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Vintage Watch Ads

Post by Steve O. » Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:50 am

I've always found vintage watch advertisements interesting. Here's a few that I've come across over the years...


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Post by demer03 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:31 pm

Love this idea. I’ll add what I’ve saved.
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Post by demer03 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:38 pm

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Post by Morethan1 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:42 pm

All ad some

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Post by demer03 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:46 pm

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Post by gr8sw » Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:07 pm

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Post by aikiman44 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:04 pm

Great collection of ads!
"We'd better synchronize our watches."
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Post by gr8sw » Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:57 pm

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Post by aikiman44 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:07 pm

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Post by Steve O. » Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:35 pm

Great ads guys!
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Post by HapaHapa » Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:50 am

Very nice. I wasn't expecting the Scubapro Darth Tuna.
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Post by Steve O. » Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:14 pm

Or, how about that solid gold Scubapro 500 Chronometer? In all the years that I've been collecting and researching dive watches, from what I can tell, nobody has ever actually seen one.
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Post by Steve O. » Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:48 pm

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Post by Bob1035 » Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:50 am

Great thread!


In for the classic IWC ads :grin:
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Post by unsub073 » Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:00 am

All of those are really cool especially the Peter Benchley and Ted Williams ones.
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Post by Jonoman » Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:23 pm

I took these pictures today. Found some old skin diver mags from 1980. And a scuba pro catalog and a Dacor catalog Image
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Re: Vintage Watch Ads

Post by amckiwi » Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:50 pm

A bottom light is pretty specialist
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Post by Bob1035 » Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:36 am

Love all these ads!
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Post by River Rat » Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:29 am

Figured I would ad one plus the watch being advertised. Wished they were still sold for 85 bucks.
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Post by Batt14 » Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:59 am

I've picked up a few to compliment my Chronosport collection.

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Post by serdal22 » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:05 pm

Good old ads and watches. Beautiful.

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Post by ChuckW » Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:15 pm

Here's one for Omega Seamaster. I especially like it since I own the watch.

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Omega Speedmaster Pro 3570.50, Omega Seamaster Pro 2255.80, Omega Planet Ocean 2500D 2201.50, Ares Diver 1
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Re: Vintage Watch Ads

Post by Captdave » Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:01 pm

Very cool collection guys!


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