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Rare Vintage Orient Swimmer Men’s Classic Quartz Sports Watch JDM 1970s
■ STATUS: SOLD
THIS TIMEPIECE HAS FOUND A NEW HOME
► SELLER'S DESCRIPTION
Up for sale is a rare vintage Orient Swimmer men’s classic quartz sports watch, produced for the Japan Domestic Market (JDM) in the 1970s. This model features a clean sport-style design with a highly legible dial, day-date display, and classic “Swimmer” branding, reflecting the practical everyday sports watches of the era.
The watch is being sold for parts and repair as it is currently not functioning and completely untested, so it is unknown what the issue is or if it can be fixed. The watch is missing its crown.
All parts of the watch are original aside from the missing crown. The watch comes on its original bracelet. The watch has signs of use and age. The photos best describe its physical condition.
Key Details:
• Brand: Orient
• Model: Swimmer
• Era: 1970s
• Origin: Japan Domestic Market (JDM)
• Movement: Quartz
• Bracelet: Original bracelet
• Condition: For parts and repair; not functioning and completely untested; missing crown; otherwise all original; signs of use and age — photos best describe its physical condition
A hard-to-find vintage Orient Swimmer model, ideal for restoration or parts.
Ships carefully. Feel free to message me with any questions.
► ARCHIVE FILE: ORIENT — BRAND HISTORY
Orient's roots reach back to 1901, when Shogoro Yoshida opened a watch shop in the Ueno district of Tokyo, growing the business into Toyo Tokei, a maker of gauges, table clocks, and wristwatches. That firm did not survive the postwar economy, but in 1950 production restarted at the old Hino factory as Tama Keiki Co., renamed Orient Watch Company in 1951. From the start the company concentrated on affordable mechanical watches built around movements designed and manufactured entirely in-house, a discipline it never abandoned.
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