$4,000
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH - SEAFARER Abercrombie & Fitch Co, Swiss, “Seafarer,” movement No. 452259, case No. 71676. Made in the late 1950's. Fine and unusual, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph and register. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, screwdown case back. Ivory color with painted luminous Arabic numerals and round indexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track, 12-hour AM / PM indication at 9. Luminous blued steel baton hands. Notes Abercrombie & Fitch Heuer Made exclusively for the famous sporting good store Abercrombie & Fitch starting in the 1950's, the Seafarer used rather unique subdials with tide indicators. The dial at 9 o'clock indicates high and low tides time using the cross at the center, with the disc rotating to indicate the moon's orbit. It was made for fi shermen and hunters.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-09-14
