Zodiac SST 36000 Automatic Hi-Beat cal. 86 Watch 1970

SPECIFICATION

Brand: Zodiac

Case: Stainless Steel

Number of Jewels: 17 Jewels

Case Size: 37,00 mm without the crown 39,00mm Lug to lug

Case Back: Stainless steel cover signed. Screw Back. 

Crown: Signed

Crystal: Acrylic

Bezel: None Rotating

Dial: Sun Dial. Luminous hands & indices dial, Swiss made Mark, with the seconds Hand with day & date at 3 O'clock.

Complication: Seconds, Date, Day.

Movement: Self-Winding Automatic. The SST day-date movement was a Zodiac Cal. 86, which has a high-beat escapement (36,000 beats/hour), and is based on the A. Schild caliber 1687. Zodiac, Girard-Perregaux, Eberhard, Doxa, and Favre-Leuba went in together to create an autowinder for this series of movements, in the early 60's. Ebel also used that movement, and presumably others as well. The autowinder is what makes this watch run when you move it.

Reference: SST36000 (Split Second Timing)

Year of Manufacture: 1970

Country/Region of Manufacture: Switzerland

 

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