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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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