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jeffpkla
 Post subject: Wakmann/Marvin query?
PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:05 pm 
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Hello everyone, I'm a relatively new collector and I hope you don't mind me asking a little help as I learn proper history.

I recently picked up a vintage watch advertised as a Marvin Wakmann, with a Marvin brand dial, a Wakmann case and an MSR P13 movement, purportedly dating from the mid-1960s.

Is there anyone who can shed light on whether Marvin ever used Wakmann components (or vice versa)? I'm curious to know if the watch (which I enjoy anyway) is original from that period, or a "Frankenstein" made from spare parts more recently.

I'll be eternally grateful for your expertise.

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Thanks in advance!


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:15 pm 
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Wakmann did act as agents for some other brands at different points in their life, but I have never heard of a Marvin connection so my gut says franken, but see if other people have seen any.
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 Post subject: Wakmann + Marvin?
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:46 am 
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Hello everyone, I'm a relatively new collector and I hope you don't mind me asking a little help as I learn proper history.

I recently picked up a vintage watch advertised as a Marvin Wakmann, with a Marvin brand dial, a Wakmann case and an MSR P13 movement, purportedly dating from the mid-1960s.

Is there anyone who can shed light on whether Marvin ever used Wakmann components (or vice versa)? I'm curious to know if the watch (which I enjoy anyway) is original from that period, or a "Frankenstein" made from spare parts more recently.

I'll be eternally grateful for your expertise.

:bow:

Thanks in advance!!


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 Post subject: Re: Wakmann + Marvin?
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:58 am 
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Please don't double post. Merging with your other thread.
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Apologies! It just seems like maybe it would attract more responses in the other forum. I can delete and re-post there if that would be easier!
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jeffpkla wrote:
Apologies! It just seems like maybe it would attract more responses in the other forum. I can delete and re-post there if that would be easier!



This is the more active forum, and this is the more appropriate forum, otherwise I would have moved it.
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