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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 484546, member: 25"]GP is a decent quality and quite well known maker but as a tiny lady's watch it is virtually unsalable as a watch. If it is gold then scrap it. Sad to say, but that is the market. Women do not, in general collect watches, and men only collect men's watches. </p><p>Date could be 60s or 70s as a guess, and it would probably be called a cocktail watch; cocktails may be having a comeback but really tiny watches are not.</p><p>I have a suspiscion that men designed these watches and men bought them for women as a symbol of how utterly unimportant it was for the little woman to know what time it was at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 484546, member: 25"]GP is a decent quality and quite well known maker but as a tiny lady's watch it is virtually unsalable as a watch. If it is gold then scrap it. Sad to say, but that is the market. Women do not, in general collect watches, and men only collect men's watches. Date could be 60s or 70s as a guess, and it would probably be called a cocktail watch; cocktails may be having a comeback but really tiny watches are not. I have a suspiscion that men designed these watches and men bought them for women as a symbol of how utterly unimportant it was for the little woman to know what time it was at all.[/QUOTE]
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