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 Post subject: Fabrication or anomoly?
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:01 am 
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Strange looking Nav dating to 1970. Looks to me as if someone has installed a Wakmann movement in it but rather unusual with the early style bridge. Sweep second hand reminds me of some I have seen on LIP watches.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1970-CHRONOGRAPH-BREITLING-NAVITIMER-FRANCE-CO-BRANDED-WATCH-/181265185983?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item2a343f3cbf
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fabrication for me.
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Fab for me and not the the Lads from Liverpool.

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Wakman mvmnt in an 806 case ?

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Not the first time this pawn man has had some questionable watches.
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Why co-branded? Caliber taken of from a Wakmann chrono recased in a Navi . Sweephand from a Lip Nautic Ski or somethink like that .
Lip in Besançon - France was acting as a " global player"
1/ manufacturing their own watches - including some chronos with V178 inside -
2/ assemblying some Breitling watches ( Navi, Cosmo, Avi , 815 ) with co- branded dials for the french market
3/ manufacturing watches for Wakmann under Gigandet and Wakmann brands
4/ distrubuting several high end swiss brands on the french market
5/ distributing horological supplies on the french market
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