Vintage watch magazine. What’s the oldest one you own?
Hi all, Few months ago, during a major spring cleaning, my mother in law found this neo vintage French watch magazine from December 1991 in perfect condition. Almost 26 years old and #2. 35 French francs at that time equal to EUR 8 today (taking account o...
You have your own librarian for that lot?!
That is one serious watch library Cheers JML
I have some Orologi magazines from the 80s that I found at Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice.
Will try to post pics when I get home. They are such great time capsules! Best, Brandon
Here we go! Basel ‘88
Enjoy: Patek has always been timeless Check out the Franck Mueller / UN Tourbillon! Best, Brandon ...
Super cool Brandon
Thanks for sharing with us all these magazine pages. As I can see, Orologi was in its second year in 1988 so that means it’s the oldest magazine we have seen for the moment. Thanks again Best wishes Alkiro
Sweet!
I didn’t know that Orologi was only started in 1987. Watch magazines have been around for as long as I’ve been interested in watches, and I assumed they’d all been around for much longer. I just noticed WatchTime was only started in 1999. Very interesting...
Orologi
not sure what date as traveling, but know the Panerai now pre vendome pricing..,. In ITL 😀 Dirk
Great minds think alike...
...I was just about to start a post featuring some of my old magazines : ) I had a LOT of them until the 'wife acceptance factor' forced a purge about ten years ago. Will post a pic later... ...
The best part is the prices...
...I am talking about retail prices historically so I think it's OK to discuss. In the 'Watches 4' (pictured in my post above) published in 1999, here are a few standouts: -- Patek 3940R $43k -- Patek 5004J $143k -- Patek 3970J $76,800 -- Lange 1 $19,800 ...
An optimist, I see...
...it would be interesting to see what the value of a dollar was compared to today. In other words, have prices increased at the same rate as inflation, or have they gone up higher than inflation? I'm too lazy to look it up (and the online calculators I'v...
It’s always difficult to compare watch prices at different periods as we should have exactly the same model as a reference.
But, regarding the examples you gave us, watch prices have obviously increased more significantly than inflation. Inflation rates over the last 25 years are as following : +43% in France, +76% in the US and only +18% in Switzerland. Best wishes Alkiro
When the www was something unknown
...the only source were these magazines, or the various booklets from the ADs. At that time I had two favourite magazines: the Italian "L'Orologio" and the German "Uhren Magazin". Here two pics from the oldest examples I could find. Best René L'Orologio f...
Just threw away all my old watch magazines ....
.... during my in-house moving of my study room. This was but a pile of paper using up a lot of space, and I had not opened one of them during the last six or seven years. The very few articles I considered valuable have been scanned and saved on my HD, t...
I fully understand your position dear Marcus as all these magazines have not the same “impact” on us that they could have 20 or 25 years ago before internet
Nevertheless, I would like to make a parallel between physical books and e-book readers. These later ones are really useful and don’t need a lot of space compared to real books but they don’t give you the same feeling. For instance, sometimes, I love to r...
I always made a difference between a book and magazines
While I have only a very decent "library" of about 3,000 volumes, the space consumed by them is considerable. When I moved from ym flat into my actual house, I was surprised to find tons of magazines collected and stored away in the deptchs of cupboards a...
Pure necessity ...
in my office at the university, some 200+ other books of mine are stored in the shelves. Eventually, I will have transfer them to my home as well, so space is urgently needed. And while I once thought that I would never, ever throw away a book, or even gi...
Agree with you. Our relations with physical books have dramatically changed over the last years with internet and e-books
But, to be honest with you, I’m a little bit disappointed about this major event for books since Gutenberg and nostalgic because holding a book in his hands, rather than an e-book, offers always something really special to his owner for me. Best wishes Al...