Value in Vintage Timex

Timex is a brand that is now synonymous with your child'd first watch. Timex is however with a huge amount of provenance and history, and the vintage market has seemed to neglect alot of Timex pieces.

Movement 

The brand is now very well known for their cheap quartz watches, but at one time Timex was producing sturdy automatic and self-winding movements. Now these movements were nothing elegant, but they were functional, and meant to last. When the quartz crisis hit, the brand immediately took in quartz, but it seems that now they are realizing that the market is calling for mechanical movements. 

Aesthetics

Now these watches have this special sort of since to them since production of these mechanical versions was literally halted as soon as the quartz crisis hit. It's like the watch is a real time machine, with 60s and 70s quarks that make it seem like it was your grandfathers watch.  Personally if your looking for that really vintage look, and the name is not your biggest concern, Timex might be one of your better options in a niche sort of way.
   

Value 

These watches are not rare by any means, but a good example is fairly hard to come by. Now we aren't talking anything near vintage day date money, which makes the value so astonishing. You can get a fair quality working vintage Timex for around $100. You've got the history. You've got the movement. And you've for sure got the price.