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Re: Description of Lot 12 -- FRANKEN WATCH!
In Response To: Re: Description of Lot 12 -- Are They Saying, "Franken"? ()

Yes indeed Paolo, very well spotted! It is an early case being massively over polished! I am told, by someone who knows more than me, that the Valjoux 72 movement in this watch is also the later version used at end of the 60s!! Unbelievable!!

: How can you call ‘unpolished’ such an overpolished case?

: An apprentice watch restorer tried to transform the lugs into the
: Oyster shape!!

: Paolo

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