Collectible timepieces?
It's not really what you'd expect to find when browsing Twitter.
However, this is where a new generation, rather young and urban, of all kinds of tocantes buffs can be found.
What models do they find there?
On profiles with names that smack of watchmaking (@PetiteHorloge, @BelleMecanique, @LaTocante…), we unearth a Movado or a Bulova as well as a Gruen Curvex, a Lip Mach 2000 and a King Seiko 5621 from 1970. All of this in good condition, on a bracelet, generally serviced, for a few hundred euros.
“It was Pierre, from @BelleMecanique, with whom I share a passion for old watches, who told me about Twitter and the small active community there,
confides Rémy, thirty years old behind the @PetiteHorloge account.
So I opened my profile a few months ago.
Beyond this circle of aficionados, there was hardly a professional watchmaker with pieces for sale
.
I quickly made people happy with my watches...
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