1950's Dorly Water Elf Automatic Dive Watch in Stainless Steel

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A wonderful 1950's vintage dive watch by Dorly of Switzerland with fantastic tritium broad arrow  dial and matching luminous hands in a 37mm solid stainless steel case with high quality 25 jewel automatic movement within, freshly service and ready to wear.  The dial of this watch is truly fantastic with hugh tritium luminous hour markers, triangular with numbers at 6,9 and 12 then baton in between.  Very reminiscent of the early Eterna Kontiki dials of the same era.  The timepiece has a wonderful vintage character with the aged orange luminous, rotating bezel and vintage style strap. 

Circa: 1950's

Style: Sport, Divers Watch

Case: Solid stainless steel screw back case measuring 37mm in diameter excluding the original unsigned crown.  The rotating bezel still has its matching tritium luminous dot and turns in both directions with perfect friction. The case back is fully stamped Waterproof, 20 Atmos, Incabloc, Full Steel, Swiss Made, Automatic with the Brevet + 2312/64 patent mark.  Signed inside the back Brac Of Switzerland Ltd, NY Swiss. The lug spacing is 19mm and comes on a new, black rubber vintage tropic style strap.

Dial: Original factory printed deep gloss black dial with aged orange tritium luminous and date aperture at 3:00.  Signed Dorly, 25 Rubis, Automatic, Water Elf, Incabloc, T Swiss Made T.  There is a bit of black background missing near the edge at 2:00 and 6:00 but overall in excellent condition with a wonderful vintage look.

Movement: High quality Swiss made 25 jewel automatically wound movement with incabloc balance protection.  Signed 25 Jewels, Swiss.  Freshly serviced with our full 1 year mechanical warranty.