Not New. Not Perfect. Just Real. Just Brutto
Based in central Zurich, BRUTTO specializes in mechanical watch servicing and curated vintage & neo-vintage watches, blending Italian style with Swiss precision.
BRUTTO celebrates the beauty of time already lived, watches with character, restored with honesty and care.
BRUTTO Watches
This is a very special watch.
The arrowhead markers on this Pie Pan dial would make you think this Constellation is from the 50s. However, this example from 1961 is one of the last watches produced by Omega in this dial configuration, since it would very soon switch to non arrowhead indices.
Adding to the uniqueness of it, the golden Pie Pan dial developed an oxidation which plays amazingly with light and differently according to the hour of the day.
The 14k yellow gold case was never polished, as you can see every detail of the observatory, plus the gold markers in a very defined way. This watch was worn with the utmost care, as you would expect when owning a “Deluxe” model. Deluxe for Omega meant that the reference would have their best in house movement, a golden case, dial, hands and indices. These were the years when money were not spared in building something both of the highest quality and of the highest opulence.
Powered by a freshly serviced Chronometer rated Automatic movement 551, this watch is ready for an owner that wants something unique, classy, with the indisputable quality of 1960s Omega.
Together with the purchase, you receive a one-year warranty and a Timegrapher report showing amplitude, rate, and beat error, proof of its mechanical health.
The IWC Yacht Club was introduced in 1967 as a sportier, more fun alternative to the Ingenieur, and quickly became one of the most successful models from Schaffhausen through the late sixties and seventies.
Almost every example you will find houses the automatic caliber 8541, IWC's celebrated Pellaton-wound movement, which makes this particular watch something of an anomaly: inside beats the hand-wound caliber 89.
The caliber 89 needs no introduction: it is one of the most respected manual movements in Swiss watchmaking history and it was produced from 1946 to 1979. It made its name inside the Mark XI, the legendary pilot's watch built for the British Ministry of Defense, and went on to power IWC dress watches and, in rare cases like this one, the Yacht Club.
Finding one in a Yacht Club is really uncommon, and it gives the watch a different character altogether: no date, no rotor, just a perfect symmetry matched with a slim 36mm case.
The condition is spectacular. The case and the fitted seven-link Gay Frères bracelet with IWC folding clasp show almost no signs of wear, as if this watch spent most of its life waiting for the right wrist.
Gay Frères, for those unfamiliar, was the Geneva-based bracelet manufacturer behind some of the most iconic bracelets in watchmaking, from the Rolex Oyster to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Finding an original Gay Frères on an IWC in this condition is a rare thing in itself.
Together with the purchase, you receive a one-year warranty and a Timegrapher report showing amplitude, rate, and beat error, proof of its mechanical health.
A Yacht Club for the purist, with a rare movement for the reference, matched with a beautiful iconic bracelet.
Yet another Datejust: this time in reference 1601, from 1973, with the sought after Sigma dial in silver. What the Sigma means is that on this watch, both hands and indexes are in white gold.
The feature of reference 1601 is the white gold bezel, which Rolex started mounting on its Datejust from this reference onwards.
The watch is powered by the strong and reliable caliber 1570, which was recently serviced and just checked in our atelier. It comes with the classic Jubilee bracelet, reference 5251H, end links 55, which can easily accommodate a 18.5mm wrist.
The 36mm case is in great conditions and shows the correct brushed and polished finishing.
It comes with its original box.
Together with the purchase, you receive a one-year warranty and a Timegrapher report showing amplitude, rate, and beat error, proof of its mechanical health.
Servicing
At BRUTTO, every mechanical watch is serviced to WOSTEP standards.
Full overhaul, Witschi timing report, and a one-year warranty.
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Every watch has a story. At BRUTTO, we help you keep it alive. Book an appointment in Zurich to discover our curated collection or to get your watch checked.