Doxa Calatrava Three-Hand Dress Watch, 1950s
Calibre Doxa 1147Condition — Unpolished case with light surface wear, original dial with even cream patina
Provenance — One of the pieces I bought online rather than in a shop.
The mix of Arabic numerals at 12, 4, 6, 8 with slim printed markers elsewhere is what pulled me in, along with the gilt hands and matching gold-toned numerals against a dial gone warm, freckled cream with age. I can see the "Doxa Anti-Magnetic" signature above the Calatrava-style bowl case, and the manual-wind 1147 movement inside keeps this a genuinely simple three-hander, no date, nothing added. The case holds sharp, unpolished lugs with visible edge wear and light scratching across the caseback, where a legible serial is stamped but not one I'll reproduce here. My eye goes to the crystal, clear enough that the dial's speckling and a couple of age spots read plainly rather than smoothed away. This suits a buyer wanting a 1950s dress piece worn and handled rather than dressed up for sale, and I'd rather it go to someone who values that over a tidy 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
