Certina Manual-Wind Three-Hand Dress Watch, 1950s
Calibre KF 320BCondition — Unpolished case with plating wear, dial shows spotting and staining, original hands
Provenance — Privately bought and privately sold, the way the whole collection runs.
What pulled me toward this one is the two-tone dial: a brushed silver outer minute track giving way to a slate-grey centre, with gilt dot markers that have kept their colour better than the frayed edges around them. The gilt hands match, and the small seconds sub-dial at six carries its own printed track, still crisp. The case is unpolished steel with strong lug bevels, brassing showing through at the edges and light scratching across the crystal and case sides consistent with real use rather than storage. Flip it over and the KF 320B manual movement is clean, fifteen jewels visible, the balance running freely when I wound it. The dial itself has silvering loss and a few hairline cracks near the edge that I want stated plainly rather than glossed over. I think this suits someone who wants a 1950s three-hander to wear and look at closely, not one for a case at home.
Buying from a stranger, in short. Every fault I know of is in the listing, and if you find one I missed, the return stands. Take the watch to a watchmaker of your choosing before you pay — I have never once objected. Fourteen days to send it back, for any reason at all.
Privatverkauf. Everything described above — case, dial, hands, lume, rate and service history — is agreed condition for this watch and I stand behind all of it. Beyond that, the watch is sold excluding liability for material defects, as is normal between private individuals for a vintage mechanical object of this age. That exclusion does not cover anything I have misdescribed or failed to disclose, and never covers injury or intent.
Fourteen days to return it for any reason — my own promise, not a statutory withdrawal right. Terms · How I describe condition
