Wonder why the Gentleman who owned them didn't betroth them to his Family and friends separately 🤔 Either he didn't really have any as such, or his Family thought they were a load of old junk. More fool them!!! 😂
I have my husbands omega he bought in the 1950s. I had it checked and the jeweler said it had one of the prettiest movements he had seen. It’s special to me. My son will have it.
So it means he was at least 20 in the 1950s and so were you? So A) now you should be in your 90s and your son should be in his 60s-70s, so give him the watch untill he's still alive and B) you're gold digger who just gave herself in
I'm a watchmaker and specialise in Seiko's. That 6139 Pogue's a really nice example. Australian market with the black rotating inner bezel. The USA and European markets had a yellow inner bezel not black. That model, especially the yellow dial versions have gone up in value a fair bit over the past two years. Being on the president bracelet too is another nice feature as that was a upgrade from the standard Seiko bracelet. Be lucky.
or a head mounted camera! also...you might want to suggest other uses for items...your watches might have gears n things for "steam punk" collectors. parts of old cameras...vintage clothing (i think i heard you say you had folk who "do" clothes). some clothes can be re-made into something else. old typewriter keys. rhinestones are pretty collectable, too. your videos are fun. thanks! comfort
Kosher Bacon also might want to check the mirror andsee if the dent from eearungyour baseball cap backwards has smoothed back out before you go on camera. Looks kinda doofy.
nice find ! 350$ for the 3 omega, 1 longine, 1 oris, 3 gruen and some funky seiko and junghans, that's a lot of watches for the money ! As a watch enthusiasts or collector, I'd be mad at my children if they sold that.
I collect vintage watches, so while I enjoy all of your videos I obviously loved this one. I did cringe when I saw all those thrown in a bag clanking against each other, but I sure wish I could have found them. I hope you will try and save as many of those as you can. Congrats
"Hey Bro, what are these round things with numbers all around them?"....."I dunno, just throw them in a bag and we'll get rid of them like the rest of this crap Dad left us"
Um most of the time yes. A higher end watch will use more. Lower end watches use less. You can check any of the vintage models from least to highest and look at how many jewels the movements have.
@@stektirade, beyond a certain point they are adding jewels to points where they are not needed just to run up the jewel count. A high number of jewels does not automatically mean high quality.
they are just really small (because the style back then was to have smaller watches). I've handled one from the same era as ones in the video and it looks like a childs watch on my smallish hands
@@Cosmystery I agree, they made small watches for that era. Lucky me in this case 😎 I have a small wrist. I can still wear a 34 mm such a date or an air king without it looking like a kids watch. Also love to restore vintage watches.
That's a great find ! Back in the day I would pick up old pocket watches and fix them myself and the one's I couldn't I'd part them out . But now my eyes aren't so good anymore but I still have 30 or so of my favorite ones hanging up on the bedroom wall and every once in awhile I'll wind them up just to hear them tick .
Amazing. I restore quite a few watches and service them. However it's a good idea not to wind them as the lubrication could be contaminated or dried. also it's a good idea not to bump them harshly before servicing because even with the shock jewels the hardened or contaminated lubricants can still damage the balance staff pivots. Winding watches with contaminated or hardened lubricants can catch from gear to hear in the geartrain causing shearing especially in the winding gear. Even if you plan to wear one,. It may work for a while, then bam! Suddenly it can quit on you( if it hasn't been serviced). Especially if they have chronograph modules. Because one doesn't know whether the former owner used the chronograph much or just used the time aspects of the watch. Chronograph watches are very pricy to fix. Shortcut jobs don't cut it. Many watch repair techs around the city just use solvent without taking the movement apart especially chronograph watches ( if there are plastic parts some Seikos, solvents will soften the plastic). A true watch repairman. Disassembles the complete movement and cleans the parts thoroughly in a watch parts washer except for dials, plastic parts and certain watch hands ( I use rodico 6033)
Well said!!! 👏👏👏 Also winding with just the top of one's thumb 😳😱. My pet hate is seeing someone winding a time-piece whilst still on their wrist! Naughty naughty a complete no no... 🙄 Oh the the sacrilege!
Those 3 Omegas are worth $1000 easily, even as is. Properly serviced, with new crystals and crowns, and you could sell the white-faced ones for $4-500 each, and the black dial for even more. The Junghans military watch is also worth a few hundred. Nice grab!
That Seiko is a "Pogue", same model worn in '73 by Col. Pogue while the other crew members wore Omega Speedmasters. Have it serviced, get a nice NATO strap for it and keep it.
Awesome! I don't get why people are so annoyed by the fact he didn't know all the brands and conclude that he doesn't appreciate some of the watches enough. And some even saying it's a shame he was the one that found the watches?! He's just going through them for the first time. People don't have to know everything in order to appreciate it. And it's still someone's find if the person doesn't have certain knowledge but knows it might be worth something. Surely he knows enough and appreciates them all and will do his research and let them be repaired and valued properly before selling.
If I may... as a Hobbyist Watchmaker I remain appalled at the little effort that is made to care for these pieces of our history. I have long since lost patience with collectors who reduce everything to dollars and cent. For instance that Miltary Navigation Hamilton in the box on a gimbel is from an era well before GPS and requiring accurate time to make sense of the information a sexton produced from the heavens. The Hamilton 992b, carried by bomber navigators are likewise of considerable historic value. Similarly the timers often used by gunnery observers to determine distance from observing the muzzle flash are collectable. OTOH this is not the first time that I have heard someone make much of a suspected gold case while entirely ignoring the movement. Any number of my Hamiltons, Illinois and Walthams are without cases often owing to the scrap value of the case. Just sayin.....
What a haul! Some pretty fabulous finds. A Pogue, 3 Omegas, Hamilton, Junghans, that lovely chronograph and all those other vintage pieces! Really curious what you value the entire lot at.
Wow not bad at all !! Ruff guess you could turn the $350 into $3,000 give or take! I would be happy with that batch for sure ! Few good pieces for a personal collection aswell. Thanks for sharing!
Personally, for me what makes these kind of videos worth watching is seeing a value put on each item/watch. Even a if only a range. Otherwise novices like myself are lost.
What a score! I would have loved to see you take them to an expert to get an appraisal of what they are worth as-is, as well as what the higher-end ones would be worth restored. Thanks for sharing!
That hamilton, longines and Junghans is where its at. The omega has slight more value then those (not much more) but I think those 3 are more intriguing
I was thinking the same thing. He doesn't know the brands so he is passing them over. I wish a watch guy had found this instead of a general retailer. It would have made for a better video.
@@thomasflynn5366 I loved the junghans, they are a brand that are still going that I think deserve more appreciation. The Longines and Hamilton were also good watches that should have gone in the quality pile
Not to mention the American Made vintage Hamiltons, the Gruens, an mid-century Junghans, and that Seiko is a collectible model as it is a model that holds the crown as the first automatic chronograph in space.
Hopefully you will break even with those, they are very rough. By the time you have a horologist strip and restore one of those Omegas for about 2 to 3 hundred bucks, you can sell it for about...2 to 3 hundred bucks. Good luck with that!
The Seiko is cerca 1970 I was given one for my 21st birthday it cost £50:00 around £800:00 in today's money. I now have many watches from Rolex to a Speedmaster Moon watch but I have never had a watch that drew so much comment as my Seiko Pepsi chronometer apart from its yellow face I set the day date to read in French which was considered really cool in the late sixties. I remember being called into the bosses office at work, I was told he wanted to see me I was wondering what I had done wrong but he wanted a closer look at the watch I was wearing the Seiko.and this was a guy who drove a Rolls Royce! Even when I started as a sales rep for Gillette in around 1974 it was still drawing interest and being commented upon. I still have it although it no longer works.
Take it to a seiko certified jeweler and get it restored, it has a lot of value, both in money and especially in your life. Fix it back up and wear it again.
I'm not gonna sub nor like until you get a tripod or something so you have a steady cam and both hands free. Don't try to be a pro and an amateur at the same time, it is not impressive.
Some nice watches there. Don’t discount that Seiko as it’s referred to as a Pogue . Chronograph. Worth quite a bit. Very easy to date a Seiko accurately too , if you don’t know how to do this then look at a site called watchsluth as it has a page where you input all the reference on the back and it spits out the date for you. The omega on the bracelet is nice, those are sometimes called beads of rice bracelets that can be worth more than the watch ! A bag like that for me is the stuff of dreams for me as I would want to repair most of them.
At one point, the high charge on watches over 17 jewels imported into the US resulted in watch makers reducing the jewel count on their movements destined for the US. Do not discount those movements as having no or lesser value out of hand without research. Nice haul for such a low cost. I'd estimate that you have made several thousand in profit from that batch assuming no major repairs are necessary to the working pieces.
The Wyler Incaflex is probably worth something too. Paul Wyler patented the Incaflex balance wheel in 1927, and the Wyler Watch Co. merged with Italian Vetta in 1932. The watch face only says "Wyler INCAFLEX" and not "Wyler Vetta INCAFLEX" so I'm guessing the watch was manufactured before the merger?
That Seiko Pogue is awesome, that will probably sell for the most. It is a highly collected watch. You did amazing with that bag, three Omegas, a couple Hamiltons, and the Oris. How much did you spend on the bag?
A thing about the number of jewels in watch calibers: while you’re not completely wrong, you’re also completely right. The number of jewels in a watch doesn’t actually tell you anything about the quality, just the number of jewels inside. Like you said, the jewels are used as bearings for the pivots of the wheels inside the caliber (amongst other things). But watch manufacturers realized that “jewels” sounded fancy so they started to add useless jewels to the caliber just to crank up the number of jewels inside! (The “jewels” aren’t actually jewels by the way. Watchmakers have been using “synthetic ruby’s” since their cheaper and more durable)
$4500 - $5000 would be a fairly conservative evaluation of the bag contents. I'm calling fake on this video though. Guy just seems a bit unexcited about making over $4500 on a random bag of watches. The watches certainly never came from 1 source.
Awesome picks and intriguing video. Thank you. I should mention how it would have been nicer to have read the names of all the watches (like the Jungians? you skipped over) and to know the ballpark of what you paid, confirming how great a score it was.
I cringed when he called the Junghans a "pretty little watch" Also the Seiko Pouge is a very nice watch to find in your collection. Very prominent in the race for the first automatic chronograph. Didn't win the race but that piece has been to outer space.
Great finds. How about the link to polishing tatty crystals? I’ve been following since about the time you publicized helping Adam. I’ve got lots of videos waiting to enjoy.
Love the Seamasters. They're more expensive for a reason. I owned a 1967 Seamaster and the original movement was just as accurate as my new $2,000 Swiss automatic watch.
@@CuriosityIncorporated Be sure the keep the chrono running all the time. The chrono clutch can wear out if stopped and its an EXTREMELY hard to find piece. A bad one pratcily renders the watch as parts only.
The Seiko 6139 is probably the best one of the lot. It's not a true Pogue as a true Pogue will have a gold rotating ring on the inside, the black rotating ring has often only been found in Australia. We have a ton of them pop up over here. The dial and hand set on that one look amazing though, so someone will definitely grab that for restoration. A true Pogue will not have "Chronograph" on the dial, and will have "Water70mResist" on the left hand side as well. Still though, great watch. Very collectable.
READY AIM it would depend on what the year, model, etc. is but most vintage omegas run in the $500 range. Some of the higher end, rarer watches can go into the $1-5k range but those are pretty rare. I’ve attached is a link where you can see what a lot of vintage omegas and whatnot tend to go for, maybe even find your model and compare condition, price, and all of that! www.reddit.com/r/Watchexchange/comments/9s4mqr/wts_kabatime_xxl_130_vintages_omega_rolex_tudor/
The Junghans everybody noticed isn't going to be worth much, even working, cleaned, with new crystal and with the hands re-lumed. The dial is attractive, but it could easily cost more to restore this well-worn piece than it could ever be sold for. It looks like a J98/3 from the early 1950s.
There is absolutely zero risk to using a radium dial the only risk was the people who made them. A microscopic amount of paint behind a crystal that's been aged for 50 years is not going to hurt you even if it was made of cyanide, but the people who applied those everyday multiple times a day or at risk that's why they producing the
@@timothyacowin9761 No harm being cautious bro. Though it makes feel a little better that it's not that dangerous since I also have watches with radium dials.
