Horological Meandering

Eterna Madison: Quite a rare bird

 

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.