Description
PAUL SMITH “Final Eyes” Limited Edition Chronograph — quartz wristwatch
MADE IN JAPAN
Paul Smith is a leading British independent design house known for its “classic with a twist” aesthetic, blending traditional tailoring with playful, eccentric detail. Its watches are designed in London and Nottingham but built in Japan by Citizen Watch Co., under a licensing partnership that has run since the 1990s — which is why these are engineered and assembled to the same standards as Citizen’s own watches, rather than being typical “fashion” watches.
About the “Final Eyes” Line
“Final Eyes” is one of Paul Smith’s best-known watch lines, and the name comes from the dial: the two upper sub-dials sit like a pair of eyes looking out of the face. The joke is carried onto the case back, which is engraved with the same two eyes as the collection’s signature mark. The cushion-shaped case with its faceted flanks nods to sports-chronograph design of the 1960s and 70s, and the line has run in many dial colours and case finishes over the years.
About This Watch
This is the 2017 commemorative Limited Edition of the Final Eyes Chronograph, reference 0520-T023819 (Japanese catalogue number BA4-612-11), produced in a run of 2,017 pieces to mark the year. The case back of this example is engraved Limited Edition 0757/2017, and its serial number — 7N1020757 — dates production to November 2017. The original owner’s receipt in the set is dated June 2018.
The dial is a warm silver with a fine engine-turned finish, applied polished baton markers, and a chapter ring whose first fifteen minutes are picked out in red — with a matching orange chronograph seconds hand sweeping over it. That red-on-silver flash is the “twist” hiding in an otherwise restrained dress-chronograph dial. The faceted pushers and crown carry a small blue cabochon stone on the upper pusher, a detail that is easy to miss until the light catches it.
The case is stainless steel with a mixture of brushed tops and polished flanks, and the watch runs on a Japanese quartz chronograph movement with a 60-minute counter (upper left), a 24-hour display (upper right), running seconds at six, and a date window between four and five o’clock. Rated to 10 bar.
Technical Specifications
- Brand: Paul Smith (manufactured by Citizen Watch Co., Japan)
- Model: Final Eyes Chronograph, 2017 Limited Edition
- Reference: 0520-T023819 (JP catalogue no. BA4-612-11)
- Limited edition number: 0757 / 2017
- Serial number: 7N1020757
- Production date: November 2017
- Movement: Japanese quartz chronograph, caliber 0520
- Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, 60-minute chronograph, 24-hour display
- Case: Stainless steel, cushion shape, brushed and polished
- Case width: Approx. 43 mm across the cushion case, excluding crown and pushers (the round bezel reads noticeably smaller on the wrist)
- Thickness: Approx. 12 mm
- Lug to lug: Approx. 47 mm
- Lug width: 19 mm
- Crystal: Mineral glass
- Water resistance: 10 bar (100 m) as marked on the case back
- Bracelet: Original stainless steel bracelet, full length, folding clasp
- Case back markings: 0520-T023819 · W.R.10BAR · ST.STEEL · MADE IN JAPAN · GN-4W-S · Limited Edition 0757/2017 · 7N1020757
Condition Report
Very good pre-owned condition for an eight-year-old watch that was clearly looked after. The dial is clean and bright with no spotting, staining or lifted markers, and all four hands and the three sub-dial hands are intact and correctly aligned. The crystal is clear with no chips or cracks. The steel case shows light handling marks and a few fine hairlines on the polished flanks, visible under direct light but not distracting at normal viewing distance; the case back has the shallow surface scratches normal for a screwed-down back that has been off for a battery. The bracelet is complete at full length with a working folding clasp and shows even light wear. The chronograph starts, stops and resets to zero correctly, and the 24-hour and date functions work as they should. Please see the photographs, which form part of this description.
Comes as a complete retail set: original Paul Smith box, instruction manual, warranty card and the original Japanese purchase receipt, plus the full-length steel bracelet.
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with original steel bracelet*.
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Why Collectors Want This Watch Today
Plenty of Final Eyes chronographs come up for sale. Very few of them are the numbered 2017 edition, and fewer still arrive the way this one has: box, manual, stamped warranty card and the original shop receipt, all together, with a low three-digit edition number on the back. That paper trail is what separates a documented example from the anonymous ones, and it is the part that cannot be reassembled later.
It also happens to be a lot of watch for the money. Because it wears a fashion-house name, it sits in the price bracket of a fashion watch — while the movement, the case finishing and the assembly are Citizen’s. The result is a well-made Japanese quartz chronograph with a genuinely original dial design, in a cushion case that has come back into style, for a fraction of what a comparable Citizen-branded chronograph asks.
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Lug-width matched leather straps — 18 / 19 / 20 mm
About the watch factory
Paul Smith is the quintessential British “classic with a twist” fashion house — but the manufacturing story behind its watches is a Japanese one.
The Japanese Connection: Citizen
For the great majority of Paul Smith watches, including the Final Eyes Chronograph, the manufacturer is Citizen Watch Co. of Japan.
- The partnership: Paul Smith has held a long-term licensing agreement with Citizen since the 1990s. Paul Smith’s teams in London and Nottingham handle the aesthetic design — the colours, the “eyes”, the hidden details — while Citizen handles the engineering, the movement production and the assembly.
- The quality: Because they are made by Citizen, these are not disposable fashion watches. They use Japanese quartz movements and are built to the same durability standards as Citizen’s own mainline models.
- Regional focus: Many of these watches were designed specifically for the Japanese market, where Paul Smith has long been popular. That is why the best examples, and the best information about them, tend to surface on Japanese collector sites.
Why Paul Smith?
Unlike designers who simply put a logo on a generic factory watch, Sir Paul Smith is a genuine watch enthusiast who collects vintage watches and cameras — which is why his designs so often reference a specific historical era rather than a current trend.
