Eterna Eternamatic Three-hand 1950s
Calibre Eterna 1402UCondition — Lightly polished case, original dial with even cream patina
Provenance — Acquired privately; no dealer, no paperwork.
What draws me to this piece is its scale rather than the dial itself — a ladies' Eterna sized for a cocktail wrist, hung on a stirrup-style bail and clasp rather than fixed lugs, which is not how I usually find these. The dial is a warm cream, with applied gold-tone baton indices and matching dauphine-style hands, the Eternamatic signature sitting above the gold ball-bearing logo. The dial surface shows its age in tone rather than damage, and the case has clearly been worn, with light scuffing along the caseback and bezel edge and brassing starting to show at the case sides. Flip it over and the Eterna 1402U automatic movement is signed and running, with its distinctive ball-bearing rotor visible through the open back. I have kept the case as it came to me rather than polishing out the marks. This one suits someone drawn to Eterna's rotor mechanics as much as its dress presence, in a genuinely small format.
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
