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1950's Cyma "Navystar" Vintage Manual Winding Watch

1950's Cyma "Navystar" Vintage Manual Winding Watch

£159.00Price

The classic 1950s Cyma Navystar Cymaflex Manually Wound -  The 33mm stainless steel case gently curves over your wrist with tapered lugs. A lug to lug length of 41mm and a thickness of 8.5mm . On the right side, is a signed crown. The fine bezel holds a domed crystal above the dial which has the tiniest discoloration at one and four. Applied rose gold dagger indexes with an Arabic 12 and 6 mark the hours. Dauphine’s hands are complemented by a tapered sweeping seconds hand. At 12 o’clock the Cyma motif. . On the reverse, a screw-down case back. Inside a Manually Wound CYMA Cal. R459, the watch is fitted with a Condor Aligator grain strap.

Cyma was founded in 1862 by the brother's Joseph Schwob and Theodore Schwob, in the town of Le Locle Switzerland. In 1871, Henri Sandoz established Sandoz & Cie in Le Locle. Sandoz moved to Tavannes in 1891, just North of Biel where he manufactured highly desirable repeaters and chronographs. Sandoz soon saw the potential of Cyma forming a business relationship with the Schwob brothers and Cyma was officially registered in 1903. In 1943, Cyma unveiled its first automatic wristwatch, endowed with a 420 caliber featuring a unidirectional rotor. In 1966 the company was bought by the ASUAG Chronos Holding and production continued under their Synchron group in 1968. Cyma became a sister company to Doxa and Ernest Borel throughout the 1970s. The company is currently owned by Stelux International Ltd, a Hong Kong holding firm that invests in jewellery and watches. When Cyma introduced the Navystar collection it had more than 20 international patents which included innovations in its ability to resist shocks such as immersion, under particularly demanding circumstances.

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