Very crisp watch 👍 Dial is in wonderful condition, bet that thing radiates like Chernobyl. City-Bravur was registered in 1941 in Stockholm, but City Bravur (without the hyphen) was registered 1953 in Biel. So a Swedish origin story with City?
I found my late father in laws well worn watch last summer. Instead of throwing it back in the drawer I got curious.
The AS 1123 1124 movement ran ok, so I bought a new strap and chrystal for it.
As it is a cheap watch I didn't want to spend much anything on it, about 7€ so far.
Good job changing the crystal.It makes the watch look so good!
I happen to be wearing this one tonight. Paid $28 in 2020. Runs pretty good. Lug width is 16mm so I don’t have a lot of straps for it.
Leopard was a brand of Finnish watch importer Sylvester Korhonen Oy. The company imported Zenith and Certina among others. Leopard disappeared with the parent company sometime in the 70s. Extremely common watches in Finland. Leopard, Leijona (Lion) and Tiger form the holy trinity of Finnish cheapo vintage beauties.
When I bought the watch I made the mistake of not asking the seller about the diameter. I got cocky! Turns out the watch is 30mm. Way too small for me, but luckily perfect size for my wife. She just loves the military aesthetics of this Leopard.
Interestingly (or not), my first watch ever was also a Pontiac, bought to me by my parents when I was 6 or so. And I still have it. It's powered by a mechanical France Ebauches calibre FE-140.
Funny how, as a kid, I never realized how cool a watch I had. And it is also probably responsible for my strong liking for arabic numerals. After a couple of years, I switched to a Texas Instruments LED watch, one on which you had to press a button to have the time light up in red, which was perceived as the bleeding edge at the time. I'm just happy I never got rid of my little Pontiac, who now has a well deserved spot in my watch box...
