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· ·Mrs Nataf's Other SonSo, every year during the Fall Vintage Watch trading season, I have a little loss of self control. This year it was aided by the fact that I am sitting a pile of cash dough earmarked for watches, amassed months ago for a run at the Primero prototype sold at Christie's this spring but not to me. Dennis and perhaps a few others who know me from other fora know that one of my core mottoes is "Watch money must not go unspent." I had thought I was going to do something dramatic with it, but never really mustered the will to chase a Patek or some big game like that. And now, along has come a spate of vintage Zeniths that has allowed me to finally spend it.
First in from Switzerland is an straightforward little chronograph using an Excelsior Park movement from the late 1940s. It has a retailer-marked dial, which is pretty unusual in a Zenith, and the condition of the dial, lume and case is unusually good. Button action, particularly reset, is sweet and gentle, typical of the Gallet/Ex Park movements. Very satisfied with this one.
a little shift in angle brings out the blue of the hands for a less severe look.
movement pic from the seller
Additional incomings of which no less that 2 (two) from the Short List http://omegaforums.net/threads/zenith-short-lists.2664/:
- from Italy, stuck in customs for the weekend
- from Poland - not your usual Zenith terriitory, to be sure - not yet left the Warsaw airport
- and again from Italy, from a seller so dysfunctional I ought never to have sent him my money - he actually used the Italian postal service, and in all my years of buying Zeniths from Italy I have never had one native italian watch seller actually commit a watch to the Italian mail. I give this one only even odds of making it to my door.
Stay tuned.
First in from Switzerland is an straightforward little chronograph using an Excelsior Park movement from the late 1940s. It has a retailer-marked dial, which is pretty unusual in a Zenith, and the condition of the dial, lume and case is unusually good. Button action, particularly reset, is sweet and gentle, typical of the Gallet/Ex Park movements. Very satisfied with this one.
a little shift in angle brings out the blue of the hands for a less severe look.
movement pic from the seller
Additional incomings of which no less that 2 (two) from the Short List http://omegaforums.net/threads/zenith-short-lists.2664/:
- from Italy, stuck in customs for the weekend
- from Poland - not your usual Zenith terriitory, to be sure - not yet left the Warsaw airport
- and again from Italy, from a seller so dysfunctional I ought never to have sent him my money - he actually used the Italian postal service, and in all my years of buying Zeniths from Italy I have never had one native italian watch seller actually commit a watch to the Italian mail. I give this one only even odds of making it to my door.
Stay tuned.