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Beautiful watch! I own over 30 vintage VCs, and I have extracts on all of them so I'm accumulating my own little database of manufacturing dates. The serial number on your movement dates it to roughly 1950. If you want precise info, I recommend purchasing an extract from VC which will have this info

Hi. I own multiple vintage VCs from this era. Based on the serial number on the case, this watch was probably produced in 1945. It's important to confirm that the movement serial number is also from 1945, but I couldn't read it in your photos. The case and movement serial numbers will not match. The

When I was visiting Westtime in L.A. recently the salesman there showed me the watch he was wearing which was as wide as his wrist. He said that once you use a large watch you'll never want to go back to the older generation of small watches, so he doesn't exect the fashion to ever revert. I think t

Hello again, everyone. I just finished reading a fascinating article about the differences between the VC caliber 1400 and the Piaget 430P. It appeared in Watchtime in 2007 and is archived at their site. They discuss the problems of building such a thin movement, and some of the history behind these

Sorry, I'm new to this. Please forgive the double posting. Here's the movement I meant to include in my previous posting.

Bill - Thanks for your response and for the excellent link. Yes, I had found that link earlier and the photos in it are excellent. I'm attaching a photo of the 1132 movement from the ebay listing that's higher quality than the one in the VC group link. Feel free to add this photo to the list of cali

Hello everybody. I'm new to this forum and have been spending many hours pouring over past postings. I recently fell in love with a gorgeous VC 1132.2 that I saw was already sold on ebay. Initially, its thin case (and my research here) made me think that it was a 1003 caliber, but on closer examinat