Post your Universal Geneves

Kay995

Just got this beautiful honeycomb dial from eBay at a nice price. Starting the hunt for a new monodatic to put it in.

Kay995

Just got this beautiful honeycomb dial from eBay at a nice price. Starting the hunt for a new monodatic to put it in.

T TheRealMe

This a nice dial. Hope the search for the watch to put it in isn’t too hard.

klugt1990

Congrats, I was the underbidder on that...[/QUOTE
Thank you crazy i thought I was going to see it posted here on the forum If I didn’t get it.

Kay995

Hey thanks, yeah fingers crossed I can find one for a reasonable price.

klugt1990

This dial is mostly found on gold-plated cases btw, case ref. 400101. Hope you'll manage to find something suitable for it 👍

Kay995

I like your monodate you got there. I wish I’d have known that I’ve been looking for a solid gold case to put it in. Today On eBay I’ve noticed this gold filled ref I’m going to be watching hopefully this’ll work.

yala

Now that‘s something that I have been wondering about for some time - sometimes, you run into these double signed cases that don‘t feature the inner caseback engravings that you would expect from UG. Instead, there is the name of another manufacturer (like Wadsworth in this example). I have heard that Longines had cases made by other manufacturers in the US. Did UG do the same? And if so, what was the reason? Dodging import taxes on steel? Someone once told me that this was the reason why Rolex had some of their bracelets made in Mexico... if anyone could enlighten me, I‘d be very happy!!

Kay995

I personally don’t know so I couldn’t tell you 100% but I did go and look at the listing again and I think it my be a frankin watch
cause it has a Longines crown I’m pretty sure Could be a Longines case back ?

yala

Yeah,

Yes, definitely not a kosher watch. It mimics a Monodatic, but the dial says „Automatic“ instead of „Monodatic“. Still wondering about the „Universal Geneve“ engraving in the caseback...

bgrisso

they are also found in stainless cases.....

bgrisso

they are also found in stainless cases.....