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[Identify] Watch worn by my father in the 1970s-80s (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Bregorzloth3983@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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[–] liizio@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hard to see things from this photo alone, but here's what I think I see: Dive watch, -or at least dive style-, black dial, huge triangular lumed indices, also I think I see a big lumed hour hand. Unfortunately there is a huge number of such watches from many makers, they were very popular at the time. Some were very cheap with plated cases and pin-lever movements, some were proper, steel dive watches. Here's one example, from the more "affordable" side :

https://preview.redd.it/bh19mia7hi0c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=690a0fe7a5149d3254e7843d444547f2dc133b60

[–] SunglassesAtNight92@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Agree with you here. Definitely an old skin diver type watch, my guess would be a Saxony or Sheffield All Sport. I was thinking Sheffield in my head and this came up with my search and it’s from the same company.

https://preview.redd.it/34f8ldpgmi0c1.jpeg?width=868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38e9eb8f63b219f10015ce487292800d1037d976

[–] Bregorzloth3983@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you! This certainly looks like the right kind of thing and I know the image isn't much to go on.

If it helps at all, Dad was a great believer in Army/Navy surplus kit and often bought yachting supplies from the gigantic ramshackle stores that flogged off old military equipment from the immediate post-WW2 period. I have no specific reason to believe that this watch may have come from such a store, but it would fit with his character!