Helbros Alarm 1960s Manual Wind Watch
Condition — Lightly polished gold-plated case with a clean original silver dial and red alarm track
Provenance — One of the pieces I bought online rather than in a shop.
The red-ringed minute track around this dial is what pulled my eye first, a full circuit of small painted blocks that gives the alarm function somewhere to register visually, not just mechanically. What I'm looking at is a silvered, radially brushed dial with faceted gold-tone baton indices, matching dauphine hands, and a slim red alarm-set hand pivoting from the centre alongside a small date window at three. The gold-tone case has held its shape well, with only light handling marks and a touch of finish loss at the case sides, and the caseback plainly states its stainless steel back over a base metal bezel, exactly as Helbros specified for this alarm model. Winding and alarm-set crowns both sit at the edge, correctly positioned and undamaged. This suits someone who wants a wearable 1960s manual alarm piece rather than a shelf display, and who doesn't mind case wear consistent with an example that has actually been used.
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
