Hamilton Cambridge sold tonight

[daxtellgt6]

I was watching this one (definitely not a bidder) and I knew it would fetch a good price. The auction just ended and it went for $5,655.55!

This seller has some really rare/scarce watches and they seem to be commanding some premium prices from a quick look at completed auctions. I imagine someone here has some familiarity with them. I won't list the name so as not to violate any forum rules, but send me a PM if you want or need the name.

Nice looking Cambridge - first one I've seen on the bay.

[Vintagehamiltons]

I was watching it very closely because I snagged one from eBay about five years ago at a bargain Buy it Now price of $750. I'm pretty sure this is the first completed auction for one since. I had an idea of what it was worth, but now I know! For just an instant I thought about listing mine, but won't. It's a neat watch and extremely rare with only 209 produced in yellow gold and 357 in white. I'm sure there are more, but I know of five that exist.

[daxtellgt6]

Tom,

Yours is a beauty! I certainly wouldn't part with it...

[ribrd7282]

I was watching it very closely because I snagged one from eBay about five years ago at a bargain Buy it Now price of $750. I'm pretty sure this is the first completed auction for one since. I had an idea of what it was worth, but now I know! For just an instant I thought about listing mine, but won't. It's a neat watch and extremely rare with only 209 produced in yellow gold and 357 in white. I'm sure there are more, but I know of five that exist.

That is drop dead gorgeous!

[Endicott]

Wow, don't sell it, that's such a nice one. I would leave it in the collection knowing that I made a bargain and, well, two sold over one week is enough. Three may seem a bit "inflationary" Amazing design and it makes the Turner 4 years later a kind of "poor man's Cambridge".

Besides a little question. Do you know how many Judsons were sold over, say the last two years? I have not seen one but there may have slipped some though my sight. There was one out there for a short time with the black enemal dial (was, because I took it for the 90 Euro. Could not resist the urge for a nice enemal dial). I am curious how much of the two tone is still on it, since it was hard to tell from the pics. But I think it has a bit more patina and the butler is a bit bleeched out like the one on one of your Merritts.

[daxtellgt6]

Do you know how many Judsons were sold over, say the last two years? I have not seen one but there may have slipped some though my sight. There was one out there for a short time with the black enemal dial (was, because I took it for the 90 Euro. Could not resist the urge for a nice enemal dial). I am curious how much of the two tone is still on it, since it was hard to tell from the pics. But I think it has a bit more patina and the butler is a bit bleeched out like the one on one of your Merritts.

Markus,

I have one that I picked up a few months ago in a buy it now. It is in really nice shape, but unfortunately has stopped running (though listing said it ran fine) so I will need to have it serviced. Since then, I have seen at least 2 others go by, but before that it seemed a rarity, that's why I jumped on the one I bought.

[Vintagehamiltons]

The Judson was only listed in the 1940 catalog and I see maybe a half dozen a year, so it's a somewhat scarce model. The two-tone enamel dial is even moreso.

[rlayer]

I bought a Judson in October, when I negotiated down a "Buy It Now" price. Interestingly, I bought it at almost the same time I bought a Medwick, another "one year wonder."

[daxtellgt6]

I bought a Judson in October, when I negotiated down a "Buy It Now" price. Interestingly, I bought it at almost the same time I bought a Medwick, another "one year wonder."

I got my Judson in January, and just picked up a Medwick last week! It really is in pretty good condition; the dial is a bit stained and has the expected wear on the lug shoulders [not too bad], but the case is in remarkable condition (I think) - all for $47 - and it runs! I picked up a NOS glass crystal today and will send it off to be serviced...

[Endicott]

Markus,

I have one that I picked up a few months ago in a buy it now. It is in really nice shape, but unfortunately has stopped running (though listing said it ran fine) so I will need to have it serviced.

Something I always mistrust is when the sellers say it was recently serviced or runs fine. You never know what they understand as "recently" or fine. Sure it can run fine after it was in a box for years and they wind it up now just a little bit. But does it then runs fine during a longer period and a normal day "work" and is there still enough lubrication in the grade? Nothing is more worse than letting a nice grade being ruined through running dry for a long period of time. Then there is also the problem of shipping/transport. You never know how good the postal people treated the package, how bad the road was where they drove it and so on ... I have seen workers at an airport treating the cargo boxes like some kind of football and since that I think a nice watch would surely suffer from such treatments.
I always try to give my new watches to my watchmaker after I received them. Better to have it checked one time too often.

Thinking about the last sold ones, maybe I have not looked closely enough into the auctions and mistook some Judsons for Heywards