Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Titoni 77 Airmaster-Gold Plated

Hello All,

We meet again...
It's been a while and today I urge my time to upload one of my collections.
Let's started...

Titoni, one of the most branded Swiss watch.
As you can see the model is Titoni Airmaster, the dial is black with smoothed circled lines(the color tends to very very light brown, maybe coz of the aging??).
The date is using red color.

Although the watch from 1970s but it moves ok and keeps the good time.
Still using the original crown and plastic/mica cover with inner magnifier to read the date, it has slight crack but you couldn't notice it, could you?


I know, maybe some of you compare it with Titus77(I'll upload soon..), maybe at that time the jewels represent the prestige of the watch but actually only 17-25jewels operated.
After most of the watches put more jewels with less function during that time the Swiss watch association(I don't know the exact name), forbid the usage of unnecessary jewels.
As you can see current watch, even the high-end class do not use as many jewels as this (Titoni77/Titus77).

Also, compares to Titus77, Titoni overs 1 advantage which is using additional 18K gold plated on the case back. Usually this gold plated already removed coz of the value rather than the watch itself :((.



Specs:
Titoni 77, Airmaster
Pie Pan dial
Movement ETA 2452, Rotomatic/Automatic, 77 jewels
Dia. 34mm and 36mm(w/crown), circa 1970s
SN: 347-345
Power reserve: +/- 42 hours (Good reserve !!) and keeping the good time!

hmmmm.... interested...?? ;-)

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