UG Gay Freres End Links Guide

ELV web

Certina is a watch brand. They also use gay Freres bracelet that looks very similar to UG GF bracelet.

Photo from lifted from eBay showing a certina GF bracelet. The styling of the bracelet is the same just that the clasp has different brand on it

CafeRacer

I have never seen a Certina bracelet with C endlinks. DS, X, and D on one side, S on the other, but never just C.
That ebay photo you lifted has X endlinks.

I have seen 5-10 UG gf bracelets with C endlinks - more than I have seen with UX. The numbers don't stack up to me, for them to be incorrect.
I have only seen them on 61 and 62 bracelets so far so it could be related to the dates.

The 22mm U endlinks mentioned earlier are for the first generation polerouter subs with inner rotating bezels, on gf stretch bracelets.
These early stretch bracelets ive seen date stamped 60 to 64 (maybe i saw one 59 stamped, cant remember), the later "rice bead" i have seen date stamped 65 to 72.

10H10

Imho, the steel bracelets made for UG's are all very cheap quality and dont worth spending money for them. A leather is more affordable and better looking...

10H10

Imho, the steel bracelets made for UG's are all very cheap quality and dont worth spending money for them. A leather is more affordable and better looking...

Mouflet54

I'm not agree with you. Why do you afirm that? Do you have any experience to tell that?

gop76

Maybe a questionable opinion but i think we can say that @10H10 has "some" experience with UG...

ConElPueblo

@jhross98 and @Mouflet54 : Perhaps the good @10H10 is trying to downplay how great these are... This thread is surely not helping to keep prices down 😉

jhross98

Could not disagree more. I think the bracelets gf made for ug are the all time best bracelets they ever made. Better than the heuer dbor

Mouflet54

I'm not agree with you. Why do you afirm that? Do you have any experience to tell that? GF had a craftmanship
recognized by the biggest watchmaking companies. They worked for the best one in 60' and today if we share here around this heritage it's because their quality allowed them to go through the years fron 60'...

88cut

Just to add to this, UC links fit on case number 869119/** (the grey dial) and UW fit on the other case (the black dial, unfortunately only some of the numbers are visible). They are not interchangeable, UW are 18mm and UC is a little smaller, about 17.5mm.

The grey dial is circa 67-68 and the black dial is 1970.

*if anyone has the case number for the one with the black dial please let me know*

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CafeRacer

I have never seen a Certina bracelet with C endlinks. DS, X, and D on one side, S on the other, but never just C.
That ebay photo you lifted has X endlinks.

I have seen 5-10 UG gf bracelets with C endlinks - more than I have seen with UX. The numbers don't stack up to me, for them to be incorrect.
I have only seen them on 61 and 62 bracelets so far so it could be related to the dates.

The 22mm U endlinks mentioned earlier are for the first generation polerouter subs with inner rotating bezels, on gf stretch bracelets.
These early stretch bracelets ive seen date stamped 60 to 64 (maybe i saw one 59 stamped, cant remember), the later "rice bead" i have seen date stamped 65 to 72.

gop76

Maybe a questionable opinion but i think we can say that @10H10 has "some" experience with UG...

Modest_Proposal

I found a nearly one year old photo of a UG bracelet I once owned. It's only marked "U". I believe it was attached to another non-Genta Polerouter. I don't have the size specs.