Zodiac Rotographic Automatic Dress Watch, 1950s
Ref. 689 · Calibre Zodiac 1361Condition — Lightly polished gold-plated case, cream dial with light age spotting, original hands
Provenance — Privately bought and privately sold, the way the whole collection runs.
The dial is what took my attention first: a light silvered field with a raised inner minute ring, the finish gone slightly granular with age under the applied gold batons and dauphine hands, and that upper marker done as twin batons rather than the usual single stroke. My case is gold-capped rather than solid, and it shows for it — the lug edges have thinned with brassing where the plating has worn through to base metal beneath, plainly worn rather than dressed up for sale. Turning it over, the Zodiac 1361 automatic sits under a clean, unengraved caseback stamped with the reference and a legible serial I won't reproduce here; the movement itself looks unmolested, rotor and bridges free of scratching from careless case openings. I'd put this to someone who wants a genuine 1950s Rotographic to wear, not shelve — a piece where the case wear tells its own story rather than one chasing a showroom finish.
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
