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April Fool's Day.

Nominate the image of a watch in Richter's book that, to your eyes, is most outrageously wrong (apologies to those of you without a copy of Richter).

I nominate "Breitling chronograph circa 1942 (upper right)" on page 44. It features block "BREITLING GENEVE" on the dial.

The winner will receive a limerick dedicated to the winning image.

I guess simply because of the size of the (colour) photo I'll go with the '1952' Navitimer on page 133. Dial from a gold 806 in a SS case with later hands and sliderule.

A few more redials on those two pages as well.

This one had me scratching my head for a long time until i realised it was wrong.

Page 102, bottom left.

It believe it's the first generation AVI 765 with the minute counter, but this one has been given odd white subdials and a very strange Breitling signature, not to mention wrong hands!!

Should I believe look like this.

with only two entries.

But I hereby announce that Roffensian is our winner and please step forward to claim your prize:

There once was an odd Navitimer.
For faults there were none that were minor.
The dial was for gold.
The hands were not old.
But to Richter, no chrono was finer.

I guess simply because of the size of the (colour) photo I'll go with the '1952' Navitimer on page 133. Dial from a gold 806 in a SS case with later hands and sliderule.

Aww shucks

I'd like to thank my Mum, my agent, Bill in Sacramento and all (!) of my competitors for such a great contest.

I assume to recuse yourself as the judge Bill.

WooHoo -- Does that mean I'm second? LOL.

Actually, the final decision was contracted to a private consulting firm in Buenos Aires, whose brochure notes their expertise in vintage Breitlings. Their invoice shows that they contacted their subsidiary offices in Kiev, Hong Kong, and Istanbul before picking our winner.

And, my apologies. The runner-up prize is a really, really bad haiku.

The script is not right;
Willy has begun to laugh.
Still, sort of sexy.