any other brands that maybe I should check!

My first watch

Mikikoppan — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:59:57 +0000

I’m in love with watches since I was 4! I’ve got my first watch when I was in kindergarten. It was a digital Timex watch, I still have it!