Zodiac Olympos Automatic 1960s
Ref. 722 928 · Calibre Zodiac 70-72Condition — Unpolished case with light wear, original dial with even grey patina
Provenance — Bought at auction online, like most of what I keep.
The grey dial has gone a soft taupe-brown at the edges, and I can see faint patchiness near six and nine o'clock where the finish has broken down unevenly rather than uniformly fading. The applied indices and dauphine hands still throw a clean shine against that mottled surface, and the Olympos script under the Zodiac logo is crisp. Case-wise, the lugs on my example show real edge wear and light scuffing along the bevels consistent with time on a wrist, not a shelf; the caseback retains its stamped Acier Inoxydable markings and reference clearly, with a legible serial I won't reproduce here. Flipping it over, the 70-72 automatic movement is exposed under a display-style view, rotor and bridges intact with the usual light handling marks but nothing that looks disturbed. I'd put this in front of someone who wants a wearable, unpolished 1960s automatic rather than a dial that's been redone to look newer than it is.
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
