Vintage Arcadia Military Grade Steel Watch and 49 similar items

This is a remarkable although very small military grade steel watch. All steel case only measures 28mm. Very small by today?s standards but this was the norm back in the day. The watch is all original down to the crown and possibly the strap as well. The watch is uncleaned and I don?t think it was serviced in recent years but it?s unbelievably accurate regardless. Movement is an ETA cal 1080. The Arcadia brand originated in Fleurier in Switzerland in 1858. It was positioned as the top-of-the-line watchmaker among the five watchmaking brands of the Fleurier Watch Company, a manufacturer established in 1915. The company specialized in jewel cutting and designing watch calibers and had federated watchmaking farmers into working cooperatively with each other. Fleurier Watch Company supplied movements for over a century to many watch brands. While Arcadia had started off producing movements, it followed several years later with a watch line. Arcadia was in fact one of the earliest brands to sell its watches around the world, including China and South America, and it was an avant-garde brand that became the flagship of the Fleurier Watch Company.