Watches
The Small Details That Separate Good Vintage Watches From Great Ones
An editor at the watch website Hodinkee offers some hints for being in the know among timepiece collectors.
Sources (clockwise, from top left): Rolex; Omega; Audemars Piguet; Matthew Bain Inc.; Christie’s.
It wasn’t that long ago that spotting a classic timepiece on a person’s wrist was a sign that you were dealing with someone in the know. But over the past few years, with quality mechanical watches becoming widely available across the internet—along with information about them—that’s no longer the case.
Still, there are watches that can act as that secret handshake among knowledgeable collectors.