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Hello Forum, I am new to this so please bear with me if I do any mistakes. My mother passed away 2 months ago and left a gold ladies watch in her estate. It was given to her by my father for x-mas 1953 and is so inscribed. The face plate says International Watch and below Swiss. The movement is stamped international watch and perhaps more. The lid which I do have an unreadable picture of says something. My question/questions are: Is it worth the money to send it into IWC for evaluation? Where would I sell this watch if it came down to that. And does someone have an idea of how old it is. I know that I need to provide the photographs but I cant for the life of me figure out how to do it. If you let me know I will do so. Lars
That makes sense. If you have the movement serial number we can look up the date, or you can in DateYourIWC (Google it --one word). The date seems like late 40s or early 50s --just a guess.
Unfortunately small ladies' vintage watches have a very small demand. The gold is often worth more than the watch, but to me the value here as a family heirloom is greater,
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When I joined the London importers of Oris back in the early 70's the 6 3/4 ligne ladies watch with chord strap in chrome plate or gold plate outsold all other ladies models by at least 20%. Some customers just used to order them twice a year by so many Gross (=144). No other watch sold as well right up to 1975. Mind you the retail price was less than £12.00. I just regarded them as old ladies watches and thought of them as silly little things for women who needed only a vague idea of the time and who in turn probably struggled to read the dial at the best of times. We only carried a handful of ladies autos which were all slow sellers.
I am new to this so please bear with me if I do any mistakes.
My mother passed away 2 months ago and left a gold ladies watch in her estate. It was given to her by my father for x-mas 1953 and is so inscribed.
The face plate says International Watch and below Swiss.
The movement is stamped international watch and perhaps more.
The lid which I do have an unreadable picture of says something.
My question/questions are:
Is it worth the money to send it into IWC for evaluation?
Where would I sell this watch if it came down to that.
And does someone have an idea of how old it is.
I know that I need to provide the photographs but I cant for the life of me figure out how to do it. If you let me know I will do so.
Lars
Regards, Michael
mfriedberg@iwcforum.com
Unfortunately small ladies' vintage watches have a very small demand. The gold is often worth more than the watch, but to me the value here as a family heirloom is greater,
Regards, Michael
mfriedberg@iwcforum.com
Today, in the time of giantism, all has to be big: buildings, saleries .... and watches!
So the tiny ladies-watches are not really "en vogue".
Years ago, I bought some of those micro-technological very interesting pieces, to document the movements...
Now they wait in a box, till time changes to "small is beautiful"!
There is no time in the now it's time for a watch.
Beautiful collection, I wish they were mine!
Jimmy
I just regarded them as old ladies watches and thought of them as silly little things for women who needed only a vague idea of the time and who in turn probably struggled to read the dial at the best of times. We only carried a handful of ladies autos which were all slow sellers.
Cheers Greg Chalk
Cvanwhite at aol dot com
Last edited: 21 February, 2013 - 13:47