Category: Neo Vintage

  • The Things We Do… and More Bulovas

    The Things We Do… and More Bulovas

    Rescuing older watches and more I was just going to add some more Bulova Marine Stars to my older posts, but decided to go ahead and start another post about the how they came to be on my wrist. I started thinking about everything I went through to get some of these watches working again…

  • Marine Star Glory Days Part 3

    Marine Star Glory Days Part 3

    A new century for Marine Stars This will be the third installment of my Marine Star musings. In Part 2 got up to around 1998. I can’t see a fourth because after about 2005 the watches mostly begin to lose interest for me. Overall, they just became big, boring, less interesting. I continue to collect…

  • Marine Star Glory Days Part 2

    Marine Star Glory Days Part 2

    Elaborate designs head to YK2 1997 and 1998 seems to have been a prolific period for the Marine Star designers? My collection seems to be heavy with models from those two years and I’m not sure why that is? As I was discussing in Part 1, there was a huge variety of designs and manufacturing…

  • Marine Star Glory Days Part 1

    Marine Star Glory Days Part 1

    The Golden Age of the Bulova Dressy Diver I finally had to sit down and start to write about my Bulova Marine Star collection. Its been a few years since I started collecting these. Throughout that time I’ve been researching and finding these little jewels, I’ve also been trying to figure out what it is…

  • M&Co 1987 31mm

    M&Co 1987 31mm

    Gill Compressed Wins the Day Sometimes a watch isn’t about it being a watch. Its about things happening around it that come together as a watch. Its about things that people are interested in that are attached to a watch. A watch is a useful tool for telling time, but it can carry along other…

  • Neo Vintage Gruens: Part 2

    Neo Vintage Gruens: Part 2

    These things are crazy! A while back I was ruminating on the 1980s – 90s era of cheap fashion watches. I spent some time on very inexpensive preowned Gruens I stumbled onto in Part 1. Well, I’m back with several more of these little zingers. I’m still trying to get a handle on the low-end…

  • Archive 38s by Sea, Air and Land?: Part 1

    Archive 38s by Sea, Air and Land?: Part 1

    The Timex Archive diver-flavored 38mm gems Attraction These may be the watches that started me spinning down the Timex Archive rabbit hole? They manage to combine several elements; diver, pilot, retro, military field, and a 38mm size to the point that one is not sure what they are but they have your attention. I really…