Thread: What types of watches do you like?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Welcome back.

Thanks, and this is perfect, I was going to message you Big,I know your the resident watch expert, and I wanted to give you a head start, I have two watches that were my father's, his favorites as he had two of them, have you ever heard of Paul Buret? They are wind-up alarm watches, and I haven't been able to find anything about them. I'll give you a day or two before I post the pictures. Have I stumped the master?

It's an old Swiss Watch brand going way back. Some say there was some Russian connection at some point. They are probably best known for the alarm models but still a minor player in the industry.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

It's an old Swiss Watch brand going way back. Some say there was some Russian connection at some point. They are probably best known for the alarm models but still a minor player in the industry.

Wow I'm impressed, that's the only information I held back, that he was a Russian jeweler. And that took awhile. Very impressed. And you say there still in business?

No they are long out of business. Some spell the name as Buhre. I think folks confuse them with Buren which is an old English/Swiss maker long out of business and Burett which is an outfit bought by Samsung a few years ago. They make Swiss made watches and are in business these days.

Actually Buren was connected to Hamilton and Buren is one of those brands where lately some dude bought the name and started making watches under that brand again.

I gotta bow to the master, I thought I knew a lot about watches, but as I said, bowing to the master, really good pull about an obscure brand. Just giving you your props...

Request to move this to the watch thread?

Vostok Classica, my only watch.

Oh the Russians make some wonderful things. Thanks for sharing! What is the vintage?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh the Russians make some wonderful things. Thanks for sharing! What is the vintage?

I bought it new from Meranom (Vostok factory outlet) so it's recent production. They only make the Classica in small runs every now and again so I jumped on it. Was thinking about the recently reintroduced Timex Marlin Handwound but the Classica seemed better quality movement. My dream watch is a Junghans Max Bill Handwound, bit more pricey though.

Timex tends to use the 21 jewel Myota mvmt which is a basic workhorse mvmt. They do use the better 24 jewel mvmt in their few better watches but they are closer to around $500. That's a lot for a Timex.

I used to have a sporty Russian Poljot. It kept good time but was just too massive for me.