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In Response To: Magnetism ()

Hi

Antimagnetic watches appeared in the mid late 50's till the mid 60's and were baught by specific consumers like people working in the railroad companies, near electric fields or engineers. Antimagnetic watches that are the most famous: the Railmasterwith its 30t2 based calibre, the IWC Ingenieur (the highest antimagnetic watch built in the late 50's mid 60's) and the Rolex Milgauss. The Railmaster and the Migauss has a specific Iron soft cover and movement treatment, the IWC Ingenieur had an inside specific iron cage enabling the watch to a perfect resistance to magnetism. Besides that the most antimagnetic movements are old Omega inhouse movements,Lemania chrono movements, Rolex old and new movements and IWC 80110 movements found in the new Ingenieur.The lemania 5100 was chosen by the luftwaffe and nato pilot not only it is a bulletproof movement but a highly antimagnetic movement.Eta has never been involved in the production of antimagnetic movements and the resistance of eta to anti magnetism is far too go on paar with the calibres I quoted.

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georges

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