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Lets see your vintage watches

Bart Cordell

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PaulyWalnuts

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[MENTION=53529]DVNE[/MENTION] awesome pictures of the small crown 5508, it's beautiful. The chamfers, the gilt dial, everything. Congrats [emoji41]
Vintage Tudor for the past couple days:
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Text from today´s wristshot for the story: vintage Cal. 616 Cortébert Spéciale railroad watch, famous for it´s accuracy and longlasting reliability. In the 1930´s Cortébert supplied this movement to Rolex, who in turn were suppliers and had a cooperation agreement with Guiseppe Panerai to produce movements like this for dive watches. The rest is watch history of the finest - to the delight of all vintage Panerai aficcionados. Another delight is to wind these with their rock-solid and buttery smooth clicking of the winding gears and to see the seconds at six slowly but steadily sweep away the time after 80++ years. If You turn this by 90º degrees to the right to fit in a Panerai caseset - You magically have seconds at nine. Cortébert themselves were later taken over by Omega ... before finally disappearing in the mid-seventies Quartz-crisis. The watches they will go on for a long time.
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Retina

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[MENTION=72466]Daywatch[/MENTION] interesting history :). Mine still works after all these years... Amazingly rock solid movements

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Omega 166.024 on black Golay Playa
Tudor 9411 on blue Golay Playa
Omega 165.024 on black Nato
BPFF No Rads on Tropic

Kind of hard to decide which to wear tomorrow. [emoji2]

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Retina

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Been awhile since I last wore this :)


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NCRich

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Yes, I'm not stupid. I took it off before I went diving.

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Retina

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[MENTION=36888]NCRich[/MENTION] lo... nice comex :)
 

Retina

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I agree and this was my choice today as well. MBW
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I didn't manage to catch it when it was offered again in the other realm :) it's a gorgeous piece, wear in good health my friend ^^ here's my 6538 instead..

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Hugop

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Very nice big crown! Love the lollipop seconds and is that adrians V2 Brevet?

Who's dial BTW?

Great looking setup!

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Retina

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[MENTION=17786]Hugop[/MENTION] done by dlf aka Rik ;)

its adrian's v2 brevet with a hr dial aged by daz

the case work is the killer part - Rik had the lugs laser welded and chamfered to give it that gen curve :drool: