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My first Universal Geneve watch

  1. nickgr

    nickgr Doesn't like baklava!!! Apr 30, 2014

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    Yesterday at the local flea market I bought a manual wind gold plated Universal Geneve for 80 euros:
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    The numbers of the caseback are 1237303, 40601 so this watch is from 1945-6 according to the serial numbers table. The movement is Universal geneve 265.
    What do you think about this watch; Did I make a good buy; Also I am curius about the fact tha the movement has the number 158877 engraved, which is curius because from what I have read so far, Universal Geneve put the serial number of the watches on the caseback and not in the movement. Do you know what this number is;
     
  2. Jimmy Jim

    Jimmy Jim Apr 30, 2014

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    I wish I could find anything even remotely close to this in my local markets. Nice find!
     
  3. LouS Ω 2

    LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Apr 30, 2014

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    For 80 Euros? How can you miss?

    The early UGs had movement numbers in addition to case numbers. They abandoned this in the late 1940s, near as I can tell. No one has ever put together a dating scheme for these movement numbers.