Quiz: What's unusual about this watch?

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Quiz: What's unusual about this watch?

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See anything different about this watch? Besides the fact that it has a sterling silver case?
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Re: Quiz: What's unusual about this watch?

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No crown, bezel wound?
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No crown.
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oh yah, I'd have fingerprints all over the inside of the glass, bread crumbs in the movement.......


Now this would be a neat idea for a SF240 key wind.
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Does the bezel thread on?
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Yes, bezel threads onto the midcase. The movement holder is on a hinge that allows it to swing out of the midcase so you can access the crown.
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You think the movement is a Cortebert product? R&S was a British company that didn't make its own movements at that time, but imported them from Switzerland.
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I'm not sure of the movement. Interesting watch. Did you just pick it up?
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I've had this watch about 20 years; I got it at a pen show long before I had any interest in watches or knew anything about them at all. I just liked the look, and it wasn't very expensive. Google searching now, it looks like these are "hermetic watches" that were an early attempt to make watches waterproof:

https://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/water ... 02138.html
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