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Many men go weak at the knees when they spot a genuine Breitling on the wrist of a colleague or friend.

And it’s understandable.

These Swiss made watches are not just precise ways of keeping time. They are objects of beauty, and say something very specific about the wearer.

You should never buy a ‘replica’ Breitling over the internet.

Instead, if you can’t afford to buy new, they sometimes come up for sale at auctions of modern and antique watches.

There are two Breitlings in good condition coming up at the next wrist and pocket watches sale from auctioneer Fellows & Sons, on Monday 22nd October.

The company has been trading in Birmingham for 131 years: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

The two Breitling watches are:

Lot 9: An automatic Chronometre Navitimer wrist watch. The black dial has three silvered subsidiary dials, baton markers and the date in the 5 o’clock position. There are outer mph and km tracks and a bi-directional rotating bezel. The watch is fitted to a Breitling leather strap and pin buckle. It comes with case and papers, and is valued at £1,000 to £1,500.

Lot 88: A gentleman’s 1997 stainless steel automatic II wrist watch. It has a white dial with silver tone Arabic numerals and luminescent hands. The date appears in the 3 o’clock position. It has a steel Breitling bracelet with a flip lock clasp. The watch also comes with its presentation box, instruction book and warranty. Fellows have valued this watch between £300 and £400.

You can see all of the 472 items in the antique watches sale in the firm’s online catalogue: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

And it accepts bids from across the world for all sales, including the antique watches, with online bidding: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



Replica Swiss Watches

In the era of digital science, globalization and e-commerce, man’s life has stopped being the same old phenomenon. This starts looking more evident, if you compared today’s life with that of a quarter century ago. Apparently, we have more FM radio stations beaming out programs today, more digital cameras capturing human forms and nature, and more and more DVD players and iPods getting sold than ever before. Man’s life has surely been moving through a fast lane since we began living in the new millennium. This observation should stand true, at least, in the case of the developed and transforming nations.

One wonders how far in these circumstances could the age-old gadgets like wrist watches continue to survive on? One has got advanced cell phones that could conduct an amazing number of jobs, including time-keeping, if one tapped their fingers a few times around them. In fact, there is no need of even troubling one’s fingers these days, with so much of wireless technology playing its role. So where does the future of a mere time-keeping device like a wrist watch lie ahead in this transforming scenario? The answer could be found by affirming to the view that wrist watches were not solely time-keeping devices, but also a way of fashioning. This aspect becomes very clear if one looked inside the world of today’s designer watch segment. In fact, there are no simpler wrist watches available in the market anymore. Only brands of designer watches and their lookalikes are what one should expect to come across in the arena of watch industry these days.

You may have some very amazing watch designs to choose from a given variety of Rolex, Seiko, Von Dutch watches, Polanti watches, Giantto watches and similar other international brands. They make watches of all shades, sizes and price-tags that you may have the stamina to withstand with. All these companies offer designer watches that might range from several hundred to several thousand US dollars depending on one’s purchasing power. One may always select a designer watch either from a male or a female category that all these watch brands come forward with.

Besides, these companies make designer watches for all events in your life - from vacationing to partying, from getting into romance to marrying and from attending one’s workplace to having an evening out with somebody. Each of these occasions could be enhanced by carrying out a careful selection of the chosen designer watch styles. One might even get to have a custom watch designed by selecting a dial and a band from a given set of accessories. Moreover, some companies are also offering inexpensive watches these days starting from as little as $50.

With the millions of cell-phone users roaming throughout the world, designer watches are also being forced to include features like video games, digital cameras and calculators apart from being time-keeping machines. Various other features such as a digital display system, chronograph and an ability to withstand shock, water and scratch could also be seen inducted in the contemporary watch designs. The market for designer watch names like Polanti watches, Von Dutch watches and Giantto watches is continuing to grow as the world economy gains momentum with each passing year, and there are enough reasons to believe that this trend might continue to remain on the same course for many years to come now.



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How well off would you have to be to pay £3,500 for a watch that doesn’t even tell time?

You can test your wealth at an auctioneers in Birmingham. They are selling a Cartier watch that has stopped telling time, but is valued at up to £3,500.

Fellows & Sons is putting on a wrist and pocket watches sale Monday 22nd October 2007: http://www.fellows.co.uk

There is a second Cartier for sale. It’s a snip at up to £2,000… and it even works! See the full wrist and pocket watches range in the online catalogue here http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

If both Cartier watches sell for their top estimated value, they will got for a combined £5,500.

The first watch is valued at up to £3,500. It’s a gentleman’s 18 carat gold Roadster chronograph automatic wrist watch with black Roman numerals and hands with luminescent hour and minute hands. It has an 18 carat gold Cartier link bracelet with hidden butterfly clasp. There are many wear and tear marks, it has a build up of moisture in the case, and the watch isn’t currently running.

The second Cartier watch is in much better condition, and is valued at £1,500 to £2,000. It is a gentleman’s steel cased automatic Santos 100, and has a large square face with stylised Roman numerals. It is fitted to a Cartier black leather strap with a butterfly clasp, and comes with a box and papers.

There are a total of 472 items up for sale.

If you can’t make it to Birmingham to buy, you can monitor the wrist and pocket watches sale with a real time audio feed, and bid online here: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



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The internet is brimming with fake watches, or ‘replicas’ as they are now called.

They are almost never value for money and of course damage the brands of the real watches they are portraying to be.

Luckily these fakes are rarely trouble for experts in modern and antique watches.

One such expert is Craig Struthers of Fellows & Sons auctioneers in Birmingham: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

As an antique watch cataloguer currently working on the next wrist and pocket watches sale on Monday 22nd October, he said ‘replicas’ sold on the internet are normally easily spotted.

“When appraising watches you need to look very closely at the case, movement and dial, and imperfections need to be pointed out” he said.

“These are of upmost importance to watch buyers and collectors alike, as is originality. The movement is also an important aspect, as over the years many watches may not have been regularly serviced or repaired by the inexperienced.

Craig believes antique watches in poor condition have a value, if only for a particular part even as vintage spares can be very difficult to source.

All 472 items in the next watch sale can be seen in the firm’s online catalogue: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

And sales can be monitored from anywhere in the world with the live audio feed. Bids placed can be placed online at http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



Replica Swiss Watches

Many men go weak at the knees when they spot a genuine Breitling on the wrist of a colleague or friend.

And it’s understandable.

These Swiss made watches are not just precise ways of keeping time. They are objects of beauty, and say something very specific about the wearer.

You should never buy a ‘replica’ Breitling over the internet.

Instead, if you can’t afford to buy new, they sometimes come up for sale at auctions of modern and antique watches.

There are two Breitlings in good condition coming up at the next wrist and pocket watches sale from auctioneer Fellows & Sons, on Monday 22nd October.

The company has been trading in Birmingham for 131 years: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

The two Breitling watches are:

Lot 9: An automatic Chronometre Navitimer wrist watch. The black dial has three silvered subsidiary dials, baton markers and the date in the 5 o’clock position. There are outer mph and km tracks and a bi-directional rotating bezel. The watch is fitted to a Breitling leather strap and pin buckle. It comes with case and papers, and is valued at £1,000 to £1,500.

Lot 88: A gentleman’s 1997 stainless steel automatic II wrist watch. It has a white dial with silver tone Arabic numerals and luminescent hands. The date appears in the 3 o’clock position. It has a steel Breitling bracelet with a flip lock clasp. The watch also comes with its presentation box, instruction book and warranty. Fellows have valued this watch between £300 and £400.

You can see all of the 472 items in the antique watches sale in the firm’s online catalogue: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

And it accepts bids from across the world for all sales, including the antique watches, with online bidding: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



Replica Swiss Watches

A great way to get into collecting Omega watches

If you’ve ever wanted to get into collecting Omega watches, there are now significant numbers coming up for sale at auctions of wrist and pocket watches.

A great example id the next sale from 131 year old auctioneers Fellows & Sons in Birmingham on Monday 22nd October, starting at 11am: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

It has an amazing 50 Omega watches up for grabs. They can be viewed in the wrist and pocket watches online catalogue: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

Here are three of the highlights:

Lot 87: A lady’s gold plated manual wind Seamaster wrist watch. It has a cream dial with gold coloured baton markers and hands, and Omega Swiss 17 jewels movement. It is valued at £70 to £100.

Lot 105: A gentleman’s steel-cased Speedmaster Automatic chronograph wrist watch. The silvered dial has three subsidiary dial, baton markers and the date in the 3 o’clock position. This is valued at £280 to £350.

Lot 76: A 1940s Omega gentleman’s steel watch head with a manual wind. The silvered dial has black Arabic numerals and outer minute track. Fellows has valued this watch at £70 to £100.

And it’s good news if you want to bid but don’t live near Birmingham.

Sales can be monitored from anywhere in the world with the live audio feed, and bids can be placed online at: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



Replica Swiss Watches

How to start an antique watch collection

If you want to start a collection of beautiful objects, you can do a lot worse than look at antique watches.

If they have been looked after, good watches will last a long time.

There is also a ready supply of antique watches at auctions across the world. One such example if the highlight of the forthcoming wrist and pocket watch auction in Birmingham on Monday 22nd October.

An eighteenth century pocket watch is being sold by Fellows & Sons, and is valued at between £500 and £600: You can see the full catalogue here: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

The pocket watch has an under painted horn and gilt metal pair case, with studded tortoiseshell bezel painted with a fern design.

The under painted horn depicts a Masonic all-seeing eye above a scene of a woman holding a baby. She has two children at her feet and is flanked by two further females in classical dress.

A key is needed to wind the watch. It has a white dial, black Roman numerals and has been signed by the maker William Collett of Uxbridge. The movement is Verge Fusee with baluster pillars.

It’s one of 472 items in the sale which starts at 11am.

You can see even monitor the antique watches sale anywhere in the world thanks to a live audio feed, and make bids online here: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



Replica Breitling Watches

founded in what could be considered a late period of time for the emergence of watch companies. The two founders, Rene Bannwart and Simone Ries, established the company in 1955 and the company quickly earned a reputation for imaginative and exciting watches. While they made a name for themselves due to their unique design, the birth of many watch production companies took place one hundred years prior to the creation of Corum. Bannwart and Ries were cousins and Bannwart’s uncle, Gaston Ries, was the first to expose the two to the field of watches as he himself had worked at a small watch company in Switzerland since 1924. Together, Bannwart and the Messers Ries were able to blend their skills of watch making and creative design to produce some of the most intriguing watches on the market. Over time, they turned their watch business from a small, private watch company into a mass manufacturing success known as Corum.

The first Corum watches were released to the general public in 1956. From the start, the watches received critical acclaim from reviewers and the general consumer market. They unarguably were off to a great success. On all Corum watches, a unique symbol is used. The tell-tale logo is a key. This key symbol may be particularly interesting to note since the company has been able to expertly open the door to commercial success and private appeal. Nonetheless, the company decided it needed a bit of rejuvenation in the year 2000, forty years into the company’s success. At this time, Corum was taken over by Severin Wunderman, with whom it was hoped that the company would be able to explode with a new period of creativity and innovation. On his own, Wunderman had established himself as a watch visionary and Corum was lucky that he has brought this experience and insight to their company. Wunderman’s son, Michael, took over as the President of the company in 2004 and together the two men, who are known to back each other up, have been working diligently to explore new watch horizons. Appointed as the CEO of Corum in 2007, Antoine Calce is bringing professionalism and business experience to the company. Corum’s motto with regard to Calce is “Unlock and Conquer” making reference not only to the skills of Calce, but also the key logo of Corum.

Collections featured by Corum include Admiral’s Cup, Golden Bridge, Coin Watch, Corum Classical, Artisan Timepieces, Corum Bubble and the Corum Debutante. Possibly the most prestigious watch created by Corum would be the Meteorite watches that have been created. Only 999 dials have been created, forged from the largest meteorite that has ever landed on Earth, which fell to the Earth in the territory Greenland. Corum purchased the 34 ton meteorite deemed the “Cape York” and subsequently created these dials for only a limited number of watches. Another of the impressive watches that have been created by Corum is the $20 Liberty Eagle watch. This watch is highly coveted because it features a genuine $20 coin from the United States as the background/face of the watch. To make this watch, a $20 Liberty Eagle coin needs to be delicately split in half. Between the pieces, the watch parts are created and the halves are placed together to create the face and mechanized portion of the watch. While the use of a coin in a watch was nothing new, prior to Corum’s creation the process had only been used for pocket watches. Thanks to Corum, the coin watches were now available in wristwatch form.

Due to their progressive designs, Corum watches are easily distinguished from other watches. Corum prides itself on offering cutting-edge watch design to their consumers. The company understands that it is not realistic or impressive to base success on the creation of already existing watches. Mass manufacturing of already produced watches would not inherently lead to a watch company’s long term success since they would not be offering consumers anything new or exciting. In light of this, Corum works to completely redesign watches and turn their creation on its head.



Replica Piaget Watches

If you’re like most people, you have sometimes dreamed of having the perfect gleaming expensive watch on your wrist.

Beautiful wrist and pocket watches aren’t just a status symbol – they can make you feel good too.

But the cost can be prohibitive. Luckily, there is an alternative, offered by traditional auction houses such as Fellows & Sons: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

This 131 year old auctioneers has several Rolex watches for sale in its next wrist and pocket watch auction – some valued at just a few hundred pounds.

You can see the online catalogue here: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

The highlight of the Rolex collection is a Platinum Oyster Perpetual Day-date, which could sell for as much as £15,000.

Some of the other wrist and pocket watches in the sale on Monday 22nd October include:

Lot 127: A gentleman’s 18 carat gold Oyster Perpetual Day-Date automatic chronometer. It has a silver dial with gold tone index markers. Fellows have valued this watch at between £2,500 and £3,000.

Lot 114: A gentleman’s bi-colour Oyster Perpetual Datejust chronometer, from around 1961. It has a plastic face and stainless steel Jubilee bracelet. There are some scratches and wear marks, plus a ***** on the face and a damaged bracelet. However it is still worth £500 to £700.

Lot 121: A lady’s 9 carat gold Precision mechanical dress watch. It is fitted with a 17 jewel movement, and has an integral bracelet with correct badge and hallmark. It is valued at £370 to £450.

You can hear a live audio feed of the wrist and pocket watches sale and bid for items online during the sale at http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



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