Doxa Calatrava Dress Watch 1950s
Calibre Doxa 1147Condition — Lightly polished case, original dial with even cream patina
Provenance — Bought at auction online, like most of what I keep.
What pulls my eye on this one is the dial's uneven tone: warmed to soft ivory in the centre, paler at the edges, with the gilt hands and dagger markers still holding good colour against it. I count the applied numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and the pointed indices between them, catching light differently by angle, typical of a dial that has aged rather than been repainted. The steel case is unpolished, its lug edges softened and the bezel carrying a few fine marks consistent with genuine wear. Doxa's Calatrava-style dress case suits this kind of aging well, and inside sits the manual-wind cal. 1147, keeping things slim on the wrist. The caseback carries a legible serial and the maker's marks, plain and unrestored. I'd point this one toward a buyer who wants a 1950s dress watch to wear as found, not one after a crisp, untouched dial.
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
