Contoli Superman Ref. 24.11.17

Beautiful and rare watch steel diving bracelet (Contoli being the Yema distributor in Italy). Superb blue dial with dated counter at 3am. Mechanical movement with automatic reassembly.

Cantoli is part of one of the Yema brand distributors. It was in Besançon that the brand was founded in 1948 by Henri Louis Belmont descending from a watchmaker's family. Major out of his promotion from the watchmaking school in 1931 with a silver medal. He will quickly take an interest in sports watches in differ field: diving, piloting or yachting.

It was in 1953 that she revealed a historic diving watch. La Superman, the first French watch waterproof at 200m.

The proposed model is a Contoli Superman Ref 241117. 38mm diameter round steel box topped with a 60mn graduated black bezel. U Luminescent index, central second hand at the red end.

A remarkable vintage in every way to collect in priority