1960s Lucerne Dive Watch

Brand and Manufacturer - Lucerne, Switzerland Year - 1989 Serial - Unknown Model - Unknown Movement & caliber - Mechanical Cal. 22 Case diameter - 34.5 mm A manual wind stainless steel and chrome plated Lucerne dive watch. This very cool dive watch was made during the 1960's as the demand for reasonably priced dive watches increased in the United States. Lucerne is one of those Swiss brands that is no longer with us due to the great purge of the quartz revolution. Named after the Swiss town, this company was New York based company owned by German Americans and employed a number of European immigrants assembling watches and retailing this domestically. There were a number of these smaller companies that helped knit the fabric of the small watch producers to get wrist watches on every arm in America.The watch has all the design hallmarks of classic dive watches from the period. Black glossy dial, large legible hour markers at 12, 6, 9 o'clock which are framed by extra large Lume