This image just popped up on Facebook. Any idea what this movement could be from? I've never seen it, but boy is it a looker.

 

That? Oh, that's just the first automatic chronograph movement, developed by Lemania and rejected by Omega in 1948.

http://www.businessmontres.com/lesl...ier-chronographe-mecanique-a-remontage-automa

 

Extremely interesting! To pity that that article is in French!

I call on Ludi or Stef to translate it for us non-french reading members.

 

No. I can't imagine that this thing, with its flimsy bumper rotor, would have worked as a chronograph without a lot of manual winding. It's like saying da Vinci invented the helicopter.

 

Google Chrome did this for me

 

Google translate is surprisingly good. At least 90% is readable.

 

Sometimes only 50% is readable.

 

At least I could successfully buying a watch from French only speaker, while my French skill is almost zero , thanks to Google translate.

 

That's because the money$ talks

 

Love to know more on this one! I love the 321 and you can clearly see the parts coming from that movement.

 

very true........greenback is the true lingua franca