Sonning Vintage Watches

We are working with a UK based collector who has asked us to market a selection of his watches. As part of the offer each watch has had a full service and refurbishment by the UK’s leading watchmaker, Steven Hale Watch Restoration. Each watch will come with a 2 year guarantee from Steve Hale and a lifetime guarantee on the authenticity by Sonning Vintage Watches.

Vacheron Constantin are one of the most respected watchmakers in the World and are recognised as the first brand to produce a wristwatch as against pocket watch (men had pocket watches and ladies wristwatches). Founded by a 24 year old, Jean-Marc Vacheron, in 1755. They’re known as part of the holy trinity of Patek and AP…

This oversize, 35.5mm across, solid 18ct rose gold model would’ve looked huge in the 40’s when a gents watch averaged 31mm… The rare and very desirable ‘tear drop’ lug case is in near faultless condition. The original and we believe untouched Vacheron signed champagne dial is classically late art-deco. The applied rose gold Roman numeral hour markers with rose ‘dot’ markers along with the rose gold stick hands and sub-second create a stunning look. The original Vacheron signed manual wind movement is again in excellent condition and has just been fully serviced by Stephen Hale (around £850). The watch sits on a new, dark brown, calf skin strap with non-Vacheron rose gold plated buckle. We also have an extract of archives from Vacheron confirming it was manufactured in 1942.

We only find 1 or 2 of these a year and they are amongst the most desirable watches in our range.

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This oversize, 35.5mm across, solid 18ct rose gold model would’ve looked huge in the 40’s when a gents watch averaged 31mm… The rare and very desirable ‘tear drop’ lug case is in near faultless condition. The case measures 35.5mm across, excluding the crown and 42mm long including the lugs.

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The original Vacheron signed manual wind movement is again in excellent condition and has just been fully serviced by Stephen Hale (around £850). The movement is signed ‘Vacheron & Constantin’, ‘Geneve’ and the movement number is ‘432069’.

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As with the majority of pre-owned watches that are 10 years or older, this particular watch does not come with its original box (we are including a genuine Jaeger box from the 1960’s) or paperwork. The watch is 100% genuine and rest assured we provide a lifetime guarantee on the authenticity and provenance of all the watches we sell.

Although there is no original paperwork, we do provide a written invoice and 3 page insurance valuation with the pictures of the watch and all available reference numbers. We also give a 12 month warranty on all our watches. We also stock a good selection of vintage watch boxes to help complete your purchase.

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Sonning Vintage Watches are one of the largest prestige brand vintage watch retailers on the Internet carrying stock of around £900,000; we’ve sold over 3,000 vintage watches across the world since our formation in 2009. We’re based in Berkshire and Nottingham and spend 1- 2 days a week in London. Whilst we’re an Internet business we do ‘show’ 90% of our watches prior to sale and travel across England to meet prospective buyers.

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We provide a lifetime guarantee on the authenticity and provenance of all our watches and come with a full printed Receipt of Sale and Insurance Valuation. Purchasing from SVW gives you the protection and reassurance of buying from an incorporated company with outstanding customer testimonials.

We provide a high quality box and use the Royal Mail Special Delivery for the UK and DHL for overseas sales. They are insured for the full purchase value.

See what our customers say – 100% positive feedback on all our sales sites and over 40% of our customers buy again or refer us!

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We use the Royal Mail’s Guaranteed next day service for UK sales and DHL for all overseas shipping. All our watches are fully serviced, but prior to couriering each one will undergo a 3 day pre-delivery check to ensure the watch is in perfect condition.

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This is a beautiful example of a watch from one of horology’s most famous names and will, if history is any judge, provide an excellent financial investment as well as a possession to treasure and enjoy. I will provide an insurance valuation in excess of my asking price. Please appreciate the difficulty of photographing this piece, it looks even better in real life. Subject to your location I’ll happily show the watch.

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