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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: iKokomo on June 15, 2016, 02:09:21 PM
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We were cleaning the garage and inside an old suitcase we found a ton of neat things including this Timex automatic watch. When shaken, the watch still works.
I had a couple questions about this. What year is this watch / the history behind it? It was found in a suitcase with items from the 1940s-1960s.
My second question is, how to I measure the watch so I can purchase a new band for it so I can wear it?
Thanks a lot! Appreciate the help!
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7331/27082140234_3c40b9ec5c_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Hga3Lj)
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Neat old watch !! I haven one similar,, mine is 60`s I think !! Just take it to a department store that sells watch bands or a jewelry store !! Buy one that fits your wrist comfortably !! They can fit the band to the watch !!
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That's a great find if it is, indeed, an automatic. Automatics are wound by the movement of your wrist turning a weighted disk inside the watch. Timex got a lot of advertising on TV several years ago for "taking a licking and keeps on ticking" so there's a good chance it still works. I think it dates maybe to the early seventies. What does it do if you try to wind it? Or what does it do if you try to set it?