Mine is this IWC 3521 The watch wears great and keeps time very well. I owned this one since new she is starting to show her age minor nicks and scratches nothing that is bad just well worn. Here's the specs on this watch by todays standards she is on the small side at 34mm but wears a bit larger Specifications: automatic calibre 887x with ball bearing platinum rotor and date display based on Jaeger-Le Coultre production calibre 887 = JLC calibre 889 Kaliber 8872 = JLC calibre 889/2 diameter: 26 mm height of movement: 3.25 mm number of jewels calibre 887: 34 calibre 887/2: 36 frequenzy: 28,800 A/h = 4 Hz balance spring: flach fine adjustment: Spirofin shock protection: Kif surface: gilt, oscillation weight made of platinum total production: n/a tripartite, screwed case steel and mixte cases: waterresistant to 12 atm gold cases: waterresistant to 6 atm top part with bezel: flat surface with 5 recesses (for screwing tools) in stochastical position amagnetic to 40,000 A/m, movement protected by Farraday's cage made of soft iron inner case and soft iron dial bottom glass: sapphire case number on case back at the edge of the inner circle chronometer certificate Ingenieur-logo with scripture OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED | CHRONOMETER | AUTOMATIC above index at 6 o'clock straps & bracelets (bracelets of type «Ingenieur SL» II with raised interlinks) croco/leather stainless steel 18 ct. yellow gold
It is between these two: Small and quirky 1965-66 Tissot: The name Orient... The most underated vintage (late 60ies) divers watch out there:
Girard-Perregaux seems to be a brand that flies under the radar. This particular one even more so as it has an ETA movement. It's 38mm, has no date to distract /annoy me, and has 6 sexy blued hands. And I like it!
Connie ref 166.047 cal 1001 gets a bad wrap from Desmond's inconsiderate writeup... One of my favorite daily beaters, I've owned this watch more than ten years with no problems, only affection.
I'd say Certinas and also fit into that category of underrated...in house movements for the most part and great designs.
Hands down, Eterna has the lowest respect-to-innovation quotient of all the brands. I mean, they laid the groundwork for all modern automatic movements with their ball bearing rotor pivot!
Lucien Piccard Seashark in Palladium because it's the other white metal. It was also a fairly well respected brand decades ago
I concur. I was frankly shocked that I could source this 1960s 37mm 18k Kontiki 20 (with pristine medallion on the back & screw down crown!) for little more than its scrap gold content:
Not much love for the 3700 either... First large production watch to be made of titanium (machined out of a solid block). Def. More of a historically relevant piece than having two lines of red lettering on a submariner
Just shows how much I care about double-red-gilt-matte-spiderweb-chocolate-frappucchino-reverse-chai-no-cinamon-steve-mcqueen cr@p going on in rokexlandia.
Two perhaps unpopular and certainly underrated watches from a (now) popular marque- The Heuer Camaro lags behind its brothers despite featuring the same movements and the same beautifully simple dial layouts. One of the most accessible ways to get into a column wheel, manual-wind Heuer. And the 1553N - the automatic Carreras have never had their moment in the sun, while the automatic Autavias had a moment a few years ago. Of the first-gen automatic Carreras, this is perhaps the least sought-after. In photos it can look a bit strange, and while I do not tend to like asymmetrical watch faces, this one is just endearing in a strange and inexplicable way! Sorry for bad photos, I didn't have any wrist shots in my phone.
And this is perhaps the worst photo I've ever taken of it, too! It looks a lot better in the light of day.
