Vintage Rolex

[superstarmar]

What do the gurus think on this one ?
1990 Tritium Dial flat 4...

[Sublovin]

^^ I have the same watch...don’t think it’s vintage.

[superstarmar]

Originally Posted by Sublovin

^^ I have the same watch...don’t think it’s vintage.

Yet ?
Isn’t 30 years considered vintage?
Does a watch have to be 40 or 50 years old
to be considered vintage?

[Juan Luis]

It has to look like my avatar to be considered vintage.


Just kidding.

[motoikkyu]

Many well-expressed opinions, it's hard to say who I agree with most. Especially considering that there are a great many quartz watches made in the 1980s that are being sold as "vintage" these days. My brother informs me that Timex is making updated versions of 1960s Timex watches with modern mechanical movements --these are solidly "retro" and are apparently selling very well. I guess I regard "vintage" as too vague a descriptor for serious use, just a nice adjective: too hard to assign a legal meaning to it. There was a compelling thread a while back about considering the Zenith Daytona "vintage". I have one, and I'd disagree, although there have been several generations of Daytona since those.

[Sublovin]

Originally Posted by superstarmar

Yet ?
Isn’t 30 years considered vintage?
Does a watch have to be 40 or 50 years old
to be considered vintage?

As I said in my post earlier in this thread, I think it’s very subjective. If you want to use the term vintage just to mean a certain number of years old, sure you could call anything vintage. In my opinion the term vintage when referring to Rolex means an era. An era that spans up to when they stopped using plexi crystals on the sport watches. My Sub is from 1990 as well, and it doesn’t fit hose criteria ...Just my opinion

[Fabrice M]

My definition is more accurate I think. For a steel sub. Anything over 20k is vintage : )

[Grandcrew]

Plexi- vintage
Matte with sapphire- transitional
Glossy with sapphire- not vintage

[RolexDave68]

Vintage


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[TuRo]

Same as cars and bikes and guitars for me a rolling 25 years

[Kingface66]

I remember when Happy Days first aired in 1974, and thinking (and I believe correctly) that 1955 (roughly when it was set at the beginning) was both inarguably vintage and steeped in nostalgia. Not even 20 years difference we’re talking.
Now, consider just under twenty years ago today was 2003. Absolutely not vintage. And not even barely nostalgic.
It’s interesting how our collective FEELING of what is vintage really has little to do with the passage of time and more of how much has changed…or not changed.

Or, maybe I’m just old and completely wrong about this!

[Dan S]

Originally Posted by Kingface66

I remember when Happy Days first aired in 1974, and thinking (and I believe correctly) that 1955 (roughly when it was set at the beginning) was both inarguably vintage and steeped in nostalgia. Not even 20 years difference we’re talking.
Now, consider just under twenty years ago today was 2003. Absolutely not vintage. And not even barely nostalgic.
It’s interesting how our collective FEELING of what is vintage really has little to do with the passage of time and more of how much has changed…or both changed.

Or, maybe I’m just old and completely wrong about this!

Well put. It's hard to consider a sapphire-luminova Rolex from the 2000s vintage given that the style has barely changed since then.