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·Hi, first post on this forum so please forgive ignorance!
I’ve recently come across a 1951 UG monodatic watch that belonged to my grandad. It was all but thrown away after a family funeral but my husband and I thought it was worth rescuing. My dad thinks it was purchased as new by grandad and it has been sat in a box since his death nearly 20 years ago.
Google keeps bringing me back here as a font of all UG knowledge....I’ve identified it as 1951-2 from the 7 digit serial number. The model number appears to be 40010 with possibly another 1 on the end (smoothed away) - which does not tie in with the UG info posted by Dre in the UG information thread.
The case has very faint writing around the edge, almost impossible to photograph, that says SHOCKPROOF WATERPROOF ANTIMAGNETIC and the another word I cannot make out - also smoothed away. I haven’t opened it.
It has the guilloche face in (what looks to me to be) great condition, raised coffin dial markers between numerals, gold plated, horn lugs. It does not have the roulette date wheel feature. Strap is godawful and irrelevant.
My husband took it to 3 watch specialists in Hatton Garden today (very mixed reactions) but none seemed to really know much about UG.
2 questions - any suggestions on where to get the mechanism checked, please, in London or Hertfordshire?
I can feel the bumper working and it keeps time but we have not opened it up. Secondly, any advice on where/how to sell it, or alternatively get a valuation? If we keep it, we should let the rest of the family know! Or we might sell it.
Many thanks for any advice.
I’ve recently come across a 1951 UG monodatic watch that belonged to my grandad. It was all but thrown away after a family funeral but my husband and I thought it was worth rescuing. My dad thinks it was purchased as new by grandad and it has been sat in a box since his death nearly 20 years ago.
Google keeps bringing me back here as a font of all UG knowledge....I’ve identified it as 1951-2 from the 7 digit serial number. The model number appears to be 40010 with possibly another 1 on the end (smoothed away) - which does not tie in with the UG info posted by Dre in the UG information thread.
The case has very faint writing around the edge, almost impossible to photograph, that says SHOCKPROOF WATERPROOF ANTIMAGNETIC and the another word I cannot make out - also smoothed away. I haven’t opened it.
It has the guilloche face in (what looks to me to be) great condition, raised coffin dial markers between numerals, gold plated, horn lugs. It does not have the roulette date wheel feature. Strap is godawful and irrelevant.
My husband took it to 3 watch specialists in Hatton Garden today (very mixed reactions) but none seemed to really know much about UG.
2 questions - any suggestions on where to get the mechanism checked, please, in London or Hertfordshire?
I can feel the bumper working and it keeps time but we have not opened it up. Secondly, any advice on where/how to sell it, or alternatively get a valuation? If we keep it, we should let the rest of the family know! Or we might sell it.
Many thanks for any advice.
