THE ESSENTIALS

MAKE: UNIVERSAL GENEVE
MODEL: 204610-2
YEAR: 1960
CASE DIAMETER: 34MM
CASE MATERIAL: STAINLESS STEEL
BRACELET MATERIAL: LEATHER
MOVEMENT: AUTOMATIC

Early Polerouters featured "bumper" automatic movements (such as the calibre 138SS), which we absolutely love—partly because of the satisfying bump you feel as the rotor reaches the end of its travel. In the mid-1950s, however, Universal Genève filed patent no. 329805, describing a revolutionary micro-rotor movement in which the winding rotor was integrated into the movement rather than mounted above it. This allowed the manufacture to produce some of the thinnest automatic movements of the era, including the calibre 218-2 found in this lovely ref. 204610-2.

Simply lovely.