Introducing Heritage 1854, a Comprehensive Vintage Timex Resource
If you?re a Timex enthusiast and spend any time at all on Instagram, you?re likely familiar with the work of Ark Zaydman. He runs the @heritagetimex account, and has built up an impressive following posting photos of classic watches from the Timex archive, and telling the story of the brand. As of today he?s launching a new venture dubbed Heritage 1854, a full featured website that one could easily imagine wiling away hours on sifting through mountains of Timex data.
The goal of Heritage 1854 is to be the number one resource for Timex collectors and enthusiasts on the internet, and to serve as an ?online museum? to the brand. According to Zaydman, Heritage 1854 will include resources for collectors of vintage Timex to repair, restore, and better understand their watches.Â
Heritage 1854 is a comprehensive vintage Timex resource
Zaydman has been involved in the Timex community since 2016, and from the start he noticed that the brand and community were somehow underserved. ?I very quickly realized there was a large disconnect between the horological community and what is essentially one of the only surviving American watch brands,? says Zaydman. ?Yes, the community gets excited when Timex does a fun reissue, but overall, there isn’t that same reverence that other, much younger brands get.? Zaydman, through his Instagram account, takes Timex and the brand?s history seriously. ?History and knowledge dies unless someone puts the work in to collect and preserve i...
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