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or seen for that matter. One family owned since 1946. The balance broke about 50 years ago and its been in a drawer ever since. Hope you like it. Craig

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S. Craig Bergsma

Gorgeous piece ! And i am not even a chronomat fan but i like this one

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

nice !

no, Renè - Chronomat aren't nice, not collectible, not interesting at all, actually. please don't like them ?

Gorgeous piece - but what a waste to have spent 50 years in a drawer!

Thanks for clarifying that Fred, the longer I look at it the more I think , they have a certain finesse and panache , but you convinced me that cannot be the case

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

oy.

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Glad to see such a great piece working again

The owner requested some more information on the Venus 175 movement. If you are into history, you will like this (some of you probably know this already):
"Perhaps the most interesting item in the Venus 175 history is ironically how we came to be the recipients of its clone via Seagull in relatively recent times. Around 1957, a factory in Moscow started producing a copy of an earlier Venus Caliber - the 150. This was the legendary 'Strela' movement. A few years later Venus was planning to reduce the number of movements they offered and were planning to offer an upgrade of the 175 - the 180. But they realized they needed money to do so which they would generate by selling some redundant tooling they didn't need. They first tried to sell it to the Soviets (who had already shown an interest in copying them) but they were happy with the Strela and turned them down. But it just so happened that at the same time the Chinese Airforce was in need of a pilot's chronograph and for political reasons could no longer buy Strela's from the Soviets. So Venus offered them the 175 by selling them all the tooling to make the movements. Here is a picture of an early 175 seen in a Chinese military pilots watch. It was only in production for military purposes for a time and then was eventually released to civilians as the Seagull ST-19 in more modern times."
PS - I have worked on several of these clone movements and they are not up to par with the original Venus units. I will NOT guarantee any work that I do on these due to their substandard quality and generally decline working on them.

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S. Craig Bergsma

Interesting! Didn't know that, and is another historical pearl that makes me love horology more and more!

Oh wow... amazing.

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"I don't got the bright watch I got the right watch" -Jay Z

Beautiful piece, thanks for the history!


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