A late 1940s Gübelin triple calendar in unpolished steel, with a red arrow pointer date and day and month discs that read in Italian.
The dial is silvered, with applied gilt Arabic numerals at 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 and gilt dots at the hours between. Inside the numerals runs a black minute track; outside them, a blue date track from 1 to 31, read by a long blued pointer hand with a red arrow at its tip. Under the 12 sit two apertures for day and month, and this is where the watch declares its market. The discs are Italian: DOM for domenica, GIU for giugno. Italian discs came only on the watches ordered for Italian clients, and they turn up far less often than French or English.
The hands are luminous batons, the radium long since inert and settled into an even tan that matches the gilt of the numerals. The centre seconds is blued steel. The dial is signed E.GÜBELIN beneath the apertures and SWISS at 6, clean and without spotting; under the crystal at an angle there are a few fine surface lines near 3 and between 1 and 2.
The case is 34.7mm across and 43.5mm lug to lug, at the larger end of what Gübelin cased in steel in the 1940s. The lugs are the point of the design: long, faceted and sharply stepped, with polished top planes falling to brushed flanks, set against a brushed caseband and a polished domed bezel. Because the watch has not been polished, every one of those facets still meets its neighbour at a hard edge. Two flat correctors sit on the left flank at 8 and 10, date below, day and month above, with a fluted steel crown at 3.
The snap back is plain, with a protective disc still in place over it. It comes on a period steel bracelet with straight end links, unsigned.
The dial is signed E.GÜBELIN beneath the calendar apertures and SWISS at 6. The calendar discs are Italian, DOM for domenica and GIU for giugno, which places the watch in Gübelin's Italian delivery. The movement is the Valjoux 78, identified from the dial layout and the two correctors at 8 and 10 against the calibre's documented arrangement.
- Maker
- Gübelin, Lucerne
- Model
- Triple Calendar, pointer date
- Date
- C.1945-1950
- Case Material
- Stainless steel
- Diameter
- 34.7mm
- Lug to Lug
- 43.5mm
- Movement
- Valjoux 78, manual wind, triple calendar, centre seconds
- Jewels
- 17
- Complications
- Day, month, pointer date, centre seconds
- Dial
- Silvered, applied gilt Arabic numerals, Italian calendar discs
- Crystal
- Acrylic
- Bracelet
- Steel, unsigned
- Box/Papers
- None
- Warranty
- 12 months, mechanical, through Vintage Times Amsterdam from date of delivery
12-month mechanical warranty through Vintage Times Amsterdam from date of delivery.
