Hi all!

Here's just a pic of my 69ST back from service. This guy is a magician. He made the original crystal look like new. Yes it's 45 years old. I really need a DON bezel. For the time being it has a 1171 bracelet with the trapezoid logo that I found the other day at the flee market in Paris. Enjoy! (and yes the dial is all original; untouched)
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Wow, so you're saying that is the original crystal from 47 years ago?? If so, that guy is a magician if that watch didn't just sit in a safe for the entire time. I so much as look at a railing and my hesalite crystal gets scratched.

 

yes the original one with the narrow logo! Believe it or not. Really this guy made a splendid polish. the crystal was not RIP but rather used.

 

Is the caseback on that a -69 or a -68?

Nice on the original crystal! I have a -71 with its original, only a few years behind yours and still very rare

 

Prices are rocketting my friend. I found this watch last summer. The guy sold it to me without the Bezel and was thus a bit shy to sell it to me for 2000 euros. I thinks the original crystal alone will soon cost several hundreds bucks. I don't speak about the original crown... I saw one at 300 bucks the other day.
PS : 145.022-69ST

 

Well sir, you got a fantastic deal. Even if you have to pay for a DON bezel, you'll probably still be ahead.

 

yep sky!
I'm being patient for the Bezel. They sometimes pop up in France for a few hundreds. Cuaght this one for 100 euros and it has a gorgeous blueish greyish patina.

 

Hmm, back should be -68. What's the serial number?

Of course, for EUR 2000 and that dial (seriously: ) I don't think it matters!

 

it's a transitionnal abrod520. I don't remember if the SN is 26... I Don't feel like checking tonight.

 

Yeah they ever-discussed 69 transitional. They were made seemingly, just an unexplored niche in the switch from 321 to 861.

 

i'm sure it's all original. Will give you some details later on. Time to go to sleep in Paris.

cheers guys.

Edit : I must have been tired yesterday late. It'as a 68ST not 69

 

There you go, that's what it should be It's beautiful either way!

 

My 68 says hi

 

You have un icredibly good taste

 

Beautiful!

 

thanks baz!

 

very nice! who's your magician?

 

it'as a guy that runs a store of spare parts in Paris. he's a graduate from Neuchâtel if I remember well. Seing the result I gave him my SM 300 for the same job.
You'll never guess how much he took for full service of the movement + polisshing the crystal.