1970s Wittnauer Automatic Blue Dial 'Diver' on Bracelet 37mm
Here we have a rare classic ‘Japanese’ 1970s Wittnauer Automatic Blue Dial 'Diver' on a bracelet. Featuring a 37mm tonneau-shaped stainless steel case that flows over your wrist with an integrated bracelet. Its curved flanks lead to a lug-to-lug length of 46mm and a case thickness of 11.5mm. On the right side, a coin-edged crown. The friction-fit serrated-edged bezel features a recessed blue bakelite 60-minute scale. A domed crystal sits above a two-tone blue dial. A light blue wide minute track with applied baton indexes and Tritium pips marks the hours. At 3 o’clock, a Day/Date framed window. Steel baton hands tipped with Tritium are complemented by a tapered seconds hand. At noon, we have the Wittnauer motif, and at 6 o’clock, Automatic completes this striking sports watch. On the reverse, a screw-down case back, inside an automatic Wittnauer Signed Seiko Cal. 7009A, 17 jewels, beating at 21,600 beats per hour. Wittnauer used this reliable, cost-effective movement during the height of the Quartz crisis of the 1970s. It comes paired with its 27mm stainless steel H-link integrated bracelet, secured by a signed folding clasp; it will fit up to a 7.15-inch wrist.
Here we have a rare classic ‘Japanese’ 1970s Wittnauer Automatic Blue Dial 'Diver' on a bracelet. Featuring a 37mm tonneau-shaped stainless steel case that flows over your wrist with an integrated bracelet. Its curved flanks lead to a lug-to-lug length of 46mm and a case thickness of 11.5mm. On the right side, a coin-edged crown. The friction-fit serrated-edged bezel features a recessed blue bakelite 60-minute scale. A domed crystal sits above a two-tone blue dial. A light blue wide minute track with applied baton indexes and Tritium pips marks the hours. At 3 o’clock, a Day/Date framed window. Steel baton hands tipped with Tritium are complemented by a tapered seconds hand. At noon, we have the Wittnauer motif, and at 6 o’clock, Automatic completes this striking sports watch. On the reverse, a screw-down case back, inside an automatic Wittnauer Signed Seiko Cal. 7009A, 17 jewels, beating at 21,600 beats per hour. Wittnauer used this reliable, cost-effective movement during the height of the Quartz crisis of the 1970s. It comes paired with its 27mm stainless steel H-link integrated bracelet, secured by a signed folding clasp; it will fit up to a 7.15-inch wrist.
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Here we have a rare classic ‘Japanese’ 1970s Wittnauer Automatic Blue Dial 'Diver' on a bracelet. Featuring a 37mm tonneau-shaped stainless steel case that flows over your wrist with an integrated bracelet. Its curved flanks lead to a lug-to-lug length of 46mm and a case thickness of 11.5mm. On the right side, a coin-edged crown. The friction-fit serrated-edged bezel features a recessed blue bakelite 60-minute scale. A domed crystal sits above a two-tone blue dial. A light blue wide minute track with applied baton indexes and Tritium pips marks the hours. At 3 o’clock, a Day/Date framed window. Steel baton hands tipped with Tritium are complemented by a tapered seconds hand. At noon, we have the Wittnauer motif, and at 6 o’clock, Automatic completes this striking sports watch. On the reverse, a screw-down case back, inside an automatic Wittnauer Signed Seiko Cal. 7009A, 17 jewels, beating at 21,600 beats per hour. Wittnauer used this reliable, cost-effective movement during the height of the Quartz crisis of the 1970s. It comes paired with its 27mm stainless steel H-link integrated bracelet, secured by a signed folding clasp; it will fit up to a 7.15-inch wrist.
