7928, Gloss Dial Submariner, Steel 5370P a highly styled 35mm Calatrava

a highly styled 35mm Calatrava featuring long and aggressively stepped lugs

Vacheron built upon their storied 1980s ref

This was the first instance of the unconventional rotating disc wandering hour time display in wristwatches

and automatic calibre 330 SC

the Tank which built Cartier’s name in watchmaking first

7928, Gloss Dial Submariner, Steel 5370P a highly styled 35mm CalatravaA ref. 7928 Submariner with a gloss dial and gilt minute track, made for just one year inbetween all the matte dial production in 1966. A very niche collectors Sub, but with some added history here. First, it is remarkably a full set. The papers note delivery to what looks like a US military PX address, in 1968. But its the case that tells the full story, which is hand engraved JR McCONNELL, as was standard practice for watches of US military