1960 IWC Vintage Mens Watch, Cal. 853 Automatic - Stainless Steel Stainless Steel & 18K Gold Plated Unlike many of these watches

Unlike many of these watches

It has had a true expertly done restoration

painted batons filled with luminous

and an officially certified chronometer Omega movement

We have installed an new-old-stock mineral glass crystal to give a clear view of the pie-pan shaped dial to the very edge

1960 IWC Vintage Mens Watch, Cal. 853 Automatic - Stainless Steel Stainless Steel & 18K Gold Plated Unlike many of these watchesThe very fine automatic IWC featured as the Watch of the Week is is powered by the Albert Pellaton designed Caliber 853 movement. This mechanism's automatic winding system is a technical masterpiece, earning it high praise Gisbert Brunner and Christian Pfeiffer Belli in their work, Wristwatches Armbanduhren Montres bracelets, proclaimed it "one of the best automatic movements ever built in Switzerland." IWC built the movement of this very fine