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Richard_C
·A while back I started a thread in the modern Omega section, about getting my Seamaster Polaris fixed. All done an in use now. While it was away, and in any case fairly regularly before, and for about 20 years up to the early 1990s, I was wearing my Avia Swissonic.
A pre-quartz battery watch, not the same technology as the "hummimg' Bulova" I bought for my wife a couple of years later, but possibly interesting to some. They never were marketed as expensive high end watches, I think GBP 25 or so when new so equivalent to about GBP 260 now. You do see them for sale for about GBP 50. I think the mechanism might have found its way into other brands. It was made in Switzerland.
It was a 21st birthday/graduation present and the watch I wore to work back in the days when 'office workers' wore suits and smart shirts. The £25 was a big deal for my parents back then, I think my father wanted me to have something different, new, modern, the future .... I fitted a different strap, but recently found and fitted the original. It's a bit uncomfortable on my wrist with that so I spent GBP 13 on a blue leather one, maybe not authentic but for me it makes it much nicer to wear. Simple design, big smooth lump of stainless steel. The face / dial is unadorned but looks good to me.
Phoots attached with original and new leather strap.
I said in the title it was 'remarkable'. Not because of value, rarity or even accuracy (about 1 minute a week +) but it was a 21st present, so it's 52 years old, and every year or so I put a new battery in, every few years I give it a polish, and it works, never failed, never needed fixing. I suppose I should get it cleaned and lubricated but its been OK so far ......
A pre-quartz battery watch, not the same technology as the "hummimg' Bulova" I bought for my wife a couple of years later, but possibly interesting to some. They never were marketed as expensive high end watches, I think GBP 25 or so when new so equivalent to about GBP 260 now. You do see them for sale for about GBP 50. I think the mechanism might have found its way into other brands. It was made in Switzerland.
It was a 21st birthday/graduation present and the watch I wore to work back in the days when 'office workers' wore suits and smart shirts. The £25 was a big deal for my parents back then, I think my father wanted me to have something different, new, modern, the future .... I fitted a different strap, but recently found and fitted the original. It's a bit uncomfortable on my wrist with that so I spent GBP 13 on a blue leather one, maybe not authentic but for me it makes it much nicer to wear. Simple design, big smooth lump of stainless steel. The face / dial is unadorned but looks good to me.
Phoots attached with original and new leather strap.
I said in the title it was 'remarkable'. Not because of value, rarity or even accuracy (about 1 minute a week +) but it was a 21st present, so it's 52 years old, and every year or so I put a new battery in, every few years I give it a polish, and it works, never failed, never needed fixing. I suppose I should get it cleaned and lubricated but its been OK so far ......
