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Bill in Sacramento
PostPosted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:45 pm 
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Lang and Meis, Chronograph Wristwatches: To Stop Time (Schiffer, 1993) shows an early Breitling on page 84 and identify the movement as a Lemania. That "check mark" shaped bridge is common to early Lemania and Minerva chronograph bridges.

[The reference to the "lower dial" being marked should have been translated as the underside of the dial, but I think more correctly dial side of the movement."


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I have that book and never noticed that :oops:

It goes to show that large wristwatches are nothing new, although in the years after WWI the focus was on trying to reduce the size rather than the current trend.
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Beautiful~! Very very choice...

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This one was posted recently on another site.
Can anyone identify the movement. Is it a Lemania?

http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread ... ost2718634
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Not sure what that is.

It has some Lemania like qualities, but I think that the Lemania single pusher chronos had 17 jewels.
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