Over the weekend, I stopped in to what is probably the best vintage watch window-shopping store in New York, The Aaron Faber Gallery .? There I spotted a watch that I immediately fell in love with, and one that I had really never come across, at least in this particular variation.? The watch was from Angelus, a now-defunct producer of some absolutely killer timepieces from this past century ( here is a little history on the brand ).? The watch is part of the Datalarm line from Angelus, which is, as you can guess, a line of watches that feature both mechanical alarms and date complications.? You can find some Datalarms online for around $1500, and they offer a nice, even less well known alternative to the Vulcain Cricket , another alarm watch from that period.? This particular Datalarm was special though, it was in fact a world-timer.? If you look to the picture at right,? you can see a 24-hour bezel and the names of 24 unique cities surrounding the cream colored dial.? It’s hard enough to find a decent Datalarm, it’s downright impossible to find a Datalarm with a world-time dial.? It really is a striking watch, and a complicated one at that, especially considering just how old this piece is.? One of my favorite attributes of the watch, one which I failed to capture while there unfortunately, was how the crown that controls the alarm hand is signed with a little bell.? Very cool. This watch reminds me a lot of that amazing Breitling Worldtimer we wrote up a while ago, but with an alarm and from a company that no longer exists, it may even be cooler.? No, I didn’t buy this watch, but I did think about it, and something tells me a lot of you will too.? At the very least, it will give you a glimpse into how cool some of these vintage Angelus watches are.? PS – There is another great vintage Angelus for sale here that is really worth looking into, if you prefer a chronograph to a world-timer. ? – Ben

Over the weekend, I stopped in to what is probably the best vintage watch window-shopping store in New York, The Aaron Faber Gallery.? There I spotted a watch that I immediately fell in love with, and one that I had really never come across, at least in this particular variation.? The watch was from Angelus, a now-defunct producer of some absolutely killer timepieces from this past century (here is a little history on the brand).?

The watch is part of the Datalarm line from Angelus, which is, as you can guess, a line of watches that feature both mechanical alarms and date complications.? You can find some Datalarms online for around $1500, and they offer a nice, even less well known alternative to the Vulcain Cricket, another alarm watch from that period.?

This particular Datalarm was special though, it was in fact a world-timer.? If you look to the picture at right,? you can see a 24-hour bezel and the names of 24 unique cities surrounding the cream colored dial.? It’s hard enough to find a decent Datalarm, it’s downright impossible to find a Datalarm with a world-time dial.? It really is a striking watch, and a complicated one at that, especially considering just how old this piece is.? One of my favorite attributes of the watch, one which I failed to capture while there unfortunately, was how the crown that controls the alarm hand is signed with a little bell.? Very cool.

This watch reminds me a lot of that amazing Breitling Worldtimer we wrote up a while ago, but with an alarm and from a company that no longer exists, it may even be cooler.? No, I didn’t buy this watch, but I did think about it, and something tells me a lot of you will too.? At the very least, it will give you a glimpse into how cool some of these vintage Angelus watches are.?

PS – There is another great vintage Angelus for sale here that is really worth looking into, if you prefer a chronograph to a world-timer. ?

- Ben

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