How best to go about finding a "birth watch"

[Disco You]

I've decided that for my 21st birthday I'm going to buy myself a watch which was made (or, more accurately I suspect, first sold).

Now being born in 1990 I'm doing this far too far in advance, but I'd still like to start looking, and to do that I have to have an idea where to look to buy one, and also where to look for watches that were about back then (I know that 1990 isn't too long ago for some of you coffin-dodgers ) to see what from that time I like.

I have a Seamaster GMT which takes it's daily beating and comes back begging for more, so I'd like to have a more dressy watch for wearing with a lounge suit/ dinner jacket.

So can anyone offer any comments/ thoughts/ suggestions for dress watches which were around "back then" preferably an automatic and not a manual (it'll probably live on a winder when I'm not wearing it) definitely not a quartz. Also where to find old catalogues/ archives.

And finally the budget will be around £1500 or so, as always with watches, give or take a few

[andy_s]

Stowa was created in 1990, try and track down one of the first and you'd have a nice dress watch, something of horological interest and something that's of good quality.
The hard part, or fun part - depending on POV, is further investigation & actually finding one...

(To clarify - Jorg Shauer took over and re-launched Stowa in 1990)

Edited by andy_s on Tuesday 1st June 21:53

[LukeBird]

Have a look here; similar thread started a few weeks back.