EVEREST SMITHS AUTOMATIC STAINLESS STEEL 25 JEWEL ENGLISH WRISTWATCH c 1966 WITH BOX 4 mm in diameter with

4 mm in diameter with a chromed case top and steel screw in back

one of the watches that was advertised as having been selected for the expedition up Everest

specially refined and with extra jewelling and extra special escapement components and a Breguet overcoil hairspring

The watch as it came had the original large rolled gold winding crown

This looks as if it the Benson answer to the Everest line in chrome cases from the period

EVEREST SMITHS AUTOMATIC STAINLESS STEEL 25 JEWEL ENGLISH WRISTWATCH c 1966 WITH BOX 4 mm in diameter withModel designation is SW201, The famous Smiths Made In England elusive automatic wristwatch with the 25 jewel movement with nickel plated finish movement based on the 19 jewel movement. Marked with caliber 10144G, and batch 106. Designed by Richard Good and Peter Amis in London and built in Cheltenham. Copied directly from the IWC automatic mechanism of the period. Correctly signed on the movement Imperial. This is a good timekeeper. Recently serviced