Diamond/Zuanshi brand 1970s Shanghai SM1A

AlbertaTime

1970s 试制 Shizhi "S" test run piece
上海秒表厂 Shanghai Stopwatch Factory
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#vintage #amchpr #vcm #zuanshi
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foghorn
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More info please. 

This is exactly the look that got me into appreciating watches beyond the Timexes of my youth. I used to spend my lunch hours in the 70's window shopping on Bromfield street in Boston and , instead of eating ,I dreamt of having a watch like this.

Longines/Wittnauer (and many others) were my favorites, but I was on a Timex and Texas Instruments digital budget back then. I had never even realized that there were great Chinese watches at the time.

But I was young and stupid back then, and I'm not young any more.

AlbertaTime
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The thin hand Diamond/Zuanshi SM1A watches are harder to find than the shorter more squarish hand models--but they do come up from time to time. The SM1A movements are very good.