Vintage Watches

Swiss watchmaker Rene Bannwart founded the Corum watch brand in 1955 with his cousin Simone and her father Gaston Ries. Corum designs sophisticated, fresh, highly imaginative and innovative watches. The first collection was in 1956 but the relative youth of the firm should no distract the attention of collectors and investors from the virtues of Corum watches. (more...)

Gruen was founded in 1874 in Columbus, Ohio, by Dietrich Gruen, a Swiss, a young watch manufacturer who had learned his trade under one Masters of Freiburg, Germany, among the most renowned horologist of his time. He had founded his business in America with the idea of producing a watch of exceptional merit. For its production his thoughts turned naturally to Switzerland, where from time out of mind the finest watches have been produced. (more...)

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Longines watches, classic watch design since 1867. Longines has outfitted polar researchers such as Amundsen and pioneers in aviation such as Lindbergh and von Weems with its products, reaping an excellent reputation for board watches for airplanes and continuing to keep a hand in sports timing. (more...)

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The Elgin watch company produced more jeweled watches than any other watchmaker in America. The company made low priced watches, all the way up to high quality railroad grades pocket watches. Elgin's Art Deco watches are highly collectible. (more...)

Bulova launched in 1897 by Joseph Bulova, an immigrant from Bohemia, was at some point the largest watchmaker in America. It is most well-known for the Accutron watches, in the sixties, NASA asked the company to channel its Accutron efforts into developing computers for the Space Program. (more...)

Breguet, icon of classic watchmaking and pioneer of numerous function and design trademarks since 1775. (more...)