For literally years, I have been searching on and off for the ideal vintage watch. I must admit almost total paranoia about buying one from someone unknown to me online. Not just that fact, but I really didn't see anything that was appealing enough. To my surprise, within the past week, I have found not just one, but two gorgeous vintage pieces at a local well-established watch service centre, which also specializes in repair, restoration and selling pre owned watches. The shop called Otto Friedl has been in business for decades. My father even bought some Omega watches there, and he was last in the shop in January, 1970 when he had his 50's Bumper Automatic serviced.
The two watches I found there, both in mint condition:
Omega Bumper Automatic circa 1953-55
Omega Geveve Dynamic I Manual Wind circa 1968
The Bumper Automatic Calibre 351:
The Omega Geveve Dynamic I Calibre 601. This one has everything original,even the hesalite crystal with the Omega logo etched in the centre, although it doesn't show up in the pics. The icing on the cake is the NOS bracelet which they found for it. It looks as though it has always been on the watch:
I feel very fortunate to have found these two beauties. To finally wear a quality vintage watch, it is a totally different feeling than wearing a new watch. Although the cost of these two vintage watches is a fraction of the cost of my new watches, to me they are priceless!
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Carl
). So these two almost-factory-fresh pieces of yours really hit the spot for me.
