HELP: Identify this Solid Gold Watch from the '70s

Hi,

could you please help identify this SOLID GOLD watch?

At the back of the casing, it is engraved "Zurich 1973" and a number starting with 000961xxx.

Thanks in advance.

Bit of a bizarre number you quoted...i've not got an answer for you i'm afraid but i've got my popcorn ready.

The number has been engraved manually so it might not be the actual serial number

I did'nt think it was the serial number, any numbering beginning with three 0's would seem to have a touch of Franklin Mint about 'em.

Hope somebody interjects for you. 

Hi IWCTAMAROS,

The date window of this watch looks very obscure. Does the watch have an electronic or a mechanical movement? A wild assumption on my part is that a movement and a dial have been put together here that don't really belong together. The dial belongs to a day-date display, the movement only has a date display. The date display of the movement somehow does not match the dial. I'm afraid ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ was involved in putting this watch together.

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Cromagnonman

Wasnt there a tale about some Arabian gents floppin on Schaffhausen ( post watch fair) and ordering a few dozen all 18ct offerings after insisting they were olde school and wanted mechanical movements...and getting served.

That said ^..the date looks too far into the dial for an 8541.

Was'nt there movement supply issues at the time ( birth of the Rlx 1530)?

Very interesting theories Catherine,

nevertheless, I would doubt that IWC delivered such a watch.

- Cromagnonman 

Yeah ^...i doubt it's the model highlighted in this thread ( gold yacht clubs could have been served without mither) if the tale is even factual...though if somebody fancied a funky electronic specific case shape with a mechanical movement and wanted a dozen x a dozen in '73..i wouldnt wager a lot on it not being considered. 

* In 1973, the price of gold closed at $106.48 per troy ounce, which was a 66.79% increase from 1972.