Back with a brand new interview on WahaWatches.
It’s my pleasure to introduce Justin Vrakas. Justin is the founder & owner of Watchsteez and he is also a member of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors.
Watchsteez is an online shop focusing on chronographs and tool watches. Recently, he started collaborating with Analog/Shift.
Time for another interview! This time, I had the honor to interview Emre Kiris. Emre is an archivist and documentalist for Glycine Heritage. He has his own website, Glycintennial, with all the info on Glycine watches you need.
He’s also active on several watch forums and he’s an avid book collector. I contacted him on Watchuseek in 2015 and we’ve stayed in contact since.
I think watches in general is a boys thing. The fascination of tiny mechanical pieces working in harmony is alluring. Contemporary watches vs vintage watches is a choice. If you have an 18k beat timepiece from the 1940’s, it ticks like a watch. In my mind, they sound way better than modern watches because of different case constructions.
I think it was when I re-discovered one of my childhood mechanical watches in the attic that the love for vintage watches started. The whole obsession resurfaced, like long suppressed emotions. The following week, I’d already bought a couple new old watches.
This is the 6th interview on WahaWatches. This time the interview is with Mesut Özturk. Mesut is an econometrics student and has been collecting vintage watches for 7 years. He’s very active on different auction sites and he’s also a regular on the Dutch watch forum.
It all started when I was 15 years old and a classmate was wearing a vintage Breitling chronograph. It was a unique one because that Breitling belonged to the trainer of Real Madrid in 1952. It was probably given by the club with their logo on the dial. That jumpstarted my interest in vintage watches. It’s always great to find out a watches history.
This interview is with George Clarkson. He is a hobbyist watchmaker from Germany and recently started a webshop, Only Vintage Watches. This is a young company where you can find vintage watches for a decent prize and with an honest description. They are collectors themselves and only offer what they would like to add to their collection themselves.
It all began some years ago, removing from a dusty drawer the Seiko 7A34-7010 gold plated watch that belonged to my late father. I had previously tried to put it back to work changing the battery, but apparently, the years of use and probably some unwanted received shock had caused more damage than what could be seen. I then started looking online for a possible solution, or a how-to to restore the watch and I found a forum dedicated just to this brand and series of watches. Who might have known…
Time for another interview. This time with Blake Drayson, founder, and owner of TickTalk. TickTalk is a blog about collecting watches and mainly from a beginner’s perspective.
My watch collection started with an unexpected birthday present from my fiancé, she wanted to buy me a watch but did not know what I would like. The process of thinking about looking at and eventually purchasing a watch ignited something in me and drove me to start collecting and then writing about the subject.
My watch collecting habits up to this point haven’t been driven specifically by a love of vintage watches. I’m new to collecting and I certainly do appreciate and enjoy vintage watches, but it’s not exclusive. The most recent memorable exposure to a prestigious collection of vintage watches that did have a big impact on me was at the Patek Philippe – Grand Exhibition in London last year. There was, as you would expect, some outstanding vintage pieces, transported from their museum in Switzerland.
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