Hey Folks,

yesterday I saw a nice Seamaster 300 at a local flea market page, which made me curious. I did not had the intend to buy the watch, but I wanted to have a closer look. I took a short drive and had the watch in my hands. An early 165.024-63 with strange hands. A Quick reseatch prior to my visit allready showed other examples of this mystery. Asymmetric case SM 300 with CK 2913 "Small arrow" hands.

Despite it was a super early example, the patina in flash was even better than on the pics. So in the end, I bought the watch .

This is the current status: Dirty, wrong Plexy, 16 Endlinks and a 8220 BOR bracelet.
So next step is the plexy and I am thinking what to do with the lume on the minute and second hand.

Question to the Seamaster experts. Is it accepted that early SM300s has the CK2913 or is this still a delicate topic? If second, maybe this example is another proof that the Italian catalog pics showing a real watch?

Cheers Nico

 

I dunno, but dibs

 

My opinion, if you saw it in a catalog, the factory assembled at least one of them. Whether yours started life that way is impossible to know for sure. I wouldn’t change it!

 

That's a true beauty Nico ! great find

 

Hello Nico,

The watch in the Italian catalogue was definitely produced and I owned this one for a short while and I believe it was previously owned by Neil (flame).

I'm not an expert but your watch looks legit to me.

 

Thanks @JACK G . Do you remember if your watch was also a 1963 one?

 

Sorry Nico I don't remember but Neil @flame might.

Given that the Italian catalogue was 1964 and only a few watches were produced with these hands it would make sense that the watch was produced in 1963.

 

@JimJupiter : now I need your watch . Second on the DIBS list

 

Great catch Nico, thanks for sharing and take care
HAGWE Hajo

 

Awesome looking watch. A great find at a flea market

 

Great watch and great find, Nico.

 

I have observed more than a few examples of the reference 165024-63 that come with this hand set. At least one example comes with an earlier dial configuration with a confirmed extract delivered to Italy.

Congrats Nico.

 

Now all it needs is a cool name like the “Trecento” to send the value through the roof.

Nice find Nico

 

Thanks for the information guys! I hope they don’t forget this chapter in the SM300 only book ;-)

watch is at the watchmaker right now. I will show it cleaned and running (good) again when I got it back. Seems there was something wrong with the winding mechanism. The rotor was spinning when I was winding the crown. But movement looked good he said and shouldn’t be a big deal.

Nico

 

It's a beautiful and all correct watch
It needs a 1506 bracelet and you complete this gem

 

You have my contacts Bill .

Got info from my watchmaker. Part 550-1437 and 550-1464 needs to be replaced. Parts are on its way, service just needs a bit longer then.

 

did you happen to order an extract? Case is

 

I did! I keep you informed. super curious what country of sale it was.