Watches of Lancashire

Watches of Lancashire An independent qualified watchmakers specialising in vintage and pre-owned watches. We have over 30

02/06/2026

Some watches whisper. The Santos kicks the door down. 🔩

Unboxing a 1999 Cartier Santos Chronograph — and it’s everything that makes this design a legend. Square bezel, exposed screws, blued steel hands, Roman numerals. Clean, confident, unmistakably Cartier.

Here’s the part most people don’t know: those screws aren’t decoration. Cartier exposed them on purpose, inspired by the bolted construction of early aircraft. Form following function before it was cool.

18ct gold and steel · Sapphire crystal · Fully serviced with box and papers · Two-year guarantee

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27/05/2026

In the 1960s, Jaeger-LeCoultre built a watch designed to puzzle the eye. The hands of the Mystery appear to float across the dial, with no visible link to the movement turning beneath them. A piece of theatre achieved through genuine mechanical ingenuity.

This is the 18ct white gold Mystery, reference 615-208, from JLC’s golden era of American-market creations. A 33.5mm case, black glass dial, and the calibre K480 mechanical movement underneath. Plexi crystal, on a brown ostrich strap with pink buckle. The proportions are restrained, the effect is anything but.

JLC has developed over 1,200 in-house calibres in its history — few houses can claim that kind of technical depth. The Mystery is one of its quieter flourishes, more miniature mechanical art than wristwatch.
Fully serviced and ready to wear. 24-month guarantee. £3,000.

DM to enquire.

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24/05/2026

In 1969, the Speedmaster went to the Moon on a manual calibre. By the mid-eighties, Omega was asking a different question: what if the same watch could run itself?

The answer sits here. The 1984 Speedmaster reference 345.0809 — known to collectors as the “Speedymoon,” a name Omega never officially gave it. It earned the nickname by sitting exactly between two worlds: the hand-wound Professional Moonwatch worn on the lunar missions, and the automatic Speedmasters that came later.

What makes this reference worth knowing is the combination. An automatic chronograph movement, calibre 866, paired with a moon phase and date complication — unusual territory for a Speedmaster. The tachymeter bezel and case proportions keep the silhouette honest to the original, while the moon phase nods, quietly, to where the line earned its name.

• Reference 345.0809
• Year: 1984
• Calibre 866, automatic chronograph
• 42mm steel case
• Black dial, moon phase and date
• Plexi crystal
• Deployment clasp on bracelet

Fully serviced, supplied with the original box and instructions, and backed by our 24-month guarantee.

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20/05/2026

Sold. Off to a new collector.

A 1963 Omega Seamaster, reference 135.003-62-SC, now archived.

The Seamaster line began in 1948 — not as a dive watch, but as a dress-oriented, water-resistant piece drawn from the military watches Omega built during the Second World War. This one sits firmly in that lineage. A 35mm steel case, slim profile, black gilt dial with applied markers, plexi crystal and the mechanical calibre 286 beneath.

Uncluttered, well-proportioned, and the kind of design that doesn’t date.

Fully serviced before sale and shipped with the standard 24-month guarantee.

Looking for something similar? DM to enquire or browse the current stock at watchesoflancashire.com.

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Four watches. One purpose.On the bench today: a pair of Heuer Yacht-Timers, an Empire Yacht-Timer, and a Cowes-signed sa...
17/05/2026

Four watches. One purpose.

On the bench today: a pair of Heuer Yacht-Timers, an Empire Yacht-Timer, and a Cowes-signed sailing stopwatch — all built around the five minutes before a regatta start gun.

Yacht timers are unlike any other stopwatch. The numbers run backwards. The colours exist for a reason — instant legibility on a wet deck, in poor light, with seconds deciding whether a boat crosses the line a winner or a penalty.

Servicing these is its own discipline. Pin-lever and Swiss-lever movements. Brittle enamel. Original colour discs that cannot be reprinted. Crowns that double as pushers. Cases that were waterproof when Harold Wilson was in office.

No shortcuts. No replacement parts unless the original is beyond saving.

A watch that has counted down the start of a thousand races deserves nothing less.

15/05/2026

Built for the five-minute countdown before a yacht race starts.

The 1970s Breitling Chronomat Regatta 7651 is not a general-purpose chronograph. It was engineered around a single moment in competitive sailing — the start sequence — where seconds decide the race before it has begun.

A 47mm steel case. Black dial, silver sub-dials. Calibre 11 automatic. Plexi glass softened by half a century.

A watch with a job. And one that did it well.
Available now through Watches of Lancashire.

12/05/2026

Omega Seamaster 135.005.

A linen dial that catches the light differently every time you look down. Steel case at 33.5mm — the proportion collectors are quietly returning to. Calibre 600 manual-wind, fully serviced, ready for another lifetime on the wrist.

Two years’ guarantee. One of one on our bench right now.

£1,800. Link in bio.

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07/05/2026

Born on a polo field. Engineered to flip.

In 1931, British officers in India needed a watch that could survive the chukka. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s answer: a case that turns on itself, presenting a solid steel back to the mallet.
Nearly a century on, the mechanism remains unchanged.

The 2015 Reverso, ref. 277.8.62 — silver dial, blued hands, sapphire crystal, mechanical movement. Original box and papers. Fully serviced.

Available now — link in bio.

03/05/2026

Some watches simply tell time. Others carry a story.

Unboxing the 1970 Breitling Cosmonaute, ref. 0819 — the 24-hour chronograph developed with astronaut Scott Carpenter and worn aboard Mercury-Atlas 7 in 1962. One of the first Swiss wristwatches in orbit.

Stainless steel. Venus 178 hand-wound movement. Original box and papers. Fully serviced.

Now available — link in bio.

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02/05/2026

Marking the anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s passing.

Coming soon to Watches of Lancashire: the TAG Heuer S/EL Chronograph — the very reference Senna wore through his peak years at McLaren.

A piece of motorsport history. Watch this space.

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