a vintage clock and replica Omega 2812.30.37 watch shop just down the street from my hotel

While in Dresden last week, I stumbled upon a vintage clock and replica Omega 2812.30.37 watch shop just down the street from my hotel.Aside from the odd Longines and a case full of new Sinns, the place was filled with relics from the Cold War, when the proud watch companies of Glashütte were expropriated by the East German government and a single watch company formed – Glashütte Uhrenbetriebe, or GUB.

After struggling through pleasantries with the shop owner in my rusty university German, one piece in his display case caught my eye – a Glashütte Spezimatic from the mid-Seventies.Right out of a time capsule, it still had caseback and replica Omega 2563.75 watch crown stickers and nary a scratch.I knew I had to have it as a fitting souvenir of my visit to Saxony.The Spezimatic is a classically-sized (36mm) watch, and under a high domed acrylic crystal, it sports a creamy time-only dial with some very funky, non-Eastern Bloc-looking, numerals at 12 and 6.Look familiar?

Embodying an ideal blend of luxury and performances, they are endowed with all the assets of exceptional sports watches: screw-locked crown and screwed in caseback, scratchresistant sapphire crystals glareproofed on both sides, replica Tissot T010.417.17.031.01 Men's watch rotating rider-tab bezel, water resistance to 1,000 feet (300 meters) for the Cockpit and 330 feet (100 meters) for the Cockpit Lady.Both models are available in steel, in a two-tone version, in steel and rose gold as well as a precious rose gold version – with optional gem-set bezel on both steel and gold variations. Via the Breitling site.