W/NW Let's see some wristwatches! (II)

A few more 1960's and 1970's vintage Chinese watches. The Shanghai was made in late 1950's. The Dongfeng brand watch was made in late 1960's and encased a home developed in-house ST5 movement.





 
Girard Perregaux Ref. 4958

Girard Perregaux Ref. 4958

I've been thinning my camera collection to purchase watches. Here is my next to last purchase.
 

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I sold off a load of my camera gear and bought this last year to replace my 30 year old Submariner I gave to my daughter. Hopefully I'll be wearing this for the next 30!
 
As a co-founder, and one of the moderators of the WUS Chinese mechanical watches forum, I have hundreds of these vintage Chinese watches made since late 1950's.🙂 The two shown were made in early 1960's and 1970's in Beijing and Shanghai respectively. I actively collected them for a few years since 2005 for historical documentation, and most gained value since then.


I really like the top one.
 
I have a vintage Omega from the 40s - Cal 265. The dial has been restored, obviously. A Fab Suisse from France. It's no Patek, but I love it anyway.

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I've been a big fan of Nomos watches and the company itself since the original Tangente, right when they came up with their Alpha movement (Very early Nomos used Peseux 7001).

I've had a few models over the years, but this is my one and only automatic from Nomos and actually in my (small) collection.

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DUW 3001 in-house movement
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Great stuff, keep it coming.

And nice Patek Mr. Rodinal. I guess it´s 33mm or some other now "ladies" size, right?
 
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