Your bid in this auction is for one of the more prestigious gents diver watches of the 1960s- it’s a Technos Swiss Made THE KING that boasts a one piece stainless steel with with 18K yellow gold filled bezel ring and 18K yellow gold filled and stainless steel BEADS of rice bracelet! The watch does wind and set the time smoothly and has run and kept time to within one minute or so over the three days that I wore this watch around. It was really hard to take this watch off and decide to sell it! It’s a very comfortable fit (with some looseness) on my 7 ½ inch wrist but you couldn’t go for much bigger. The day and date indicators do function as they should. The only issue with the dial area of the watch is that all three of the hands have some tiny corrosion pocks on them. Over time, you could wait until you found better identical or similar hands and solve the issue.
All in all this watch is signed on the: 1) case 2) movement 3) dial 4) screw down crown 5) 18K Yellow gold filled buckle, and 6) the stainless steel inside bracelet hinge. Please take a look at all of the photos of this 36mm all original beauty- including the VERY THICK crystal that would have been a big part of the integrity of such an optimistic waterproofing rating. The watch has a fabulous presentation to it on the wrist with equal parts sport and able to take rougher service and also dress or sport duty styling- an all around CLASSIC beauty!
Anyhow, the case, dial and bracelet are all very good plus plus plus to perhaps some or all of the three getting near “excellent” condition. The only thing that I have done to spruce things up was wipe a jeweler’s cloth on the fluted bezel, beads of rice and 18K YGF buckle. Just checked and the bracelet does have some stretch to it so it could not reach a grade of “excellent”. The screw down crown functions excellently but needs to be dip plated to get some yellow gold back onto it! You can still see the “T” Technos signature in the crown.
The last detail I can remember about this watch is a small one- the super tough thick acrylic crystal could use a VERY light buffing- it has just a few tiny light surface scratches. NO RESERVE!!