Glycine Pocket Watch, Dress, 1940s
Condition — Lightly polished stainless steel case, dial shows scattered dark spotting
Provenance — Bought at auction online, like most of what I keep.
The dark grey dial on this Glycine is what stopped me flipping past it: a smoked, almost gunmetal tone with faint scattered mottling under the crystal that reads as age rather than damage, paired with applied Roman and stick markers and slim faceted hands that still catch light cleanly. I like the small offset seconds subdial with its own printed track, a quiet Bienne-Geneve detail typical of Glycine's better dress watches from the period. The stainless case has period-correct proportions, thick-lugged, with visible handling marks and light edge wear on the bow and crown guard, nothing that reads as reshaped or over-polished. Opening it up shows a clean, unsigned-bridge manual movement with good screw finishing and a legible case serial inside, running with no coating losses I can see. This one suits a wearer who wants an unrestored 1940s dress pocket watch with real dial character, not a cosmetically refreshed example.
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
