Antique Watch Shopping, where to go?

honestly the best luck i've had under 500 was at the antik- und trödelmarkt on fehrbelliner platz, it's a saturday thing near the u-bahn. smaller crowd than mauerpark so less competition and i've seen a few dealers who specialize in older german watches, think junghans and glashütte stuff from the 60s. also there's a little shop called zeitlos in prenzlauer berg on schönhauser allee that has a window case of vintage pieces, prices are fair and the owner knows his stuff if you ask about the movement

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For under 500, check out the shops around Linienstraße in Mitte. There's a spot called Uhren Schmidt that sometimes has interesting vintage pieces in that range, though it's more of a repair shop with a small display case. Also worth a trip to the Flohmarkt am Mauerpark on a Sunday, but get there early before the dealers pick through everything.

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yeah check out the antique watch shop near Boxhagener Platz in Friedrichshain, they have a small selection under 500 sometimes, mostly older swiss stuff. also the flea market at Arkonaplatz on sundays is smaller than Mauerpark but less picked over, found a decent Laco there once

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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