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Re: Import to be or not to be [message #7801 is a reply to message #7797]

Sat, 18 February 2017 17:32

JackW
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In response to Barney's alternative hypothesis... ratchet wheel is plain; consistent with the 1941 date of the watch. Movement is clearly a cal 411 15 jewel 10-1/2L size. These were gone from the list of movements per Mikes tables by 1943.

Also, the German site "Gruen Watch" shows one since we don't have one in our online data base. Although Skirby posted one of these with a degraded lume/dial issue.

One additional thing of note is that the style of the dial, with the number font and subsecond chapter was by 1944 using a cal 421 (in the ad it is top row, right side). There is also an auto-wind Lexington but these were later (ca. 1950) and did not reuse the style of dial.

I'll go find my VT Lexington and post an image.

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		VT Lexington By: Timeticker on Fri, 17 February 2017 16:40
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: JackW on Sat, 18 February 2017 06:24
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Barney Green on Sat, 18 February 2017 07:49
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: JackW on Sat, 18 February 2017 17:32
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Barney Green on Sat, 18 February 2017 18:08
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Sun, 19 February 2017 23:45
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Sun, 19 February 2017 23:55
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Barney Green on Mon, 20 February 2017 08:05
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Mon, 20 February 2017 14:36
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Barney Green on Mon, 20 February 2017 14:58
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Mon, 20 February 2017 15:16
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Mon, 20 February 2017 15:20
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Thojil on Mon, 20 February 2017 15:26
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: JackW on Mon, 20 February 2017 18:47
		Re: Import to be or not to be By: Timeticker on Tue, 21 February 2017 02:01

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