Help identify this watch!
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This watch has been for sale for 4 years allegedly, when I emailed the guy, he said they turn stock so quickly they don't have a chance to update the website!
I love the watch in the "advert" below, but have been unable to find it with the info given. I have never seen another. Can anyone help to identify/locate another?
http://www.vintage-watches-collection.com/watch/lo...
I love the watch in the "advert" below, but have been unable to find it with the info given. I have never seen another. Can anyone help to identify/locate another?
http://www.vintage-watches-collection.com/watch/lo...
They put the 990 is all sorts of things - that "ad" is a little hyperbolic, at the very least.
http://www.oocities.org/thomasm178/watch/features/...
30 secs on Google doesn't throw up another one of the same model from the ad, although there's no shortage of 990 auto watches. I did find this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Longines-Myster...
which I think is rather nicer, albeit older, manual and cheaper, but YMMV.
http://www.oocities.org/thomasm178/watch/features/...
30 secs on Google doesn't throw up another one of the same model from the ad, although there's no shortage of 990 auto watches. I did find this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Longines-Myster...
which I think is rather nicer, albeit older, manual and cheaper, but YMMV.
Whoever wrote that advert was being paid by the word!
As above, I can't find an exact match, but keeping an eye out for Longines 990 watches will have something turn up. They're slim movements, and won't appear in many bulky watches.
There's also the Longines La Grand Classique range which are seriously slim. They're also almost all quartz, but the watch in the original is gold plated, so hardly the investment grade watch the advert would have you believe.
As above, I can't find an exact match, but keeping an eye out for Longines 990 watches will have something turn up. They're slim movements, and won't appear in many bulky watches.
There's also the Longines La Grand Classique range which are seriously slim. They're also almost all quartz, but the watch in the original is gold plated, so hardly the investment grade watch the advert would have you believe.
Too busy to take the advert down, yet they managed to find time to write that garrulous guff!
The style is decidedly 1980's dress watch, but I'm not sure that I'd agree with the advert about the dial.
The photo's aren't of high enough resolution for me to be certain, but based on what's shown, I'd say that it may well be a redial.
In the headline picture, take a look at the quality of the gold printing around the numerals II, IIII and the date, basically the only bit of any of the pictures that is sharp enough and large enough to form an opinion. See how the edges of the gold print are not sharply defined? The surface of the gold print appears uneven and had a black fleck.
Could be why you're struggling to find another.
The style is decidedly 1980's dress watch, but I'm not sure that I'd agree with the advert about the dial.
The photo's aren't of high enough resolution for me to be certain, but based on what's shown, I'd say that it may well be a redial.
In the headline picture, take a look at the quality of the gold printing around the numerals II, IIII and the date, basically the only bit of any of the pictures that is sharp enough and large enough to form an opinion. See how the edges of the gold print are not sharply defined? The surface of the gold print appears uneven and had a black fleck.
Could be why you're struggling to find another.
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