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Flea Market Finds- Vintage Timex 21


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On 4/14/2018 at 3:26 AM, ramos3120 said:

Recent pic upsimageproxy.php?img=&key=77f0dcc5ac0f9d5b at the local flea market.

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After a little clean up:PSX_20180414_002342.thumb.jpg.3d2825932e662007e7dbbda375a8f9e7.jpg

Both running strong.

Looks great - 1963 and 1964 21 Jewels with #74 movement inside.

 

The other two shown are named Viscount - aka self wind or automatic  the one with the broken lug is 1958 or 1959.

the other mid 70's is my guess. 

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On 4/14/2018 at 5:35 AM, Watchtime said:

great find, I have some myself and also some Kelton watches which look similar.

Kelton was a sub brand of US Time and Timex.  Be on the look out for the Kelton skin diver series.  Very nice to have in a collection.

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