Three Awesome Vintage Watches You Can Actually Afford

Does it sometimes feel like vintage watches have left the roots of their appeal behind with escalating prices? The internet made once humble, historical watches more widely available and easily searchable, but it also educated a new generation of voracious watch lovers - as well as created buzz around certain brands, models, and genres, and collecting in general Well, it takes some work, but affordable vintage watches worth buying can still be found What We Like: As a sub-brand of Bulova, Caravelle made handsome and interesting watches in the 1960s and '70s like this one from around 1975 that features some classic, conservative design elements alongside idiosyncratic, framed numbers.

What We Like: LIP is interesting, first, for being among a handful of significant French watch brands that made quality movements and watches in relative volume before falling victim to the Quartz Crisis Vintage LIP watches range in style and price, but this one is representative of LIP's style - and the brand's modern incarnation produces a similar, retro-inspired model again today A case in point is the watch industry and how brands collaborated, shared, and banded together in ways that are uncommon now.

With a Swiss ETA 2782 automatic movement inside and a perfectly modern 38mm diameter, this is an inexpensive way to get a great-looking vintage dive watch on your wrist. . Source