Watches
Both antique watches and vintage watches have become so popular in recent years and have created such a genre and culture of its own.
For people who are after a watch that little bit different or more special than a new one, the vintage watch market opens them up to a whole new world.
Collectors of vintage watches have the benefit of being able to collect one particular style or maker such as chronograph watches, or Omega watches, or from a particualr era such as the 1970's, or any watch that simply just takes their fancy.
Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Panerai, Heuer, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin are just a few of the watch brands that have become so popular in recent years.
The Omega Constellation, Rolex Daytona, early Heuer Chronographs (before becoming Tag Heuer) are again just a small example of watches that have become so collectable.
Many people find that vintage and antique watches are so varied in the designs over the decades - from tonneau cased watch with Roman numerals popualr in the Art Deco watches of the 1920's, to the very large cases in watches from the 1970's, which saw a big come back in the early 2000's from watch companies such as Panerai.
Vintage, second hand and antique watches is about having a passion for something past that can still be functional today and worn all the time, with a look and style of its own.