dont make them like the yused to!

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hi my friends wondered what you might make of this 1944 timor -a new addition -its three years older than me but in better shape than myself ! - i have some lovely contempory watches but find vintage pieces that have stood the test of time irresistable would be interested in like souls to give their opinion

[Dark30]

Very nice!

I have no qualms with wearing classic watches, but remember it is a 70 year old piece of machinery and not a new quartz beater.

So I would have it serviced and possibly the face cleaned slightly but you may wish to speak with a restorer or collector before you do anything at all with it.

I am not knowledgeable about old watches at all, but my experience with other items of antiquity is that you need to really speak with an expert for anything of antique value. If I had to verbally state it as an opinion most anything old or otherwise limited and so valuable, there will be only be a few examples in actual original conditon. These will be becoming fewer and fewer over the years, and one reason is that some owner will fiddle with it in some easy/simple way and screw something up. And over a few years or decades or centuries many of them will have the same particular owner-caused damage. Countless fortunes have been lost simply by the act of scrubbing some old item with some scouring powder and a steel wool pad. Not caused by the same guy, but by the same mindset and I always find that interesting.