| Tissot - Scarce Autolub with Plastic Gears, Day and Date Feature, with "Batman" Inspired Lugs (circa '70s) | |
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| Description/Comments: | |
| Look at this unusual autolub watch with a barrel shaped case with what can only be described as a "Batman" style lug design. I guess the Batman craze of the sixties wore off on watch designers too! This watch is in excellent cosmetic and running condition. In fact, it keeps very accurate time. | |
| Case: | |
| The barrel shaped case is made of metal with a chrome finish and measures 1 5/8" across (including the crown) and 1 5/8" (from top to bottom.) The lugs are extended from the case and look like the "Batman" hood shape. The inside of the back of the case is marked Fond, Acier Inoxydable, CH. Tissot & Fils, Tissot Fab Suisse, Swiss Made and the numbers 83506-1. | |
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| Dial: | |
| The hexagon shaped dial is definitely a retro-mod design featuring a smart silver toned color coordinated arrangement accented in black. The dial is marked Tissot (with the Tissot logo) and Swiss below the 12 o'clock position and Actualis and Autolub above the 6 o'clock position, and Swiss Made at the outer edge of the dial at the 6 o'clock position. All lettering is finished in black tone. Near the outer edge of the dial there are thin black lines for the 60 seconds and minutes scale. The hour markers are raised and silver tone with a rectangular shape. They have a centrally located and slim black colored line as surface marking.The date feature is located at the 3 o'clock position and has black Arabic numerals against a white background. The baton style hour and minutes hands are a silver tone in color and divided with two very sleek streamlines running through their middles. The inner section is black in color and the outer section is white in color. The straight sweeping seconds hand is a black in color. The crystal echoes the hexagon shape of the case and is flat on the surface and is straight around the edges and is raised 1MM above the surface of the case. | |
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| Band: | |
| A 18MM braded genuine leather band that is black in color with a silver tone buckle. | |
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| Movement: | |
| Swiss Made Autolub with plastic gears Mechanical Wind. (Take a look at those funky plastic gears and the color arrangement as well.) | |
