Vintage Watch Ads

RJ007 · Jan 10, 2012

Stan's Incredible Military Ad Finds!

http://www.watchtalkforums.info/forums/american-watch-forum/57675.htm

timesofplenty · Jan 19, 2012

mercurym · Jan 20, 2012

1940s Argentinian Movado Ad

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Hi, Folks -

Here's an ad for Movado from a 1940s (1942, I believe) issue of the fashion magazine Para Ti out of Argentina. These mags are treasure troves of incredible artwork and adverts from the WWII era. Enjoy!

mercurym · Jan 20, 2012

Ads from Natl Geographic 1940s and 1950s

The Girard Perregaux is from the May, 1958 Natl. Geographic. The rest are from the Oct. 1947 issue. Love the creative name Elgin came up with for their proprietary metal for making mainsprings; "Elgiloy". Really rolls off the tongue. If I ever have a son, I know what his name will be...

xxjorelxx · Mar 9, 2012

This is a awesome thread! I love these ads. Here's a few I have

RJ007 · Mar 9, 2012

Very cool Jorel!

Nice ads:thumbup:

Monocrom · Mar 13, 2012

timesofplenty said:

Curiosity got the better of me.

There's currently a Holiday Inn Express at that address now.

thumbs · Oct 23, 2012

Vintage watch adverts

Hi, I love all the old American watches, and collect Bulovas. It recently came to light a link to old newspapers around the world, and there are literally millions of old adverts going back 100 years or more, many containing old watch ads. I have seen many Elgin, Wittnauer, Benrus, Waltham etc.etc. ads from 1920's up to 1980's, and as I was only searching for Bulovas, Think what you could find for your favourite watch brand!
Here is the link-Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, so go for it all the US states there, all the little local dailies, hundreds of thousands of ads in millions of papers, easy to search, go look and have some fun!

NAWCC · Oct 25, 2012

If you like old adverts (which I do) and you like Bulova. Here is a pretty rare one from 1957 when Bulova launced in Italian market:

Here is another old one of mine I like:

Enjoy

thumbs · Oct 25, 2012

Great ads, especially the Ingersoll one

NAWCC · Oct 25, 2012

Ok. I will post some more to morrow. I have a few ingersoll original adverts

Thanks
A

RJ007 · Oct 26, 2012

Hey guys... we have a wonderful sticky thread of these fantastic ads
so I merged these into here!

KEEP em coming!!!:thumbup1:

Thumbs up~!!!

CometHunter · Oct 27, 2012

Paul H. said:
.... Was all those Hamiltons shown on a tan pig skin leather band ? Was that what was originally suppied? pjh

Something to keep in mind is that illustrations like that were not meant to be technically correct. The artist was trying to communicate impressions. And he chose colors that he thought were best for conveying those impressions. In magazine ads like that if the strap color in the painting actually matched the strap supplied by the factory it was more likely to be a happy coincidence rather than anything that was intended.