My collection of divers so far

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:15 pm

Sort of went over the deep end on vintage divers my collection to date is well out there trying to figure out what to keep and what to let go. Any comments would be welcome. Cheers and sorry it's been so long since I've posted.

I really love Elgins I have a few Bakelite I'm working on but these rock.

My walthams 25,17 auto and a manual

Bulova and Caravelles I buy them broke and fix them. Doing well.

HelBros diver and world time

Baume&Mercier vintage 20atmos

Alsta jaws watch and Avia divers

Baylor Rado and vostok

Tradition compressor Tissot 516 Enicar auto

Tapatalk crashed I hope this restores it.

dukerules · Post by **dukerules** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:17 pm

Great vintage collection. Love the Alsta.

marchone · Post by **marchone** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:22 pm

You have a problem. Welcome to the enablers club.

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:38 pm

Yeah I know I have about 50 more but most are works in progress lol but I do have a few I'm going to be springing soon I was even impressed by. Cheers

BBK357 · Post by **BBK357** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:43 pm

Welcome

deepcdvr · Post by **deepcdvr** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:10 pm

Dude you need to post more - you're collection rocks

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:16 pm

Yeah I am going too. I was playing on the dark side but realized where my version of the force lives so here I am lol. This isn't a diver but I just finished it and I am seriously amazed at how it turned out.
Baylor cricket

I can even feel the alarm as well as hear it and I'm bloody deaf
Lol.

hoppes-no9 · Post by **hoppes-no9** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:29 pm

If I had that collection I'd have to get up 10 minutes earlier to have enough time to pick out my watch.

VERY nice!!

59yukon01 · Post by **59yukon01** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:17 pm

Nice collection. No doubt you put in the effort to find those vintage pieces.

falcon4311 · Post by **falcon4311** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:47 am

Welcome sir.

rockmastermike · Post by **rockmastermike** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:21 am

I'm diggin' those Helbros!

gr8sw · Post by **gr8sw** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:26 am

cool stuff

keep 'em coming!

andrema · Post by **andrema** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:31 am

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:19 am

I do have a few modern ones like the citizen echo types and such and saying good bye to the seaking

also on the modern side I have Sekio

Rotary and Gruen tissins, and CARDINALS lol

And a oldie but goodie T25

Ok the reason for the post is in going to take all these and let them go except 5 and I'll start over what 5 should I keep? I really love the Alsta and it was on the original horror diving movie JaWs. And the waltham 25 is about as rare as you can get in good condition but what else. Any comment would rock. Thanks

AtomicTom · Post by **AtomicTom** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:34 am

Yowza Bogart ! Incredible !!!

Thanks so much for all of the pics !

Wouldn't change a thing, or get rid of any of those there. They are all outstanding,
and not watches you'll see every day. Can imagine how much time, and effort it took
find all of these. Would just wear, and enjoy them Bogart !

1954Selmer · Post by **1954Selmer** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:35 am

I have no knowledge of vintage pieces, but that Helbros looks interesting. Super collection. Have fun making your decision!

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:32 pm

1954Selmer wrote:I have no knowledge of vintage pieces, but that Helbros looks interesting. Super collection. Have fun making your decision!

fun??? Heheh I wish I could keep them but I'm chasing a few that are going to cost me more than I care to think about lol. But yeah it has been a blast getting these and the ones I'm working on now are better than I deserve to own as long as I ca swing the parts lol. It's a blast but I'm just keeping 5 out of the vintage stuff shown all the rest are going on the sales block. Cheers all. If anything catches your eyes just shout. Cheers. But seriously what would you keep. The Alsta and the Waltham are for sure keepers. But.......

T.R. · Post by **T.R.** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:19 pm

Nice group of vintage divers.

....and, you have a vintage Alsta... very cool!

Steve O. · Post by **Steve O.** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:48 am

Nice collection. I recently sold a compressor style Elgin similar to your Lord Elgin. Still have an extra NOS case with correct black resin insert if you're interested...

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:00 pm

Let me know how much you want for the case Steve I've seen some on sale on eBay. I just bought a Tag Indy500 so I'm a bit stretched but if I have the extra I'll grab it from you. Cheers.

By the way I have a lot of snorkel parts if your ever in need I could probably rebuild 5 full movements with the parts I have lol. Mostly loose parts but I might have a full movement around somewhere. Cheers

Steve O. · Post by **Steve O.** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:41 am

bogartrules wrote:Let me know how much you want for the case Steve I've seen some on sale on eBay. I just bought a Tag Indy500 so I'm a bit stretched but if I have the extra I'll grab it from you. Cheers.

By the way I have a lot of snorkel parts if your ever in need I could probably rebuild 5 full movements with the parts I have lol. Mostly loose parts but I might have a full movement around somewhere. Cheers

PM sent.

bogartrules · Post by **bogartrules** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:20 am

Oki Doki going to start posting these to the sales area if anyone sees some thing like give me a yell. There is a method to my madness. I figured out what ones I'm keeping though. Cheers and btw I appreciate the opinions of keep them all and if I had 10 arms I would lol. But there is something special coming up and I'm not going to miss it.

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