Eterna Matic

TimeODanaos

I like this! ^ 👍
18kt? Do you happen to know date and movement ref. please?

joeshoup

The wife has a Kontiki 10... But she gives it a lot of wrist time (even if she never sets the date). And of course it is April 😎

Really a cool design, I love the dramatic angles on the side of the case.

Dr.Sascha

Black Eterna magic . . .

Mafkees

That's sharp. My pale one (not a 20, tho) says hello.

hejsam

And mine non-matic Kontiki with date says hi 😀

Mafkees

That's hot! What's up with 'non-matic', and what's the serial range of them?
Here's my 472x (1962) yes-matic, that I've shared before of course. The case is as sharp as yours. What a shape huh.

hejsam

I actually don't know I did first believe the manual non-matic was the earliest kontikis but that is clearly not correct since most of them seems to appear 1963-1965.

This one is a 488' serial and the manual non-matic without date I sold here last year had a 500' serial number:

And yes the case on this one is even better than the recent one, probably sharpest shapes I've seen on these:

Mafkees

Thanks, that's some food for thought!
I see there are some readily available through the regular channels, and apparently they come relatively cheap. Did both of your examples feature crowns without the 5 ball logo?

hejsam

Something I just noticed is that the non-date (from around -65) did have T swiss T dial while the date (from around 1963) have swiss only dial.

So I guess Eterna did start to mark their dials with T's somewhere in the 63-65 area?

Mafkees

That's hot! What's up with 'non-matic', and what's the serial range of them?
Here's my 472x (1962) yes-matic, that I've shared before of course. The case is as sharp as yours. What a shape huh.

hejsam

Yes both had the unsigned crown and blank caseback, but 5-ball logo in the crystal!

Mooieklokjes

Great pieces guys! I believe non-Matics are the handwound Kontikis.

Mafkees

This makes a lot of sense.