Another fine example from my Butex collection. It has a rather unusual design with a mirror polished chapter ring together with the minimalistic cross-hair dial. The design resembles the legendary Universal Polerouter, although without the wonderful and prestigious 215 microtor automatic movement.
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| 60s Butex Automatic Watch - ETA 2452 |
This watch is powered by the ETA 2452
Features -
- Automatic and manually wind.
- 18,600 bph.
- 25.6mm D x 5.3mm H
- 25 Jewels
- Power reserve 42h
- Rotor marked 25 Jewels, Swiss Made.
Case:
- Funky 70s style tonneau shape case with hidden lugs.
- Polished sides and circular grain front case.
- Case width is 35mm not including the crown, 38mm lug to lug.
- Lug size is 18mm.
- The case is solid stainless steel with stainless steel screw back.
- There is 1 deep scratch about 3mm long at the back of the case otherwise the case is in mint condition.
- Screw back marked All Steel, Antimagnetic, Automatic, Swiss Made, Water Resistance and 713053
The dial and hands:
- Orginal and beautiful stylish dark blue textured dial in uncommon matt finish.
- Chunky raised and faceted steel baton hourly indexes.
- Date window at 6 with quickset by back and forth between 8:00 - 12:00
- The dial marked BUTEX Swiss Automatic and 25. T Swiss Make T on both side of 6
- Polished steel hands with white stripes.
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| Mirror polished chapter ring with engraved markers |
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| Add Minimalistic cross-hair dial |
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| Dauphine watch hands complimenting the minimalistic dial |
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| Streamline case design and relatively thin for an automatic watch |
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| Unsigned original crown |
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| Stainless steel case back with all the appropriate markings |
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| Robust ETA 2452 automatic movement with bi-direction winding |
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