(Luckily?) missed the auction yesterday, since I had to attend a meeting.

True, wearing gold watches has nothing to do with age, but so far I've only owned steel watches.

Talking about gold watches - I'm currently observing a goldplated vintage Tissot Seastar Chronograph on the bay ( I love those vintage PR 516 / Seastar chronos with the Lemania movements), but seller is reluctant to ship to Switzerland....

Anyone to assist? Would gladly help in return.

HAGW!

Cheers,

Marco

: As Oliver points out, this is a 2448 D with 20 micron 16K gold
: plate, rather than the much rarer and more valuable 18K gold
: 2456.

: A number of these have cropped up in Australia over the last six
: months or so and I'm not really sure what to make of it. I seem
: to recall one of the sellers saying they had two of these, and
: the photos in this lot do seem to show two different movements
: (look at the L in Heuer-Leonidas; in the first two shots, there
: seems to be a mark below it, in the latter two it's stamped
: cleanly). I don't know whether a watch isn't selling and is
: being relisted, or is bouncing between a few sellers, but
: whichever it is I'm a little wary of these now, however much I
: like the watch.

: As to wearing a gold watch, I don't think age has much to do with
: it - worn with the right clothes and on the right occasion, I
: think anyone could carry off a gold watch. Gianvittorio is
: certainly showing the right way to do it!