Details
CIRCA: 1968
CASE NO: 2472
CASE MATERIAL: Stainless steel
CASE DIAMETER: 41.5 mm. wide
BRACELET MATERIAL: Stainless steel
BRACELET SIZE: Approx. 200 mm. overall length
DIAL: Black
MOVEMENT: Automatic
FUNCTIONS: Date
BOX: Yes
PAPERS: Yes
WITH: Undated Technos Warranty Card, Guarantee, sales receipt dated 31 December 1968, sales tags, copy of Stars and Stripes from 31 December 1968, military patch, presentation box and outer packaging
REMARK: Purchased by a US Army soldier in Vietnam on New Year's Eve
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Purchased by a young US Army soldier in Vietnam on New Year’s Eve December 31, 1968, this watch amazingly still retains its original original box, papers, and sales receipt.

Enhancing the lot, it comes with an original issue of the Stars & Stripes which was published on the same day that the watch was purchased. The military newspaper’s front page story features an image of the very first “Earthrise,” captured by the astronauts of the Apollo 8 Mission a week earlier on Christmas Eve when they became the the first people to orbit the moon.

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