we are happy to be able to offer you an extremely rare and important collectors piece from 1979 in new old stock condition.

this is the spectacular Eterna Linea Squelette, with a hight of 1,5 mm, once the thinnest quartz watch in the world and a super-exclusive goldwatch with highend sales prices back in the days.

as the swiss answer on the previous japanese worldrecord of the thinnest quartz watch, Eterna released the Deltem series (delirium tres mince = ultrathin) in 1979 faturing the groundbreaking ETA cal 999. Shortly after the release the series was renamed to the „quartz Linea series“. Also Longines, IWC and Concord used the Eta 999. Some executions have only been produced in a batch of 50 pieces. With sales prices between 20.000 and up to even 50.000 swiss francs the series was too expensive to be a succesful seller, so the production discontinued after only 2 years. Only a very few pieces still exist today.

The by far coolest and extravagant execution you will ever see is surely the skeleton dial. Please imagine how proud a brand must have been about this technical innovation in 1979 to show the quartz movement behind a window without a dial covering it. unthinkable nowadays but iconic back then. the caliber 999 is housed in an 18k yellowgoldcase, handmade by Favre & Perret who also made important cases for Patek Philippe. The time can be set about a small button on the caseback, so the watch does not even have a crown. 

The case has a size of 25 x 30 mm and comes with it´s original Eterna leatherstrap and the original goldbuckle with same pattern as the case features. The box is also part of the set. The Eterna Linea Squelette is in flawless condition and of course running perfectly. This is a true collectors piece and a hystorical important benchmark of horology, also one of the hottest watches designwise we have ever come across.