VERY RARE HARD TO FIND MONDIA TOP SECOND FLASHING EYE GENTS WRISTWATCH

VERY RARE HARD TO FIND MONDIA TOP SECOND FLASHING EYE GENTS WRISTWATCH

TOP SECOND FLASHING EYE was one of the brilliant innovation by Mondia. These watches are rarely seen and hard to find. These Top Second have a flashing eye on the dial which alternates between black and orange to show that the watch is working and ticking.

The movement of this watch is a modified automatic 25 Jewels A. Schild  cal. 1913.  We can see the trick of flashing eye when the caseback and dial removed, there is a plate painted red, rotated by the rotor.

The flashing eye effect is created by a bow-tie shaped rotor which makes a full revolution once every two seconds. When an arm of the rotor arm passes under the hole in the dial the dot changes to red, and for the rest of the time the eye is black, the background color is actually the painted section of the date driving wheel.

BRAND/JENAMA: MONDIA

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1960's

MODEL: TOP SECOND FLASHING EYE

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: 25 JEWELS A.SCHILD CAL. 1913 AUTOMATIC  WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: GOLD CHAMPAGNE/KEEMASAN

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: HOUR, MINUTE, SWIPE SECOND, DATE AT 12:00 and FLASHING EYE AT 6:00

HANDS/JARUM: GOLD TONE

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: GOLD RAISED GOLD BATON TONE MARKERS

CASING : GOLD PLATED and STAINLESS STEEL BACK

LUGS: 20mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 39mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 41mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: S AUTOMATIC-WATERPROOF- INCABLOC - ANTIMAGNETIC - STAINLESS STEEL BACK - SWISS MADE

CROWN: GOLD PLATED

STRAP/TALI: GENUINE BROWN LEATHER STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL

PRICE/HARGA: USD250/RM800

BRIEF HISTORY OF MONDIA-ZENITH-MOVADO WATCHES

1875 • George Favre-Jacot succeeded in his goal: to produce reasonably priced, precise fob watches.His company employed one-third of the working population of Locle.

1896 • Manufacturer won Gold Medal at the Swiss National Exhibition.
1903 • First prize in the Neuchâtel Observatory competition for chronometers.
1911 • George Favre-Jacot retired and left the flourishing business to his descendants, under the name ZENITH.
1917 • Death of George Favre-Jacot.
1920 • First wristwatch models.
1954 • ZENITH won the Neuchâtel Observatory prize for wristwatch chronometers.
1960 • ZENITH took over MARTEL WATCH Co.

The UNIVERSELS caliber 749 and 285 became the ZENITH 146 family.

1969 • Birth of the EL PRIMERO movement, the first chronograph in the world equipped with a winding crown with central rotor.

ZENITH became a member of the MONDIA-ZENITH-MOVADO holding company.

1970 • The CRONOMETRO TIPO CP2 aviation chronographs with anti-magnetic case and 60-minute rotating lunette, manufactured for A. Cairelli in Rome.
1971 • The American ZENITH RADIO CORPORATION took a majority stake in the MONDIA-ZENITH-MOVADO group.

1978 • The group returned to the hands of Swiss investors, with DIXI, the financial and mechanical constructions group, as major shareholder.
1984 • MOVADO taken over by NORTH AMERICAN WATCH Co, and the name ZENITH appeared alone on the watch dials.
2000 • ZENITH taken over by L.V.M.H group.