Eterna Madison: Quite a rare bird

Nov 28, 2014,16:22 PM
 

Just received my latest watch today. While it was not a Black Friday purchase, the price was still very attractive.
And the watch is quite interesting: An Eterna Madison Sperodrive, a tonneau-shaped time only (hours, minutes and central seconds) manual wind watch with a rectangular shaped manufacture movement made by Eterna. The specialty of the movement is the spring barrel, which is supported by a ball bearing mechanism with 5 small ceramic balls.
There's also an 8-day version of the watch with power reserve display and a big date, but I like the look of the more dressy time-only version of the watch a lot more.
For such a classic-looking dress watch, the size is a bit on the larger side (47mm long from lug end to lug end), but it's quite thin (9.3mm according to the Eterna web site) and wears comfortably, but only after I had swapped the folding clasp by a tang buckle.

And here are the pictures.

Nice wooden box:





The watch in the box:




Wrist shot:




Side shot with the Eterna logo-styled crown:



Backside showing the (in my opinion) attractive layout of the bridges:





I hope that Eterna continues its current path of developing more of their own movements, and I can definitely see myself adding another Eterna to my collection in the future.


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Glad to see this one

 
 By: rnaden : November 28th, 2014-19:37
You don't see much talk of modern Eterna's, but I have to say that this one looks nice, especially the movement layout and design. Are those heat blued screws on the movement? Congratulations on this acquisition and thanks for sharing with us.

Not sure about the bluing process...

 
 By: Bodo : November 28th, 2014-20:32
The screws might be heat-blued or chemically blued with bluing only thing I can say is that the slots of the screws are blue too, so there was no nickel coating anywhere on the screws at the time of bluing.

Finally! I'm thrilled to see a Purist taking the plunge . . .

 
 By: Dr No : November 29th, 2014-13:31
. . . on one of the few watches that have been on my wish-list for many years other than GS or G O. Why? A manufacturer in the truest sense of the term. A case that's utterly pleasing. Fitting dimensions and proportions. An austere dial of classic design.... 

Winding the watch

 
 By: Bodo : November 29th, 2014-15:00
Glad you like the watch. The reasons you described are pretty much in sync with my views on it. As for the winding, it feels quite smooth. I'd say it is comparable to the two manual wind Reversos that I have. It's not as smooth as my Rolex Prince (which i...