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Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

I’ll make this short and sweet. I love watches and own all different types and brands. Big fan of pocket watches, mechanical watches, and automatic watches. I do have this particular watch that I do not know much of. I’ve read the wiki page and that’s about it. Other than that I can not find anything on this watch I purchased some years ago. It is called a Cyma Day Date. Swiss movement, automatic with 25 jewels. Pretty heavy piece, quite nice, and also has an issue. I used to be able to wind it manually until one day I couldn’t wind it manually. If I wear it and rotate it with my wrist and such it will run and runs very well. Has to be fixed and I’ll get to that. I just want to know more about this watch. Does anyone know when this Cyma day dates were made? How did they come to be? The year they were released? It does not say Cyma automatic or CYMA 1862. Just Cyma Day & Date. I changed the band to a Seiko one because the original would fall off at any moment. I’ll see if I can attach some pictures. Thank you all guys and have an early Happy New Year!
 

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Made in the late 70s/80s. A lot of brands those times made similar looking watches, not to say Rolex-look-a-likes, such as
Mido Commander Automatic, Mod. 8299-1,
Mido Commander Automatic, Mod. 8259
Bulova Super Seville Automatic,
Enicar Automatic, model AR 3169,
Sandoz, ETA Automatic 25 jewels,
SANDOZ DayDate Bicolor (1985)
Sowan West End Watch Prima,
Philip Watch Caribbean Master,
Tudor 76200 California Dial,
Dugena, Rotary, Roamer,
all housing an ETA 2834 movement.
Invicta Royal Marine, Automatic, with cal. AS 1882 / 1883 /1885
Mirexal Superautomatic with AS 1883
Ricoh Automatic, cal. ricoh 21
Buler Automatic Day Date, cal. BFG 158/ 31/7 CLDD.

Most offered a variety of models, in stainless steel, bi-color (plated), gold (plated), with diamonds and without diamonds on dial.
 
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That style persisted through the 90s or so, in terms of that being the Rolex that other brands "homaged."

The Bulova Super Seville lasted past the 80's as I recall, and some variants of the Wittnauer QWR mimic that Rolex style to some degree. I'm sure there are dozens more we're forgetting.

CYMA was a Swiss brand, IIRC the brand went under but was bought out and resurrected. While still existing as Swiss Made, their main markets seem to be Asian (?)
 
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