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But Ive been gathering some info over the years (who hasnt ?) and stuck it into a presentation

Have a glance and please comment , but be gentle
And I am not concluding a lot yet , look at it as a discussion opening
For instance, the supposedly misprinted early 806's with a serial that starts with an 8 but really start with 9 etc , I have not concluded yet , maybe a conclusion will follow naturally from the gathered data ?

I cant upload the PDF's so I have linked them from elsewhere

Roff, If you can put it on the site somewhere I can take these links off ?

presentation http://members.casema.nl/rene.kesting/806/806.pdf

data http://members.casema.nl/rene.kesting/806/806%20investigation.xls

Right click on link,. choose 'save as' and open locally to prevent viewing issues

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

Great job Dracha!

I'll need to go through it in more detail to provide some more considered thoughts, but a couple of brief knee jerk comments

- The serial # gaps may well be due to shared serial number ranges between chrono and non chrono
- There were a number of beads of rice variations, not simply small / large but 4 or 5 different bead counts

If you have more info on the serial numbers and the bezel bead counts I can add (and recount the beads again )

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

Dracha, the serial numbers have already been cleared last year. (Vide letter from Breitling / viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19598 )

Counting beads truly is a hell of a job. My recommendation: Take a pic of the watch/bezel, make an enlarged printout and count the beads by writing beside each bead the number. Repeat at least 3 times on a new printout. If the results differ, ..... start all over again!

Chris

Thanks Chris !

regarding the serial numbers , I believe there's enough evidence (even without the Breilting letter) to say that there are no pre-'54's

but personally I have never seen any more than the 2 different bezels , even after recounting several all the large beads seems to have the same numer and so do the small beads ?

and the spreadsheet with details assists me in dating something correctly , to see if the movement is correct or whether or not work was performed on it

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

I started going through the links in your Excel spreadsheet, just haven't had time to count them all and get consistent numbers.