Description
This is Smith’s take on the diving watch, which was becoming popular with the top Swiss brands by the 1960s. The watch has a robust, solid stainless steel case and stainless steel strap. The early bidirectional bezel, which can be rotated by 60 clicks (as opposed to the later versions with 120 clicks) to track your time underwater, is in superb condition and turning freely. Although marked Waterproof the watch is definitely no longer guaranteed to be after all these years.
This is one of the rarest of all the Smiths models, it appeared only once in their catalogues, in 1969. The movement is the excellent Smiths 27.CS with shockproofing and (unusually for Smiths) the addition of a simple calendar. It has the date code 88, which is 8th month (August) of 1968.
The movement has been fully serviced and the timekeeping is excellent. The case has been cleaned, but as with all out vintage watches we have left it unpolished. The watch comes with a new old stock rubber dive “Tropic Sport” strap, which I think is very close to the original that the watch would have been sold with. And valuable in its own right.
The watch comes with our standard 12 month Warranty.
a rare and collectible piece of horological history.
