This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. So, enjoy this gallery of photos of this gorgeous watch (I threw a couple of my ’69 Hamilton Chrono-Matic in there too, just ’cause they looked next to each other) and be sure to check out 10:25 for more vintage watches. And of course, inside is a quality Valjoux hand-wound chronograph movement, the same one you’ll find in Heuers of the time. Given the handset, it’s from the 60’s, making the condition all the more impressive. It looks amazing against the silvery white surface. And then there’s the lume… that perfect, acid orange tritium that collectors pray to find. Things are clearly aged, giving you a great patina, but nothing looks over worn, polished or replaced. What’s striking about it is that it’s one of the more rare panda versions, to start, and in exceptional condition. The one shown here is owned and soon to be for sale by our friends at 10:25 Vintage, who focus on more affordable vintage pieces. They’re very cool pieces with a surprisingly modern size at 39mm, great build quality and a lot of style. If you’re not familiar with these semi-obscure, amusingly named chronos, go check out our Affordable Vintage article on them. Well… usually I have to, but this time I got to borrow one such watch, a beautifully aged panda-dial Croton Chronomaster Aviator Seadiver. It comes on a dark green alligator strap.Sometimes I come across watches that fellow collectors own that are so gorgeous, they are hard to let go of. The case looks great, with a slightly bent lug, but overall very few usage marks and no scratch. The very rare brown bezel is looking great. This chronograph is going hotter and hotter, especially since the publication of the excellent book “Chronomaster Only” by Grégoire Rossier and Anthony Marquié.įeaturing a beautiful and particularly well designed black dial with dashes of red, broad arrow hands, black bezel, round pushers, this is a very desirable and typical 60s chronograph. Indeed, it is the only watch to be, at the same time, a chronograph, a diver, a GMT, a pilot’s watch and a regatta watch. Some speak of it as the quintessence of the 60’s Swiss chronograph.
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