These small vintage Montres (Watches) with clear dial

1. These small vintage Montres (Watches) with clear dial I would like to pay tribute to those that nobody talks about, these charms that we still find a few dozen balls away in flea markets, in the middle of shapeless heaps thrown on tables or in plastic boxes initially intended for cookies more than for Montres (Watches).Those who sometimes do not even have a mark, but who tell the time anyway if we ask them nicely, which has obviously not happened for a few decades for the less fortunate among them. These discreet Montres that nobody wants share two recurring common points which give them the unenviable privilege of going perfectly unnoticed: they are generally too small and their dial is clear; one of those shades of light that we no longer even bother to name because they are all so banal: silver, beige, eggshell, ivory, even ... white, like the ceiling of a bedroom. hospital or, in the best-case scenario, the tiling of a bathtub. Not really ideal for standing out against the hordes of more or less colorful pandas that delight lucky antique dealers and their wealthy clients against the backdrop of the unanimous enthusiasm of “real” enthusiasts and other influencers of my kind. Various white, therefore (with rare exceptions, often black; banality loves extremes), but especially small. Small as in "ladies' watches", which is certainly not problematic in itself, but neither does it help the testosterone barge to project this tiny three hands with a white dial (broken, cream?) Onto their wrist, mounted on some crumpled leather, placed on the table of a careless second-hand dealer with the elegance of a bowl on a dirty sidewalk. The unfathomable misery of watchmaking anonymity White and small: it got off to a bad start (to put it mildly). Even when you're called Omega , Longines or Grand Seiko, you don't rate much when you're white and short. A few hundred bullets, at best, for the name on the dial and spare parts. Moreover, even to afford a Vacheron Constantin , an Audemars Piguet or a vintage Rolex without selling an organ (or of little necessity), you have to choose it small and with a clear dial. It's like in life: unless you have a name, little white people go unnoticed. If a big name can at a pinch save a small watch with a clear dial, it's another story with a lesser known brand, disappeared or… no brand at all. Yes, it is possible: an unbranded watch. But is it possible, really? Does an unbranded watch have any value in this cruel and mercantile world that robs everything that has no name? You have to tell me. Take a look at this tiny anonymous watch, whose dial draws up an inventory as complete as it is boring in shades of beige and gray, just brightened up by a blue peripheral calendar, its red pointer and two apertures for the day and the month. An old Neuchâtel watchmaker almost apologized for giving it to me for the astronomical sum of CHF 130.- when an Oris Big Crown Pointer Date costs ten times more… second-hand. The latter is undoubtedly worth them, but is my beautiful stranger worth ten times less when she offers two additional complications? You have to tell me. Better still: this Eterna Reveils from the beginning of the 20th century, whose patented movement is quite simply the first alarm clock for a wristwatch in the world. Its purchase price? Forty bullets. It is so

2. little that we can afford to write it out in full. So small, beige and unknown that the salesman thought it was broken for mistaking the needle for setting the alarm clock with a second hand which, as a result, was not trotting. What a culpable lack of love! This almost century-old petite shows more than its purchase price suggests, with its cute little alarm clock that sings less well than a Westminster chime but nonetheless sizzles appropriately charming for its age.