Universal Geneve Polerouter strap width: 20mm

strap width: 20mm

This is a 1960s International Watch Company automatic with a Japanese made platinum case

indeed Smiths were the only English watch manufacturer to ever produce an automatic movement

In the 1960s Isomura

which means it passed a series of tests at the Geneva Observatory to verify the precision of the timekeeping across a range of positions and at different temperatures

Universal Geneve Polerouter strap width: 20mmThis is a Universal Geneve Polerouter made around 1964. The steel cased watch has the Universal calibre 215 movement, this automatic winding movement has a microrotor, this means the eccentric weight is on the same plain as the rest of the watch mechanism, which in turns makes the watch movement thinner overall. The Polerouter case and dial was designed by a young Gerald Genta. Genta was the foremost watch designer of the 20th century, in addition to