Amazing piece! Wear it in best of health!

 

Awesome piece, and glad to see it landed "among us" from our mutual friend. Enjoy - she's a stunner!!!

 

congratulations, that's quite the set !

 

What a wonderful dial.

 

I was both surprised and delighted to be the only bidder on this one.

 

I am surprised as well! Great watch, congrats – does the fur belong to a Basset Fauve de Bretagne by any chance @Carlton-Browne ?

 

nice, congrats! What’s the case size? Stainless?

 

thats another level! Besides identifying if watches are all ok we do dogs as well. seems a nice Guess tough!

 

Looks great!

 

Ha! i try my best!

 

No, it belongs to a Flying Terrier Mix.

He may include bits of Cairn, Irish and Australian. There may be others.

 

35mm. I first thought it might be plated but I think it's stainless; I'll get the back off later. Case reference is 31302 and serial 1516136 - probably 1951.

 

31302 means chrome ?

 

Very cool lil‘ companion. Now, back to regularly scheduled programming aka watches

 

There's a mono with the same case number on eBay right now (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Un...315896?hash=item2acbd451f8:g:lhIAAOSwQFZbg6GJPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network) with a shot of the inside case back saying "Nickel Chrome".

The case of your example is in such good shape though that it really does look like stainless. No wear/pitting whatsoever. Absolute beauty

 

I think that's your answer then (sorry - I haven't had the caseback off yet) - I'm also pleased I paid quite a bit less than the linked Monodate.. The case really is nice and sharp.

It's keeping good time - the only issue is the date changes over at 9pm. It will be going off for a service at some stage but I think I'd like to pick up a spare movement in the interim.

 

The first number in the Reference number is the case material - UG used a 3 to represent chrome or nickel plated during this period.

 

agreed. same as with every UG model. 1= 18 k gold, 2= steel, 3 = chrome plated, and so on.

 

I believe they changed/updated their "coding" system in 1965, where 3 then referred to solid white gold.
They seem to have applied the same system/s across their entire range.

A rough summary from a polerouter perspective (e.g. no polerouters were in chrome/nickel plate so it hasnt been included):
https://universalgenevepolerouter.com/decoding-polerouter-reference-numbers/

You should be able to extend these coding systems to the entire model range.

 

very interesting! as always, your site is an amazing knowledge base!