Mido Ocean Star Powerwind Day-Date 1960s
Condition — Lightly polished case, original dial with even cream patina
Provenance — One of the pieces I bought online rather than in a shop.
The lume in those hour markers has gone the soft green-grey of age, and I can see it's shrunk slightly inside the baton frames rather than crumbled out, which tells me this dial has never been messed with. It's a two-tone silvered dial with applied baton indices, the Ocean Star script and "powerwind" signature both crisp, and a day-date window at three that's stayed clean and legible. The dauphine hands match the markers in tone and wear evenly, no flaking. Case-wise the lugs and bezel show genuine handling marks and light scuffing under raking light, consistent with decades of actual use rather than shelf life, and the crown signed Mido winds smoothly when I tried it. I haven't had the caseback off, so the automatic movement inside is unseen, but the dial and case together read as a coherent, unpolished example. This suits a buyer who wants a wearable 1960s piece with real character rather than a display 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
