Description
Sought after vintage diver
42 mm Monnin cased, screw down crown, “20 ATM”
Fully serviced automatic movement
Attractive 200 meter diver with very good qualities. Beautiful black dial with large luminous hour markers. Striking, orange minute hand and prominent hour hand of different shape and color. (The seconds hand has no lume though). Chronometer grade automatic movement ETA2784 (same as used in Tudor Sub-mariner). Numbered Monnin 42mm case (348764). From the late seventies, very early 80s.
This watch is in very good condition. It has seen little hard use, and keeps accurate time with its high beat (28800) movement. The bezel is worth special mention: It is narrower than many, but has steel numbers and accents cast in a bakelite (?) resin. The usual “dot” is luminescent and also well protected in the same resin. This watch has been fully serviced by our watchmaker.
The watch brand “City” history is according to the following source: http://www.equationoftime.com/forums/showthread.php?41846-City-Professional-Diver-Small-Tweaks-to-Make-Perfect-Watch City is/was a Swedish brand that was owned by a company called JP Brandt AB in Stockholm. Brandt was a importer of Swiss watches and City was their low end (not in a bad way though) watch brand and the City models were also branded Facit, Moretime, Nilax and others during the 50’s through 70’s.