SS, 33.5 mm, interesting 3 6 9 12 gold colored applied numbers, interesting gold-colored textured dial, vertical gold-colored stripes in an circle containing the numbers, minute markers in a ring inside the number ring. Dauphine hands, center sweep, second hand rather short. Your are right, I am not very facile with the description of watches. Date on 17j movement, 10CSC, and inside case back.
Any thoughts gratefully received. Thanks, Bill
I've found one very likely match...the Yankee Clipper, which in the mid 50s came in a chrome-type case. I can't tell from the linebook if the dial has those different patterns, but the angular lugs look like a match. Typically, Clipper models would have luminous dial/hands, but the description does not call for that, so that is also a match.
Yankee Clipper
1955 Linebook
Hi. Thank you for your thoughts. I don't think it can be a Yankee Clipper because the bezel is rather different. Of course, I can say this because I have a much better view of it than I gave you, for which I apologize. I have added a photo of the watch in profile which makes it much easier to see. Best, Bill
Yankee Clipper for me as well, noting crown and the bezel ring difference. It's possible based on case markings that this one is European market, which may explain the bezel ring as well as textured dial and lack of an identical watch in the US Linebooks.
1955 Yankee Clipper
Thank you, everybody, I very much appreciate your thoughts . Yankee Clipper it is, perhaps with a tad less certainty than usual. It is certainly a nice watch - in the photo, its grubbiness is very evident, but at an everyday distance, it looks much cleaner and more interesting.
Best, Bill