The Stainless Steel Doxa Chateau des Monts 120th Anniversary Limited Edition Watch Replica
Doxa Chateau des Monts 120th Anniversary Limited Edition Watch Replica
Although the steel Doxa Chateau des Monts replica wrist watch is officially designated as a model celebrating the 120th anniversary of the brand, it is not exactly so. In the year 1889 however, the company’s founding father Georges Ducommun opened his own watch repair workshop after about 8 years of working in a company that was making pocket watches.
To be more precise, the brand Doxa was officially registered as a trademark only in 1910, which makes it “just” 89 years old.
He was only 20 years old, by the way.
To our sheep.
The new Doxa Chateau des Monts watch is styled like the famous among serious collectors mens fake Doxa Locle series of timekeepers that were produced in the 1920s.
Also known as the ETA 6497/6498 (in the 1980s the brand was acquired by the famous manufacture ETA SA, which is owned by the monstrous Swatch group watchmaking conglomerate,) these ebauches are usually sold at a wholesale price below €100.
They can be found in such models as the Panerai Luminor Marina Militare, Hamilton Khaki Officer, Glycine Incursore Manual and in a great number of mechanical watches, both cheap and very expensive
Although those vintage watches usually had their small seconds dials placed at the 6 o’clock, this particular watch has the dial located at 9 hours.
In its press release the Swiss company doesn’t go into details, but judging by the watch’s look, it must be either the Unitas 6497 or the Unitas 6498 pocket watch calibers designed in the 1950s.
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The Swiss company plans to sell this model in two lots limited to only 120 units each with dials available in black with white hands and indices, white and (my favorite) ivory with blued hands and hour markers.
Photos: Doxa
Doxa Chateau des Monts watch’s specification :
Price range: 2500 CHF
Movement: Unitas, hand-wound
Complications: Small seconds at 9 o’clock
Power reserve: N/A
Case material: Stainless steel, transparent caseback with sapphire crystal
Case dimensions: N/A
Case height: N/A
Dial: Black, white or ivory
Water resistance: N/A
Strap: Black or brown leather with buckle
Crystal: Sapphire, anti-reflective, convex
Perhaps, the change of the dial layout is due to the fact that the mens Doxa Chateau des Monts watch replica is powered by a new old stock (NOS) manually wound Unitas movement.
