Showing posts with label Milus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milus. Show all posts

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Milus 1962 Week Date Auto men's Watch.



An old Auto Week Date Men's watch from Milus, a 25 Jewel movement made by Milus likely in the year of 1959-1970. Date Dial was advance by pushing the crown, a drawback for an accidental advance. The Watch carries the original logo of Milus at bottom. A simple function watch, an high end version of Milus in the 60's. Still looks fun to be worn nowadays! It was sold at HKD$330 in 1968.
HK Snob

Saturday, April 20, 2013

A Vintage Milus Watch




The creation of the Swiss Milus watch was dated 1919. Milus was founded by Paul William Junod.
In 2008 the Milus International SA watch company was bought up by Chow Tai Fook (CTF) Group company located in Hong Kong.

This is a simple but beautiful Milus likely made in the year 1970-1976., manual Movement, size is quite updated with adecent dimension. The Dial is as new as it was made 40 years ago. We bought it in Ap Liu Street with merely a few hundred dollars, the ostrich strap is have 100% matching colour as the dial, This ia a lovely Remembrance of the good time in the 70s'.

The Pen is a 1960 Monblanc Model 256 and the Spectacles was a 1940 reading glasses on a pair of hand made Turtle shell frame.
HK Snob

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Milus Instant Date Snow Star Red Gold Watch



In WWII the US Navy put "life barter kit" in navy planes for those served duty during campaigns in the Pacific. The kit was to used as an offer a few valuables pilots could trade or sell if their plane shot down when they needed help, food, information, or transportation.

The life barter kit was different with a survival kit, There it contained two gold rings, a gold pendant and chain, as well as a Swiss Milus Snow Star – Surprisingly Milus didn't know about that until a few years ago. US Navy decided a Milus watch was good enough to be exchanged for a human's life was darn excellent news.
The Milus Snow Star watch and the life barter kit were made in 2011 as a retro version.
One in 18k Red gold which we are talking about it here and the other in steel. Each watch comes with a little kit of a pair of cufflinks, and a nylon NATO strap.
The watch is 40mm wide, a sapphire crystal and a water resistance of 30 meters.
The gold one has the more interesting movement being a NOS (new old stock) Swiss ETA 2408 manually wound movement with a power reserve of 36 hours.
Milus sourced the older movements and totally restored them for use in these watches. The couldn't get that many so only the red gold models which are limited to 99 pieces. Both models indicator "instant date," which means the date changes instantly at midnight.
My personal Comment, this is a real classic like Hamilton Intramatic, I am checking how many still we can buy in the HK Market.  I like the Gold one.  Are you interested In?
I used to have a few Milus watch when I was young, my mother used to wear a miniature Milus watch manual Winding. It was about HKD$200 I the 70’s it is not cheap at all at that time. She worn it until one day someone bought her a Rolex Orchid.
Milus makes me thinking my time in the 70’s and It is a classic., and I like Solid gold watch
PS
It is Funny to see the tiny knight had a Logo of Milus as his head, let me search for what reason this character was created?! If I am not wrong, I have seen it before.
HK Snob