Heritage 72 Vanilla Cream

I was visiting my case factory a while ago hoping to score some free gaskets and I saw this dusted box sitting in the corner of the warehouse that has export markings on it. The factory owner said they made these watchcases for a French brand (now closed) back in the 70s but never sold them due to financial reasons. So.... some begging and bargaining later, they are in my possession. 

Since these are cases made some 50 years ago, of course I have to pair them with vintage movements as well, it wasn't easy finding vintage movements in large quantities, luckily Taiwan was the OEM hub for lots of watch brands in the early days and I was able to track down an inventory of Swiss A. Schild movements that was intended to use on Ogival watches, they come in both manual and automatic versions, and you can choose which to fit in the watch. 

~ Swiss A. Schild AS5103 automatic or AS5101 manual movement

 

~ Case diameter 36x39mm

 

~ Thickness 11mm

 

~ Handmade dial with brass indices

 

~ Domed acrylic crystal

 

~ 18mm geniune leather band

 

~ 3atm/30m water resistance

The cases and acrylic crystals were made more than 50 years ago, eventhough they are new old stock items, it is still inevitable to have some light to small blemishes. I opt not to refurbish/repolish them and rather keep them the way it is because I want the traces on time to be seen on the watch.