Ladies Silver Bulova

$80.00      #31-8

10kt White Gold  Black Band BULOVA  2nd hand  VINTAGE  Very Unique

$275.00     #128-04

Alberts Antique Clocks sells  wrist watches & pocket watches, as well as all the many hundreds of clocks, it does.   Citizen, Rolex, Omega, Seiko, DKNY, Swiss Army, Casio, Cartier, Gucci, Movado, Nike, Invicta, Bulova, TAG, Hamilton, Breitling, TAG Heuer, Concord, Tissot, Skagen, ESQ, Pulsar, Luminox, Ebel and more.   Baume Mercier has been responsible for some of the most innovative technological breakthroughs in the science of women’s watch making.

Albert’s Antique Clocks

Because most watches lack a striking mechanism, such as a bell or gong, to announce the passage of time, they are properly called timepieces, rather than clocks.

A watch is a timepiece or portable clock that displays the time and sometimes the day, date, time and year.  In past centuries, these often took the form of pocket watches, which today are seldom carried or worn. In modern usage, watch is usually a contraction of wristwatch, a name for the most popular style of timekeeping device worn on the wrist.

Before the inexpensive miniaturization that became possible in the 20th Century, most watches were pocket watches, which had covers and were carried separately, often in a pocket and attached to a watch chain or fob.

Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches used mainly for timekeeping are electronic watches with quartz movements. The most accurate watches have radio-controlled movements that are miniaturized, portable versions of radio clocks. Expensive, collectable watches valued more for their workmanship and aesthetic appeal than for simple timekeeping, often have purely mechanical movements and are powered by springs, even though mechanical movements are less accurate than more affordable quartz movements.

In the 21st Century, technological advances in metallurgy, composite materials development and physical vapor deposition greatly influence watch design and manufacturing. Solid stainless steel, titanium, tungsten carbide, carbon fiber, high-tech ceramic and ion plating processes dominate a considerable market share of today's modern watch-making industry. Sapphire Crystals are often incorporated to complement and enhance the durability of a quality watch.

Purely mechanical watches are still popular, although they are most commonly seen among medium priced watches such as Fortis, Omega, Rolex and Tag Heuer and expensive watches like Patek Phillipe, Vacheron Constantin, Ulysse Nardin and Audemars Piguet. Their superb craftsmanship accounts for much of the attraction of purely mechanical watches.