Glashutte Original GUB 17 Rubis Dress Watch, 1960s
Condition — Lightly polished gold-plated case, original dial with even cream patina
Provenance — One of the pieces I bought online rather than in a shop.
The gilt "17RUBIS" signature under the Glashütte script is what pulls my eye every time I look at this one, sitting on a champagne dial with a soft radial sunburst that shifts as the light moves across it. What I'm offering is the applied gold baton indices and matching dauphine hands, still sharp-edged, against a case that's kept its rose-gold-toned plating with visible brassing at the lugs where a strap has rubbed over the years. The crystal shows scattered fine scratches, enough that I'd want any buyer to study the photos before deciding, but nothing that obscures the dial underneath. Turning it over, the caseback carries its original engraved specifications and a legible serial I won't reproduce here, and the movement is clean, unsigned beyond a small reference mark, with visible jewels and a nicely finished bridge. This suits someone after a wearable, unpolished German dress watch rather than a cabinet piece.
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
