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PORSCHE DESIGN MILITARY by Orfina

manodeoro

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TRUE STORY !!!

Today I let some tears go ... I had no other choice ... or perhaps punch my father-in-law very badly.

Me and my wife are spending a WE at my step-parents home ... 100m from the sea [emoji3]
This late afternoon I showed my father-in-law some pics of his 16610 (Rep) I'm refurbishing since a few weeks.

He's been impressed and delighted and told me he has a badly damaged Military Porsche Design ... a Gen ... bought in 1979 from a Legionnaire just back from Zaire.

When he showed me the watch I was stunned and asked him if she really had jumped on Kolwezi without parachute.
But he replied that no, she was just damaged some years later in a bad car crash (certainly a few rolls over before stopping).

Just have a look at the disaster

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I really dont know if I'll accept the challenge.
That said ... If my father-in-law promises to lend it to me 6 months a year then I could be tempted.
For now I'll leave it to him and will decide in September ... Then I'll have some more free time and I will have the guts to see what happened to the Lemania 5100 that hides in there and that certainly is in very bad condition.

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UDTMIKE

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Man, you got to bring this watch back to life. I to was in Zaire in the late 70"s and early 80"s when Mobuto was still in power. And Holden Roberto was fighting the Cubans on the Angola/Zaire border. VIVA FNLA
 

Rambo73

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TRUE STORY !!!

Today I let some tears go ... I had no other choice ... or perhaps punch my father-in-law very badly.

Me and my wife are spending a WE at my step-parents home ... 100m from the sea [emoji3]
This late afternoon I showed my father-in-law some pics of his 16610 (Rep) I'm refurbishing since a few weeks.

He's been impressed and delighted and told me he has a badly damaged Military Porsche Design ... a Gen ... bought in 1979 from a Legionnaire just back from Zaire.

When he showed me the watch I was stunned and asked him if she really had jumped on Kolwezi without parachute.
But he replied that no, she was just damaged some years later in a bad car crash (certainly a few rolls over before stopping).

Just have a look at the disaster

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I really dont know if I'll accept the challenge.
That said ... If my father-in-law promises to lend it to me 6 months a year then I could be tempted.
For now I'll leave it to him and will decide in September ... Then I'll have some more free time and I will have the guts to see what happened to the Lemania 5100 that hides in there and that certainly is in very bad condition.

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I can give $300 for the bracelet if the project turn sour
 

manodeoro

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Old post and old life ...
I fixed that watch some months later but my ex-father in law couldn't wear it for long as he got a cancer and died ... "ex" because his daughter is now my ex-wife.
 

Rambo73

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Old post and old life ...
I fixed that watch some months later but my ex-father in law couldn't wear it for long as he got a cancer and died ... "ex" because his daughter is now my ex-wife.
Wow... sometime things happen so fast. Sorry for your lost !
what happened to the watch you repaired in the process of all thoses life changes ?
 

manodeoro

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Wow... sometime things happen so fast. Sorry for your lost !
what happened to the watch you repaired in the process of all thoses life changes ?

no idea 🙄 as I wrote the divorce was a "fighting" one so I don't speak to my ex anymore ...