I was at my local watchmaker today delivering a couple of watches when he told me he finished working on my Eterna "bumper". I didnt even remember I own a Eterna "bumper"
Im absentminded, but in my defense, I bought the watch and left it with him over a year ago.

I still know too little about Eterna.
I wasnt sure about the dial (Im still not), but it bears signs of aging and seems to be original. The lume doesnt look quite right to me.
The serial number places the watch in the 40s. Ive seen other cases with the same fancy lugs, so Im assuming its original. It has a 1158H movement.
What do you guys think?

 

9.0 from the East German judge

 

Very nice and original watch.

This is mine (wrong hands)



but the movement is close to yours

 

I like it. Is it small, like 31mm??

McK

 

Lovely little piece, and the two tone dial is a treat! Enjoy!

 

up to my personal mind vintage Eternas are some of the most undervalued wristwatches in the market today. Soe of them have truly nice design and quality! Have a look at the vintage Kontkis of the 50´s and 60´s for example you can still find them very reasonable for less than 500.-US

by the way up to Eterna production list your watch dates from 1947...

 

Thanks!
I think the case is 34mm.

Yup, I actually have a couple of Kontiki's. Im Norwegian so those models are especially cool (Thor Heyerdahl, who built the Kontiki and sailed it across the Pacific ocean, was Norwegian.)
My latest addition to my collection is this:

 

Very sweet! Can you explain how the bezel functions?

 

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Thanks!
I don't know how to use it, but it's has "no decompression figures represented in meters of depth".
The same kind of bezels is also on some of the new Kontiki-models:

Thats a great collection of watches
Thanks for info btw! Ive been struggeling finding good information about the Kontiki-line on the interweb.

 

A real treat of a watch! Wear in good health.

 

34mm is definitely wearable, no matter what the Invicta crowd says! ;-)

McK

 

Set the zero bead on the bezel to the minute hand at the beginning of the dive. The scale (in meters) then tells you the time limit for a no-decompression ascent, based on the maximum depth of your dive. If your dive time goes beyond the marking of your maximum depth, you must stop to decompress on the way up. I believe Doxa was the first to employ this type of bezel.

 

Great looking watch! If no one else has called it I'd like to call dibs, I don't have a bumper in the collection yet.

 

Here is mine from my deceased (MHRIP) uncle.
I have a question tho. Does the '61' meant the watch was manufactured in the year 1961?
Thanks!

 

Take this with a grain of salt, but I have heard that the original Centenaire pieces came out in 1956 in honor of the centenary of Eterna, but I don't think that they were only made in 1956, they probably continued on a bit. Then in 1961, they came out with a new line called Centenaire 61, which started in 1961, but also continued for some period of time. So I think you could probably find Centenaire 61 pieces made in 1962, for example. Then there was the Centenaire 71 model as well. Anyway, post a clear photo of the back showing the case number, and that will help date the watch. A movement photo would also help, for the serial number.

 

Thanks for the valuable info, Dan!
Here's the photo of the case back, it just have Centenaire on it.

 

OK, we would need the serial numbers on the case and movement, wherever they are. By the way, that photo is blurry and out-of-focus, so even if the case-number were there, we couldn't possibly read it.