A Night With The Museum

Back in June, I was scrolling through Facebook marketplace when I noted that someone had posted this Movado Museum watch for sale for $50. This was a little higher than my traditional $36 spending limit. But here’s the thing, the reason I came up with the $36 cap in the first place is because we went on a road trip to Pittsburgh once and visited a thrift shop that was selling a mechanical Museum with a Zenith movement and I passed it up because I thought $36 was too much.

Actually let me go back a little further. When I was a young intern, my editor Kate wore a black Movado Museum watch. To me, she was the height of sophistication so I swore that one day I too would wear one.

Let’s jump back to Pittsburgh now. I regretted cheeping out on the timepiece and went back to the shop the next day. But alas it was gone. So I gave myself a new vintage watch spending limit: 36 Buckaroos. I’ve got a lot of amazing watches using this number. Once I even found a beat up quartz museum at the Salvation Army for $6 (the mineral crystal was so scratched up, however, that I never wore it and ended up selling it because replacing it would have cost a small fortune).

So now $50 is my new thrift shop watch limit. I figure with inflation and everything that it’s not too outrageous.