Update - Make me an offer on these. I want them to go to a happy collector and the ‘Bay is sucking recently.

I’ve decided to move out some pieces that I haven’t worn in a while, much to your own personal benefit. All of these watches are working perfectly but they are a bit aged. If you want some classic chronos for not much money, click on through. Click all the images to see them full size.

I consider all of these watches my training wheels. They are great fun and a good deal. I used most of them as part of my To Better Know a Movement piece last year.

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Our buddy Watchismo is selling these wild pieces on his online store. LIP is a 150-year-old French watch company that launched a series of Mach 2000 watches back in the boogie nights of 1973. The odd styling and off-center face speak of a simpler time when men were men and watchmakers were on acid.

This retooled Mach 2000, called the Dark Master, uses a Swiss ETA quartz movement and includes a rubber strap. It is water resistant and features jolly candy buttons and sexy little yellow hands. Check out the shop for even more models including the Revival, a LED watch, and the crazy jump hour by Prisca Briquet. Yeah, I don’t know who that is either. The Mach 2000s are $520 and the rest are about $300.

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I’ll be featuring another of our advertisers, MidwestWatches.com, in a little while but I wanted to point out, to all the coin collectors out there, that a new eBay shop just signed up with us. They sell ancient coins for fun and/or profit, so maybe you can surprise grampy with a Roman-era coin, perhaps the very kind used to buy his freedom from the salt mines in ancient Caledonia.

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This is not an automatic watch, but it’s a pretty cheap and pretty nice-looking Invicta. I don’t like Invicta, personally, but that shouldn’t stop you from ponying up $89 for a pretty classy-looking watch.

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Just got this from the Swatch Group folks (Omega, Longines, Rado, a few other beautiful brands)

Our Friends & Family sale will be held on Thursday, November 15 (9am -
8pm) and Friday, November 16 (8am - 7pm)

It will be at the same place as last year.

The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St.
NY

Thanks for your interest.

Expect great deals and long lines, friends.

Here’s a great NOS Gruen redone by Dennis Brooker, a custom watchmaker.

I just put one of my custom dials in my 1st mechanical watch - A NOS Gruen I got off of Ebay with an ETA 2824-2 - I used a reallllly nice piece of Awabi shell.

Quite striking, non?

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Great thread over at WuS about sub-$500 chronos. I second the notion that the Swiss Army chronos are killer and very inexpensive. Hamilton should be down in the $500 range as well.

There are some Swiss Army 9G 600 Chronograph going on ebay now for $450, they have the valjoux 7750 movement. You don’t often see that caliber movement at that low price. There is a massive thread in the affordable forum here talking about them.

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From my collection: a quartz Glycine Airman GMT 2000 circa 1980. Perfect condition. Nice lume. Rarely worn. $200 or trade. Email me at john at wristwatchreview dot com.

Please consider picking this up. I’d prefer one of you guys to have it than sell it on eBay.

SOLD!

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Oyez Oyez! All hands to the Swatch Group Sample sale next week. If you are out of town, move to New York because you won’t get deals like this anywhere else. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

SAMPLE SALE: SWISS WATCHES

50% to 70% off Top Brands, December 8, 9

Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18th Street @ 6th Ave.

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Did your sig other ask for a Calvin Klein watch for Christmas? Slap them and head over to Watchismo where there are some amazing bargains to be had in classic timepieces. I’m loving this Exactima chrono, for example, and it’s only $325. Go for it, people.

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