Marvin is an underrated brand, in my view, and their vintage offerings often represent good value. I happen to like their Flying Dutchman models (cross-marketed with KLM airlines), and you can see a couple of mine below.
The one to which you linked looks like a very nice watch. Probably borderline in terms of price, but I wouldn't be shocked if someone went for it.
Regards,
Tony C.
Hi Tony. Do you have any idea why your stainless Flying Dutchman would be labeled as an "Automatic" rather than as an "Autodate"? I just purchased the same edition watch and mine is also labeled "Automatic" but all the other samples I located are Autodates. The other difference is the applied markers at 12, 6 and 9. My watch is just a little different than yours because it actually has a trapezoidal cyclops which is pretty cool (ala Polerouter except it's exterior convex rather than interior concave). Just curious.
Here’s The Dude at home with his current collection:which started with the Hermetic (top) from first post in this thread and grew modestly from there:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/does-the-marvin-brand-ring-many-bells.18483/
Hi Tony. Do you have any idea why your stainless Flying Dutchman would be labeled as an "Automatic" rather than as an "Autodate"? I just purchased the same edition watch and mine is also labeled "Automatic" but all the other samples I located are Autodates. The other difference is the applied markers at 12, 6 and 9. My watch is just a little different than yours because it actually has a trapezoidal cyclops which is pretty cool (ala Polerouter except it's exterior convex rather than interior concave). Just curious.
if the apollo 11 used this colorway it would have been a big hit
Marvin made quite a variety of variations of the FD dials, so I expect that those were simply different production runs. As to the crystal, your trapezoidal cyclops is cool, and obviously original. Mine may not be original, though given the condition of the watch, I am not certain of that.
Cheers,
Tony
