资料备份

http://www.awco.org/mwco/

http://www.awco.org/mwco/Presentation/McIntyrePresentation.htm

http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.p ... ept-the-Swiss-lever

http://awco.org/AWCo/interesting.htm

http://awco.org/Collections.htm

http://www.abellwatchmakers.com/

http://www.abellwatchmakers.com/Howard.htm

xhandy 发表于 2012-11-7 00:17
辛苦了！

翁版，这款机心的来头能给我说说么？

My collection has the theme of portable precsion time keeping. I don't buy watches made before they were good time keepers and not much after quartz came alson although I have a few precision quartz watches.

In American Watches this includes railroads becuase of the the contribution these made to precision time keeping. It includes chronometers, US and English as well as torpedo boat watches by US, Swiss and English and Russuan makers.


I also like a good looking watch. To me signs of honorable service are a plus. I have an 18 size Bunn Special with colored gouges in its dial. They were probably stops on the train the original owner ran.

An occasional hairline ion the dial is not an issue but botchwork on the movement is a disqualifier. I make my buy decision based on the movement so what I want from a case is security.

On my high end Swiss and English pieces, I almost always get them with original cases which is usually easy to do since the serial number often match and the sizes generally were non standard. I don't pay a premium for originality and I'll consider an outstanding movement in a bad case but it has to be a really great movement.


I also collect high grade pendant watches, again those with wonderful movements. I stay away from ornate cases but most are very nicely decorated 18k gold. Usually, a really killer case has a mediocre movement. Not a lot of gold inthese which kept a lot from beign melted and I can get a lot of watch and not tie up my funds in metal.

I like American Swiss and English in this category and love my "ladies" even if they are not quite so precision, although I have many that were made to astounding precision.

I will sometimes take a flyer on something that catches my eye and do research.

I also track down owners and provenance, so personalizations and other engraving add to the fun.

Generally, very fine watches belonged to interesting people and I have "met" a lot of interesting dead people that way.

A lot of people are bored by the technology but get interested in the history. I like watches that lead me on a path to discovery.

占位

http://www.blackbough.co.uk/hell ... es/tag/ultra-chron/
http://ambwatches.com/2013/08/13 ... -chron-caliber-431/
http://watchguy.co.uk/service-longines-ultra-chron-calibre-431/
http://watchguy.co.uk/service-longines-ultra-chron-calibre-431-2/