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Old 10 November 2013, 11:34 PM   #1
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vintage AP Dress watches

Hi all what do you guys think of the above? I'm considering a vintage white gold model (mechanical wind) over the a typical Patek.

Are these usually easy to service at most regular watchmakers?
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Old 10 November 2013, 11:56 PM   #2
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Should e easy to service, parts will be a pain. I'd just buy a vintage white gold dress watch made by longines or Somthing. There are plenty of options out there for less money that's going to get you the same quality watch. You can even buy a solid gold rolex head for around $2k
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Old 11 November 2013, 12:12 AM   #3
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I'm afraid I cannot see the picture, is it possible for you to post it again?

Vintage AP's will not always be that easy to service. I don't know if yours has two or three hands but in both cases even if the watch looks simple the movement may not be. It's easy to clean and lubricate a manual winding movement that only shows time but when parts and bridges are that thin they can easily break, get worn out or be bent and that could affect the accuracy of the watch. I sent mine to a well known watchmaker in my neck of the woods and he explained to me what he had to do to my watch, it's still being tested and I'll probably post an update soon but it wasn't that easy to work on it and since parts are very, very hard to find (if it's even possible) you don't have a lot of chances.

Here's my watch, it has the caliber 2003 and as you can see it's not the thickest thing in town...



Owning a vintage Patek, Vacheron or Audemars is really something else in my opinion but you must know what you're getting into. I don't want to scare you too much and a regular service on a watch that already works well isn't that bad but if it hasn't been serviced in a while I'd make sure the watchmaker I give it to has a lot of experience and a good reputation. I'm studying watchmaking myself and worked on a few of my own watches (some of them being very old) but that one was too thin for me, I preferred to let somebody with more experience work on it the first time.
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