Since the chronograph world has lost its mind, I have been digging around gold three-handers, an old enthusiasm of mine. About a year and a half ago I stumbled across a french-cased 133.8 in a shop in Paris. Since everyone has a knee-jerk aversion to Non-Swiss cases, I had to indulge my contrarian urges and buy it. Since then, I have kept an eye out for these dress models which seem to be unusual carefully made. The dial invariably has applied markers and a two-tone finish, and is housed in a fairly straightforward circular case with a mock stepped bezel. I have yet to find one with a cal 71.
This early model is in a snap back case featuring unusually elegant spearpoint hands. Dial & movement are marked as foreign manufacture, as required by French law.
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Casemaker is EA in a lozenge - anyone know what entity that is?
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