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January 10, 2017
New old stock is a term used to describe a watch which has laid in a retailers since the day it was bought. Sometimes businesses close and remaining stock gets left in a safe or in attics laid forgotten. The “Quartz crises” of the early seventies quickly made mechanical watches obsolete and indeed old fashioned as battery and digital watches became hugely popular. This meant that many watches by popular Swiss watch brands were left unsold, to find one , unworn, with box and sticker on the back is now the “Grail” of vintage watches and extremely hard to find!


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June 4, 2025
03/06/2025 Personal-tailoring expert Jeremy from Rhodes Wood visits Bowcliffe Hall to chat watches with our director Jonathan. The two friends catch up to discuss a love of vintage watches,the evolution of watches, collecting and how an accessory can express personality […]
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November 4, 2022
In 2000 FHM magazine ran a series of articles about unusual collections and collectors. They contacted myself because for some time, while working in a retail jewellers, I decided to look for and collect Heuer watches. Nobody displayed the slightest bit of interest in what were then dismissed as “second hand Tags”.
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