Eterna produced many innovations in their history: the smallest production wristwatch with a Baguette movement in 1930, an eight-day alarm watch in the 1930s and their first automatic watch in 1938. [citation needed] In 1948, Eterna advanced self-winding watch technology with the development of the Eterna-matic automatic movement.

Howzit Watch Fans.I'd like to share a nice watch with a history with you. I just acquired an Eterna Matic Kon Tiki. Eterna is famous for Introducing the ball bearing rotor on todays self winding watches. The Logo for Eterna is 5 ball bearings. I have attached a link called The story of Eterna: The Kon Tiki commemorates the the Pacific Voyage of explorer Thor Heyerdahl on a Balsawood raft in 1947. The Kon Tiki watch I have has a movement numbered 1422 UD, and is from 1961. Eterna chose to date their watches by movement numbers instead of serial numbers because they changed movement numbers so often as demonstrated by the fact that in 1961 alone, there are 9 movement numbers.

The watch commemorates the voyage with a gold emblem on the case back depicting the sailing raft 'Kon Tiki '. On to the watch.the first few pics are the sellers. On to my pics.The wach was serviced according to the seller, and I found fresh silicone lube on the case back and crown gaskets. Also a very clean movement with virtually no marks or scratches visible. I cleaned the case and installed a new crystal, and although the original Gay Freres bracelet came on the watch, I found the links to feel too lightweight and rather chintzy,[ that's my take ]. So I installed the links from a bracelet I had in my stash but used the original end links, which needed a bit of body and fender work, and also kept the original deployment buckle with the Eterna / Kon Tiki logos and the Gay Freres inscription.

I hope you enjoyed looking at this watch as much as I do. Aloha, Louis. Hi Ricardo, Nice watch. This model is probably one of my earliest memories of watches as I remember reading Eterna's advertisement in the Reader's Digest of the early 70s which gave a summary of Heyerdahl's feat. Also in those magazines were Rolex's which were found on the inside cover (full-spread) and Seiko's (one page only!).

I have a few and I noticed that they 'do' have individual serial numbers so maybe their policy changed? Anil Their Policy may have changed, and I did notice a serial number on my watches movement.

I mentioned the dating system from a site called 'Wrist Chronology '. I am including that information. Maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject can shed some light on Eterna's dating system. Gents, a few days ago I was going through posts to see if I could help any members. I am looking into doing a pivot replacement and came across a post by another member that had a reply by another member (user name was “Mark” something ) apologies Mark. Anyway “Mark” had a lovely Lorch lathe with a pivoting plate ( centre plate ) but more importantly the ability to attach it to the rail stock.

My big ask is first could Mark put the pictures up again and secondly has anyone got a clamp spare that I could purchase, a massive ask but also the correct names of the parts would be ideal so I could possibly search to see if I could find any around the net. Gents many thanks for any help. Star wars episode 1 the phantom menace dvdrip torrent download.