NIVADA GRENCHEN Antarctic ref.57066 cal. ETA 2472 / 1970s Penguin Caseback

Space in the design.

A penguin struck quietly into a cushion-shaped case.

A calm form that avoids saying too much, and still leaves an impression.

Baton indexes and baton hands, with a date at six.

Nothing excessive, nothing missing, and yet somehow softly arranged: a design full of the aesthetics of quiet usefulness, made on the assumption that it would be used in daily life.

The ETA Cal.2472.

It is, in fact, quite unlike a modern mass-production movement.

It belongs to a period when ETA was still drawing technical dreams: an attempt that built in a bidirectional winding rotor for the first time and dressed its surfaces in rhodium.

A real ambition and refinement live in this mechanism, which few people talk about.

A domed crystal, a well-judged sense of age, and a quiet bearing.

A standing and a spaciousness no current model has.

This Nivada is modest in flash, but it speaks quietly for the essence of a vintage watch — what it means to wear time.

A watch that will sit gently with anyone picking one up for the first time.

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