Posted 11 years ago
chuckg
(23 items)
This is a unique stainless steel Tissot PR-516 24 hour Navigator Automatic I purchased at an estate sale. It has a dark blue/black face that turns iridescent blue when slightly shifted. It has a fixed bezel although several folks have told me it should move, a very knowledgeable watchmaker I know assured me it is fixed in place. The bezel is marked "24" at the 12 o'clock position and "12" at the 6 o'clock position. The numbers go clockwise. There are minute markers on the inner ring... I have spent several hours researching this on the net and have yet to find a duplicate. There was a similar one on a completed ebay auction but the red part of the bezel was on the upper portion of the dial, the reverse of this one. I'd say (I'm no expert here) that this is out of the 70s but any information on the timepiece, how to use this watch and the bezel would be appreciated. It keeps perfect time
Being a student, I bought a Tissot PR-516 24 hour Navigator Automatic in the late sixties, in Hamburg, from money I earned during summer holidays. Took me weeks until I learned why it was late always. It was a 24 hr watch....
I still have it, the bezel replaced 3 or 4 times, the last one is broken and gone, unfortunately. Was made of 2 plastic layers which tendend to separate every 3 or 4 years.
In the mid-nineties or so I managed to speak to an engineer with Tissot/Omega at Le L' Ocle /Switzerland re: ordering a new bezel. He advised that it would cost appr. 10,000 sfrs to re-establish the production line for the R-516 Navigator bezels, but then I could get a few thousands of them dirt cheap. I had to let go of that idea.
The bezel could be moved of course. It was a counter. You had to turn the "1" exactly to the hour-hand, and the bezel would show the time elapsed.