New pickup - 1950s vintage chrono

[blowfish89]

Found a nice vintage manual wind Continental chrono locally, and bought it. The case is 38mm, so wears larger than typical 34-36mm vintage watches. It has a Venus 188 movement, watch has both Swiss (for ebauche) and France (place of assembly) markings and has been freshly serviced, so works well. Estimated age is mid to late 1950s or early 1960s. Dial is excellent and radium does not glow anymore, but hands have been repainted (with luminova I think). I like the classic look, and did not have a chronograph, so this fits in well.







Have four vintage watches now - Top to bottom - 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s


Also saw some other nice watches at the shop.




Speedy 1973

Longines (30CH? possibly military?)

1940s cal. 83 IWC is a re-dial. Vintage Doxa seems original.

Wakmann (gone), Zodiac (gone), jumbo Heuer (still hanging in there)

Movado with Zenith from my last visit (gone by now)

[River Rat]

Nice chronograph I just added another chrono to my collection also. Were this shop at ?

[toxicavenger]

WOW great pickup!

[Seppia]

Niiiiiiice

[james80]

Nice pick up, the size is great, there can't be many 38mm from the late fifties.

[rockmastermike]

Fantastic! I love it and at 38mm is icing on the cake!
Dibs

[marchone]

Super find.

[blowfish89]

Thanks all

Nice chronograph I just added another chrono to my collection also. Were this shop at ?

The shop is in Pasadena, local to me.

[dukerules]

Very cool pickup.

[T. Wong]

Excellent find! Looks like new for a 50s watch. Congrats!

[john wilson]

Very handsome!

[sfglenrock]

Awesome vintage collection! It's tough to find 38mm vintage. That Continental is beautiful!

[ba1970]

Wow. It's in incredible condition.

[Nomadz]

That is awesome !!!

[sfglenrock]

Wow...excellent pickup! Love that dial and perfect size. Congrats!

[hobbit712]

Wow thats nice!

[DON]

Nice watch - looks very clean

DON

[jeckyll]

Very cool, lots of great vintage. Finding a Chrono at 38mm is a total bonus.

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[mkell10]

Wow great selections. Where did you purchase these?

[deepcdvr]

Winner!

I could spend some time in that shop

[diver]

beautiful chrono.
love vintage and trying to find them at 37-38mm to fit modern trend,

[morningtundra]

Do you know who serviced this? I'm looking for an indi, vintage watchmaker willing to work on Venus, Landeron and Valjoux chronos


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[Steve O.]

Do you know who serviced this? I'm looking for an indi, vintage watchmaker willing to work on Venus, Landeron and Valjoux chronos


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You may want to contact Constantine at Chronometro. He's located in Michigan and specializes in vintage chronographs. I had a Roamer Stingray CD restored a couple of years ago, and it turned out great.

http://www.chronometro.com/

[morningtundra]

Do you know who serviced this? I'm looking for an indi, vintage watchmaker willing to work on Venus, Landeron and Valjoux chronos


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You may want to contact Constantine at Chronometro. He's located in Michigan and specializes in vintage chronographs. I had a Roamer Stingray CD restored a couple of years ago, and it turned out great.

http://www.chronometro.com/

Thanks! I'll drop him a line...


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