Description:
Desta 17J ladies' wrist watch, vintage mechanical manual-wind movement, mint silver-toned metal dial with a sunburst brushed finish and raised silver markers, silver steel baton-style hands, heavy white base metal (WBM) & stainless steel (SS) round case with a rough paintbrush-style crosshatch engraving design on the slightly tapered bezel surrounding the lightly domed plastic crystal and on the 3-finger extended lugs that connect to the matching band, case is showing light normal wear overall with a few light scratches on the back and a bit of discoloration at the edge of the bezel & frame at 9 o'clock, measures approx. 24mm diameter x 32mm lug to lug x 8mm thick (crystal included), matching heavy bracelet-style WBM band with the same crosshatch engraving across all segments and on the fold-over clasp, band has some light discoloration in a few spots but is also showing only light even wear overall, total wearable length is approx. 147mm. A very attractive and distinctive mechanical movement watch from the 1960s in excellent overall condition!
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