DS-2 PH500M - really a nice watch.
The one you're showing has some issues. I allow myself to show one with the right hands and the right configuration.
This model was available with two different cases and two different configurations (for the other version for example @alinghi74 would have to drop in).

 

I know and the buyer was fully aware what he would need to do to bring it closer to the original state.
This is why I allowed for a certain discount from my asking price. Both parties ended up being happy with the deal

 

ok four of mine
kr

 

My one and only Certina, and interesting dress watch, with many mysteries. I purchased it last year for around $25 at a flea market. It needed pretty extensive work; a new crystal as the old one was cracked, a new stainless steel crown, a routine service, a new second hand, and a new pivot for the center seconds wheel, which somehow had been damaged (maybe it got damaged when someone tried to pull the seconds hand off). Unfortunately, the finish on the dial flaked off a bit with cleaning, but the text is still intact. It was a fun project for me and my watchmaker, and I had only put around $200 in it when all was said and done. Personally, I was very pleased with how it turned out. Originally, I bought it because I liked the case design. It is super thin, even for a dress watch, and the diameter is quite large for a vintage watch, around 37-38mm. I don't know much about Certina or this watch, but I did know that Certina was a quality, mid-tier watch company that made its own movements. I'm assuming it's from the 1950s or early 60s, and it features a manual wind 17 jewel, in-house cal. 321 movement. It's odd because I haven't seen another cal. 321 with 17 jewels. All the others seem to have 16 jewels. Perhaps someone can shed some light on that.

 

I’d take a 50s triple date moonphase chrono with a V 200 mvmt

 

Is this a score or an epic fail or somewhere in between?

I think the back should be wavy?

This is a DS-2 body, labeled on the dial DS?

A rarity? A fake? ??

To be clear, I bought it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-CERTINA-DS-AUTOMATIC-17-351-GOLD-PLATED/392743502270?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

 

What is a bit confusing to me is that sunburst dials don't seem available in the older DS case/series.

Right now I see a women's DS-2 style automatic with a DS labelled dial and flat back...https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-c1970-...e167:g:wP0AAOSwJAxePGRy&LH_ItemCondition=3000Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

 

The one you bought is a women's watch too.

 

Oh...oops...that's embarrassing.

OK, I'll go away now.

 

Time to gear up and get my wife excited about the special watch I bought her . omg

 

Pretty much the same reason my girlfriend got her first vintage watch too

 

Glad to know I'm not the only one...

Probably not good to speed buy on ebay in between work conference calls...

 

I did, they are great.

I love my single one posted above. Really like the date at 6 oclock.

 

Hello
I have this old certina after my grandfather, but unfortunately no knowledge about it.
Seems several of you guys know quite alot about theese watches, so I am wondering if any of you can tell me whatever you know about it? I can't find the exact same anywhere online.

 

Certina was one of the first vintage brands I discovered, their old chrono's are nice and they made HEAPS of them. Fun brand to hunt.

 

Hi there!

This website will allow you to decode the numbers on the caseback: http://www.vintagecertinas.ch/en/certina-case-movement-and-serial-numbers/

I will refrain from telling you the result, as deciphering stuff like this is part of the fun of the hobby

 

And?

What do you found out?

 

Here is mine, circa 1963. Love this guy, sorry about the reflections on the photo

 

Beautiful watch, great look! It's almost impossible to avoid reflections off that domed crystal...