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Picked this up last week from Keith. Finally got round to taking a few snaps yesterday and today.

It dates from 1974, ref: 188.0002, has a ETA 1255 tuning fork movement. The steel version comes in various dial colours, with either applied indices and baton hands or lumed markers and stick hands. AFAIK the gold plated version only came with applied indices and baton hands.

I was in two minds about this one as gold really isn't my thing. Fortunately Keith doesn't live too far away so I decided to go and see it for myself before rejecting the prospect. Really glad I did, it's a beauty in the metal and the indices and dial are fantastic. Not terribly legible I'll be the first to admit but any excuse to stare at your watch for a bit longer eh .

As ever Keith was a gent to deal with and we even snuck in a couple of pints and some posh pub grub too, can't be bad .

Anyhow enough talk here's some pics.






And that lovely dial.




Some pics with it's mate also from 1974.





So there you have it a bit of 70's gold.



Cheers,

Gary