Kelton - History, Models and Owners' Reviews

For me, a KELTON is above all a look, and a reliable watch. Exactly the characteristics of mine. It keeps time really well and has still not been serviced since I bought it 35 years ago! Afterwards, given the cost of a service at a watchmaker and the price of a KELTON, you really have to care about it to carry out a service. I also really like its diver look, but which fully assumes its 25 meters of water resistance. In other words, it is not waterproof at all. But hey, at that price, you can't have a 20 or 30 ATM either. Afterwards, the most important thing is that I like it

KELTON models are countless and can become the theme of a watch collection in its own right. Here is one that I like for several details. First, its unusual purple dial, which can turn black. Then, its hands match the raised indexes that contrast with the dial and ensure perfect readability. Beautiful case shape, day/date complication. Nothing extravagant, but a nice design, a beautiful state of conservation, and exemplary reliability. A KELTON! Otherwise, the mechanics are like the rest: in all simplicity.

I was rocked, fed, even stuffed by KELTON advertising in my youth. "You change yourself ..... change your KELTON". I was already interested in watches in the 70s, it was the popular brand par excellence that we could not escape. Here is my first KELTON, which still works very well, without any revision for almost 40 years. I do not wear it anymore because it is a little small now (my wrist has grown in the meantime). I had bought it because the dial and the hands looked like the BENRUS 3061 (watch that I liked a lot at the time).