Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Trip to the charity shops today, looking in the cabinet of one shop spy an old vintage watch. How much asks I, £20 says the woman! It’s only a Jäger lecouture isn’t it 😮 then in another shop a beautiful accurist circa 1950 fully working for £4.99 Edited October 11, 2019 by Lord Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Clavata Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Awesome indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Sweet, The Jager will keep you busy for a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) That JLC is very nice. Looks like the 1950&60' omegas of the time. Edited October 11, 2019 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 53 minutes ago, Lord Geordie said: Trip to the charity shops today, looking in the cabinet of one shop spy an old vintage watch. How much asks I, £20 says the woman! It’s only a Jäger lecouture isn’t it 😮 then in another shop a beautiful accurist circa 1950 auto fully working for £4.99 means nothing to me unless i google, but I'm guessing you're happy. looks nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 You could say I am ecstatic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 49 minutes ago, Lord Geordie said: You could say I am ecstatic! You made me look, very nice indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westward Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 If it's in good shape and working it must be worth about £2K and that would make it a most brilliant buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 The accurist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 You certainly deserve a bit of good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sussexboy Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 That JLC is awesome, I can understand why you are ecstatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Nice find, elegant looking. Did you leave a little donation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Yeah £20👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirokuMK70 Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 A dream charity shop find! Well done... That will be awesome when its cleaned up, i assume its an acrylic/hesalite crystal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Yes the crystal is a smoked acrylic which really needs either the scratches polished out, or replaced! And the watch back could do with some scratches polished out too where some nugget has used the wrong tooling 😞 but the watch runs beautifully and is well worth saving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirokuMK70 Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Some polywatch will sort the crystal out... you'd be amazed at what it can do to acrylic crystals... I'm very jealous of your find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Thanks, I will look into that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Lord Geordie said: Yeah £20👍 Nice gesture, not everybody would. I had a mate who found a high quality cartridge bag in the ladies handbag section of a charity shop. They didn't realise what it was and he got it for next to nothing. His wife shamed him in to a donation. Edited October 11, 2019 by redial Error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Got the back off! Needs a good clean and will have it serviced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Have you checked it's time keeping LG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Yes, it needs a service as it’s running a little slow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 So now fitted the Accurist with a new (vintage) strap and am quite happy with the look. The strap needed some light reshaping to ease it into the watch shoulders. But it fits perfect now! Just a light scratch on the crystal to polish out now and it’s done!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 Very nice Mate, will you keep it or move it on for a profit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 I keep all my watches. I will never make any money I have a drawer full of about 40 wrist watches! Around 25 pocket watches and 14 clocks too The current clock I am working on! It needs a new dual cylinder pendulum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 Are all the time pieces the exact same time? might be "time" to sell a few 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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