As a person who’s used ricardo(dot)ch (the “Swiss Ebay”) for the past few years to buy vintage watches and watch parts I feel extremely lucky to live in Switzerland. If you know of other places, shops, markets, etc. for vintage watches and or watch parts please leave a comment sharing your secret knowledge! This post is not an advertisement for ricardo, however, I am including a link to my youtube channel which like my collecting is just a hobby at this point. In this video I discuss the sources and prices I paid for two dozen inexpensive vintage watches including watches made by Seiko, IWC, Omega, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Lanco, ETA, Eterna, Consul, Girard Perregaux, Bermi, and others – most of which I purchased on ricardo. These are watches that I either have done restoration work on myself, paid Rolex in Geneva to revise, or plan to do restoration work on. My past restoration work has included case cleaning, reluming, water sealing, and one complete rebuild of an IWC Cal 44. In the future I plan to go deeper into movement cleaning and lubrication. The video below is only about buying, but my channel also includes amateur watchmaking, the Swiss watchmaking industry, and the history of watchmaking in Switzerland. If that interests you please check out my other videos and subscribe.
[Where I Buy Vintage Watches: Sources and Prices – Seiko, IWC, Patek Philippe, Omega, Rolex and more…](https://youtu.be/knXYJznQnhA)
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I should note that the website [movengo.ch](https://movengo.ch) is an auction website created by a watch dealer in Zurich who used to sell on ricardo as Swiss Time Arts
Also, [watchys.ch](https://watchys.ch) is a parts dealer in Meyrin (Geneva). They sell on ricardo and they also have a web-shop with lots of spare parts including movements, dials, hands, tools, and lots of movement parts