Men’s Vintage Military Wwii Doxa Black Huge Antique Wristwatch
Posted on October 5, 2011 | Category: Antique wristwatches
SquareTrade © AP6.0Rare Men's Vintage WWII Military DOXA Huge Black Wristwatch
A Beautiful DOXA Huge Wristwatch. The Dial, a Movement and a Case are signed with "DOXA". This Beautiful Watch has the Antique HIGHT-GRADE Movement DOXA in an Excellent Status which was very well saved, considering age of this watch. This Watch is have Manual Wind 15 Ruby Jewels screwed settings Movement, is in Perfect Working Order and in Very Good Cosmetic Condition. The Movement is Stamped with Famous Marking DOXA. Mechanism has been recently serviced to ensure it winds and sets smoothly while keeping great, accurate time. The Black Metal Dial was been Professionally restored from Original Basis. The Watch is cased in a Metal Argentan Case with Two Back Lids. Lifting this lid reveals an inner Dust Cover Lid, also Metal Argentan. This was used to protect the mechanism from dust and debris and to provide an extra layer of protection from shock or moisture. The Case Wristwatch also has been Restored. This Watch is a Perfect Example of a "Transitional" Era Timepiece. As wristwatches became more popular, pocket watches were sent back to the factories or jewelers for conversion to wrist watches. They were re-cased using the Original Parts.
Original DOXA Swiss Gold-plated Manual Winding Movement
15 Jewels
the Mechanism is Serviceable!
it was carefully served a week ago (it was cleaned and oiled)
Subsidiary Seconds at 9 o' clock
Antimagnetic
Illuminated Hands
the Watch has a Metal Argentan Case with pressed grounds Nr: 2390792
New Leather Strap (the width 22 mms)
Overall dimensions are:
length - 58,5 mm (with holders for a thong)
width - 53 mm (with crown)
width - 49 mm (without crown)
thickness - 13,5 mm
All works properly, the Watch keeps the Good Time, are in a Very Good Condition. Exceedingly Rare and Highly Collectible! Very Fine Watch for a Collecting and for Carrying!
About Watch Company of DOXA:
DOXA was founded in 1889 in the heart of one of Switzerland's major and most inventive watch making areas, the canton (district) of Neuchatel's Jura Mountains. Today DOXA brings to the industry a perspective forged over a century of often pioneering watch design. The founder Georges Ducommun (1868-1936), the founder of DOXA, was born in Le Locle among the Jura hills of canton Neuchatel in Switzerland. He was one of 13 children of a poor family. At the age of 12, he became an apprentice in a manufacture specialised in casing-up watch movements. He started his own watch repair business when he was 20. He worked hard to set up his business, walking the 10 kilometers to La Chaux-de Fonds to deliver his products personally, even in the depth of winter. The success of his watches enabled him to live in Chateau des Monts, today home of the world-renowned Le Locle horological museum. From there he made the daily journey to his factory by carriage. DOXA & Sportscars... When the first horseless carriages appeared, George Ducommun became one of the region's first owners of an automobile. He had a garage built on his property and his own petrol pump... At the beginning of the 30's, the fast evolution of aircraft and automobile industry put pressure on the watch-making industry, it was one of the greatest challenges ever for the watch manufacturers. As an astute industrialist and passionable automobile owner, Georges Ducommun reacted to the evolving car racing market and started to develop instrument-panel clocks for cars (and aircraft). For those, he used a high-grade 8-day watch movement, which he had patented in 1908. The greatest automobile manufacturer of that age, BUGATTI, equipped its famous race cars with DOXA 8-day movement instruments. DOXA, Sportscars & Rallye Timers The tight and emotional relationship between the automobile and watch-making industry has a long tradition and dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. It was in the year of 1911, when the first board watch decorated early automobile dashboards. Watch manufacturers put all their effort in the production of precise high-quality time-pieces for automobile dashboards in order to play a part in the evolving car racing industry. DOXA, Sportscars & Rallye Timers The tight and emotional relationship between the automobile and watch-making industry has a long tradition and dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. It was in the year of 1911, when the first board watch decorated early automobile dashboards. Watch manufacturers put all their effort in the production of precise high-quality time-pieces for automobile dashboards in order to play a part in the evolving car racing industry. DOXA's contribution to time-measurement in the race car history was the integration of its 1908 patented high-grade 8-day watch movement in the legendary instrument-panel board watch, nowadays known under the name DOXA 8-DAYS. The famous Bugatti Type 35 built from 1924 to 1931 was Bugatti's most successful sports car. The greatest automobile manufacturer of that age, BUGATTI, equipped its famous race cars with DOXA 8-day movement instruments. DOXA 8-day movement instruments This high-grade legendary 8-day movement patented in 1908 by George Ducommun, DOXA's founder. The complicated movement has a power reserve of 8 days as the name implies. Each metal piece of the high-quality movement, each timer is assembled individually.
All Pictures are Actual, you Receive what you See!All used Pictures do Show the Actual Watch they are heavily enlarged, like under an Magnifying Glass, they do not hide anything, please take an close look. The Watch Looks Much Better in Reality than in the Pictures!
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