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Chrongraph and Divers watches from 20th Century - Before the crazy prices of today
This is a thread for watches produced in the good old days when you could walk into any any official watch dealers and buy 99% of the range available without a special handshake.
This was my first divers watch, which i bought in 1979 from a Migros supermarket in Switzerland with my pocket money.
Migros is the equivalent of Tesco here, so to be able to buy a swiss made watch in a supermarket with an ETA automatic movement now seems somewhat extraordinary.
I paid around SF140 for it, (I can't remember the exact price), but at that time the FX rate was about 3.5 Franks to £ so it cost around £40
the movement is an ETA 2783 (25 J) and i wound it recently and it started working immidiately. it has a screwdown crown, and is around 44mm (but i've not measured it.)
the photo is as i found it when i got it out of a box for the first time in 10 years. i think it now deserves a clean.
The strap is not original, as the original corroded after i used it in the sea !! so it was replaced with a Seiko strap in the mid 80's
(PS appologies for the sideways image .... it is right way up on my PC, and i don't know how to rotate it on the post)
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Chrongraph and Divers watches from 20th Century - Before the crazy prices of today
Pretty much unthinkable now, and just outside of the OPs time range, but in 2001 I saw this in an ADs window in a shopping centre, walked in and bought it there and then. Don’t get me wrong, I needed to put most of the cost on interest free credit, but the fact of the matter remains that back then (doesn’t really seem that long ago) you could just pop out and buy a sports Rolex!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...df9002412f.jpg
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