Why Buy Vintage Watches? Answered - Omega, Vacheron, LeCoultre, IWC & Doxa - New York Minute

Welcome to another Episode of Clock Stock & Barrel, where we offer a consumer's opinion on everything watch related. Today we discuss... Watches with a true gentleman and veteran within the watch repair/sale industry: Maurice.
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Clock Stock & Barrel
Music by / hi_malachi

[@idmejia89]

Hey guys, first off great job on the video! Second, I've noticed you guys do a lot of unboxings/reviews and was curious what online site you guys use to buy them from? I'm new to the watch game and was hoping you might be able to shed some light on this topic. Thanks in advance!

[@idmejia89]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the advice and the quick replies. I look forward to your upcoming videos!

[@dylancarrick5239]

What is the name of the shop you were in

[@ztobe3822]

After watching this video, I went to the great bazaar (upper west side flea market). Guess who I bumped into selling vintage watches????!!! Great job, guys! Would love another New York Minute!

[@meltdowngrfx969]

Saw Maurice today at the Green Flea Market. What a great collection of timepieces and such a cool guy. Thanks for pointing me in his direction.

[@dw2160]

Really enjoyed the new segment. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to the next one fellas.

[@aaronshapiroedc]

This was great guys, love to see more videos like this... A bit of an interesting concept, "a watch guy's vlog."

[@johnpaulhardin8363]

Well executed and provides a fresh perspective! Looking forward to the next! Keep it up

[@thelucentcrow9084]

I could listen to him all day long that’s an old school gent that have mostly sadly gone now.

[@bluebottle650]

Amazing video!!!! I'm in SF and there's nothing like this here, at least that I know of. New to the content and subscribed right away. Fantastic editing all around and look forward to more similar content. This is the 1st vlog of this kind where I've seen anyone go vintage hunting. Would love to see more episodes like this!!! Keep it up!

[@clarea-s6779]

German with a French name and a very southern British accent, Maurice was enlightening. I’m a JLC buff but will deffo be looking at Doxa.

[@Alan1234x]

Excellent! Maurice knows his stuff and he was very interesting.

[@duklyful]

Great interview with a local watch repairer/seller. More hidden gems please!

[@Music4Me1957]

new subscriber within the last week. Enjoying your content and especially your new "New York Min" segments. being from South Carolina, to really see some wonderful boutiques may be Charlotte NC. it definitely Atl Ga which is 3 1/2 hers from me. anything you bring and produce outside of your studio will be fun and interesting. Keep the adventures out into the big city coming and in sure we will keep watching.

[@leoluck68]

Great video. Look forward to the next NY minute 😃

[@rickcroucher]

Very enjoyable post. He was a great interview.

[@Ecksterphono]

The Bridle on the mainspring was an amazing was an amazing invention with the notches on the barrel. Making the springs pretty much unbreakable. The torque of the winding gear makes the spring slip when attempting to overwind the spring. I have a schild Hebdow pocket watch from 1920. Huge mainspring covers the unit with the bridle type spring 8 day power reserve. Company formerly known as Schild cie Hebdomas ( Graizly freres) 8 day watch with amazingly beautiful engravings on the mainspring barrel

[@Balonishell]

Very interesting adventure. Thanks for sharing this.

[@patrickma07]

I've 100% played basketball in that gym 2 years ago. love love love those vintage Omegas.

[@ChandanBhuran]

Nice series! I am lucky enough to live around NYC. I will definitely check out Maurice's watch stall. Can you suggest any other places to buy vintage watches?

[@mohammadamin9061]

Vacheron Constantin is Greatest Haute Horology . Great video ,

[@jacksugden8190]

Never seen flee markets or second hand shops selling selling old or new watches here in London UK, been living here for almost 40 years, only currently jewellery shops, possible pawn and specialist markets, noticed that the second hands on both your watches weren’t working in the introduction…

[@pilotstyle123]

innovative watch content, really great

[@funwithturtles6844]

Grandpa is that you? Just kidding ^^ very unique and interesting video. Thanks!

[@nimag88]

nice job guys, keep up the good work.

[@h111551]

Patrick, Well done. This was your first outing on this series so there was no doubt a bit of improvisation involved. My advice to you which you are free to accept or reject is as follows: go with your strengths which are devoted to getting people to tell in a focused way about themselves and their watches. When you look at this video and compare it to your past work, I think that you will find the question text is not up for view as long as you traditionally have kept it up and the answers to the question were so short that you were very rapidly segueing to the next question. As a viewer, such rapid transitions are distracting. It takes a moment for a viewer to digest the text of a question and to become mentally prepared and open to the shift in the conversation. It was actually fortunate that the vendor did not want to be seen on screen because it caused the watches to be the center of focus. You should consider how to highlight specific watches visually. As a set up, seeing a mass of watches sets the stage for the viewer but I wanted to see more of the individual watches. Under normalized circumstances featuring somebody who is not concerned about their anonymity, highlighting the vendor, their location, their website, their specialties and the price of specific watches so a viewer can follow up and even initiate a potential purchase are all things that are desirable. There is probably a balance as to how many watches can effectively be featured or discussed. The best part of the watch discussion was probably about Doxa but there was little follow up on your part. A “Tell us about Doxa” or “Have you ever worked on a Doxa” and “What have you found when you worked on a Doxa” all would have been interesting. You were a little bit cute today as opposed to being journalistic. Your having lunch, the travails of New York traffic detours or the state of disorder of your companions apartment are not why a reasonable hypothetical viewer would watch your videos. Good models can be found in old KZbin available episodes of Edward R. Murrow’s interviews during the heyday of television and or the interview work of Studs Terkel on the website of either KZbin or WFMT (the educational radio station) in Chicago.This video came off a little bit as if you were trying to shoot your own version of a Seinfeld episode instead of the very fine cinema verity type of work that represents your best work. I love your work but I begged off listening to your review videos because I didn’t think that your personal views about a microbrand type watch were of any significance. Your significance is in trying to document people connected with horology and now the watches in which some of these people choose to deal and trade. I am not crabbing but I am trying to suggest to you that your highest and best contribution to horology is not as another KZbin horological talking head. Ask yourself what would Robert Flaherty and Sergei Eisenstein do if they were charged with doing a show along the intended lines of this show. You don’t have to be totally impersonal but being too overly personal detracts from what you are trying to achieve.

[@jcbsplace]

yeah more of this please, great video

[@MrBacchus18]

good stuff guys, living in the city has its benefits

[@jackshanlin415]

Great video ! What watch is on the thumbnail ?

[@seikorebel7967]

Cool new series I liked it

[@itsKibbleTalksWatches]

Great video guys!!!!

[@testpiloterb1828]

What was the thing the guy had,in his hand when u first got to the booth?

[@petercipriano5659]

Can someone please tell me how to find Maurice and if he has a shop/contact info?

[@shlemp5183]

Where is that location with the vintage Omegas?

[@amiltonpires2557]

Can you share the location of this place via email or something? I'd love to drive down and visit his shop.

[@missclairessa]

I loved listening to his opinions. I only collect vintage.

[@williamtracy4453]

Miss Clairessa Me 2. Got a Patek, Benrus , and Hamilton coming in this week. Then I'm done looking or buying for a while lol the Patek hit my account hard although it was under $7k.

[@seikorebel7967]

Price for the VC?

[@jacobsworkshop3335]

Anyone know the model number of the Lecoultre featured in the video?

[@themasterswordlink]

Where is this located?

[@rikoflishas]

Those watches look so good!

[@ponce1968]

I just bought a Doxa antimagnetique on ebay yesterday.

[@adkreviews6182]

Production value way up. Condensed into :15 or so you'd have a killer intro for individual episodes.

[@mdo5121]

HI GUYS...Does he have a web site? He has quite an inventory

[@kksdndr]

Where is it exactly located?

[@fpjourne7896]

Clock Stock & Barrel whats your email?

[@santfournier]

How lucky with so much choice, here where I live the only choice is online for vintage.

[@ponce1968]

Maurice, where I can find this man selling these awsome vintage watches? you got an address and.or phone number? Thank you

[@superfishing6314]

i have dogma prima 23 old and gold in the side hem

[@seikorebel7967]

Patek on Madison for all those crazy high end complications

[@patricknaswell2686]

Good job. Cool, but how do you know Maurice's stuff is legit?

[@patrickma07]

zed end thats actually fair market value for GF bumper LeCoultres. not "too good to be true"

[@patrickma07]

zed end check out watchrecon.com for forum sales posts. you often see sub $1k vintage LeCoultres. You can also often find slightly more questionable ones on eBay for the same range. In the vintage market, gold filled/plated dress watches are the "least desirable" and thus command the lowest prices compared to their stainless steel sports counterparts.

[@irfann8820]

amazing man

[@lukaskurtansky7180]

Now I have to tell you something my friend. I am bot being biased here about the person you are interviewing at that shop/vintage place but i can tell you that i have spotted very suspicious items there at the display for sale which gave me a clue to what the Man sales there. I do not want to go to detail there but i have noticed on certain brass decoration the green”ish” patina you get after certain time especially with moist contact that did not mach the base “wear and tear”. Now there are so many places that sale the vintage goods and there is so many replicas there=some amateur replicas to the very very high quality replicas. The most important to the Vintage business goods, the long term Full Time vintage business is the person selling the goods. You can not sustain long period of time if you do not understand the principals of the goods you are selling. If you do not understand the difference between the “genuine” & “replica/original state of the good” , you are not going to survive there as you are going be cheated unconsciously the same as you are going to cheat unconsciously. The opposite of the “unaware/amateur” seller is person understanding the principals of the business and obstacles including it. This person has got genuine knowledge about the goods (genuine or non genuine) selling to you. I am not sure which one is more dangerous to buy from as both of them are carrying risk to purchase. The difference there is that one of them has got enough knowledge of the item being sold to you. THE PERSON you interviewed there at the market is described by you as the knowledgeable one , which tells me to TELL YOU TO BE AWARE OF HIM as i have spotted there just by the examining your video sequences in detail to certain items, telling me the nature about this person. He does have non genuine items at his display , which leads you to ask yourself= is he just a gamble ,new in business buying & selling in a good will or is he the knowledgeable one knowing the shady background of his items. You answered it for me, he knows the value of his goods, stay aware, do not buy anything before checking it on internet. I am reasonably sure, there is many watches on display there, not matching the manufacturer catalogue description. AND HE KNOWS ABOUT IT. good luck and please, for those of you reading this, having desire to attack my comment,save your time, I can imagine it all, so if you disagree , just say: YOU IDIOT,!

[@patricknaswell2686]

The Frankenstein and fakes. I'm not sure I could ID them. Is he honest about their histories or is it purely on you to know the watches?

[@patricknaswell2686]

Thanks. Very helpful. Good luck with your channel!

[@manuelmiguel2311]

I only collect overpriced vintage watches like T&H’s NOS omega geneve for $1900

[@agram4700]

Don't you dare speak about vintage Doxas! I don't want the prices to go up.

[@chefaaron77]

Great video, but that music awful

[@ponce1968]

Maurice, where I can find this man selling these awsome vintage watches? you got an address and.or phone number? Thank you