Vintage Watches

Collecting insight from James Lamdin, Hamilton Powell and Eric Wind.

These rare and collectible Rolex and Omega timepieces offer ties to iconic Hollywood figures.

Serial numbers can be used to find historical and pricing information on your watch, but where are they located?

Our list of the 50 greatest watches will be released day by day this week, 10 at a time.

The Vintage Rolex Field Manual: Chevalier Edition is required reading for any serious Rolex enthusiast.

Nivada, which floundered during the Quartz Crisis, is being resurrected, along with its vintage Chronomaster and Antarctic watches.

Polishing your watch can decrease its value.

Phillips is holding its next Geneva Watch Auction from June 27th through 28th, and it’s got everything from Longines to Patek to Rolex and more.

Tissot’s Antimagnétique might not have the cachet of a Rolex or an Omega, but it was the first truly anti-magnetic wristwatch.

The popularity of vintage watches has led to the reestablishment of once-defunct companies in Switzerland, Austria, France and elsewhere.

Get into the vintage watch game with one of these five funky timepieces from the 1960s and ’70s.

If you’re stuck with a watch you don’t wear, trading it for something you love may be the ticket.

The Angelus Chronodato is the progenitor of the triple-calendar chronograph, a classic watch style originating in the mid-20th century.

The Zodiac Sea Wolf is the forgotten dive watch that, in 1953, introduced the world’s most popular watch genre along with luminaries Rolex and Blancpain.

Getting a start in vintage watches doesn’t have to mean shelling out serious cash.

This week we’ve got an incredible value in vintage dive watches, a Rolex Explorer II with stunning patina, and a colorful Tissot chronograph.

Getting duped — or at least taking a low-risk gamble — is part of the fun of becoming a collector.

This week we’ve got an iconic Hamilton, a stylish, affordable diver and a watch a particularly badass name on the dial.

Geoff Hess, a consultant for Phillips auction house and a vintage watch expert, breaks down why placing a bid may be the best path to your dream watch.

The Bulova Accutron Spaceview, replete with incredible accuracy and a space-age look, represented a technological milestone that foreshadowed quartz watches.