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Croton Nivada Grenchen Aquamatic

40993002/AS11843 33 mm
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Unknown Croton Nivada Grenchen Aquamatic - (Ref. 40993002/AS11843) Product Details

Overall Condition: Excellent condition overall. The case shows light signs of wear. Dial and matching handset are excellent.

Not every watch that matters wears a coronet or a Calatrava cross. Some earn their stripes quietly, through honest engineering, great proportions, and the kind of backstory that only deep collectors seem to know.

This Croton Nivada Grenchen Aquamatic is exactly that sort of discovery.

Dating to the 1950s, this example represents one of Nivada’s earliest robust automatic offerings — a model marketed boldly as “The World’s Most Carefree Watch.” Aquamatic was shorthand for the two things that mattered most in the post-war era: waterproof construction and automatic winding. Long before the Antarctic name would make its debut in 1954/55, this was the foundation.

Housed in a classic mid-century 33mm stainless steel case with elegant lugs and acrylic crystal, it features a clean, legible dial signed CROTON / Nivada Grenchen / Aquamatic, a reminder of the brand’s dual-market history. (Founded in Grenchen in 1926, Nivada distributed stateside under the Croton name beginning in 1940.) Inside beats one of ETA’s first automatic calibers, a significant movement in the early evolution of self-winding Swiss watches.

Fitted to a stainless steel expandable bracelet and accompanied by its original inner and outer boxes plus hang tags, this is the kind of full-set survivor collectors dream about.
Understated. Historically important. Effortlessly wearable.

General

Condition

Pre-owned

Brand

Unknown

Reference

40993002/AS11843

Year

1950s

Family

Aquamatic

Product Code

40993002

Watch Display

Analog

Case

Case Size

33 mm

Case Material

Stainless Steel

Lug Width

17 mm

Dial

Dial Color

Silver

Movement

Type

Automatic-winding

Bracelet

Bracelet Material

Metal

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