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Re: what is it?
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I did ask the seller if it said 'Swiss' underneath the 6 o'clock marker. The response was 'I can't see', but said it was genuine. Strangely, the response has only just arrived!

Stewart

: "Ritzel" can be translated as pinion Mike, but I'd
: probably translate it as gear or gearwheel here. Most of us
: probably understood the pinion reference anyway :) Reminds me a
: bit of teaching the youngest class at a Gymnasium (~grammar
: school for the English-speakers, not a gym as we understand it),
: who were fascinated by someone from another country speaking
: their language and the boys thought they would try and catch me
: out with technical car-related words, just what years of reading
: auto motor und sport had prepared me for! That display of
: car-related knowledge earned me many fizzy snakes the next day!

: Definitely a Bund with a lot of issues around authenticity.

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