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  1. noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Mar 12, 2016

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    Reading about George Martin, the Beatles producer and ran across this photo. Can anyone identify the watch?

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  2. Geo! Mar 13, 2016

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    My guess is a MuDu Automatic.
     
  3. noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Mar 13, 2016

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    Yea Geo! Thanks. I think you're right after doing a search for MuDu.

    Never heard of it. Such "quality" doesn't trickle down to Texas very often. The brand has a murky history apparently. Brought into England in the 1960s on the sly through the docks at Southhampton and sold in pubs and factories through the "wanna buy a watch" method in order to avoid import duty. No distributor network, no jewelry store dealers, no strap included.

    Some wild claims out there about who actually made them including that the Blancpain factory workers assembled them in their off hours. Some were said to have respectable movements however, including a Felsa 4002 which was claimed to also have been used by Zenith.
     
  4. Jones in LA Isofrane hoarder. Mar 13, 2016

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    This could become a game of sorts...

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  5. noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Mar 13, 2016

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    I like the jacket.

    Don't recognize that watch either.
     
  6. Jones in LA Isofrane hoarder. Mar 13, 2016

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    Did someone say Game...?

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  7. Modest_Proposal Trying too hard to be one of the cool kids Mar 13, 2016

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    Either a Hamilton or a Breitling are the prime suspects.
     
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  8. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Mar 13, 2016

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    Breitling Top Time. Note the white tachy ring
     
  9. Norfolk Mar 31, 2017

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    Think it's this one. On my wrist right now. Sweet little thing that my wife likes. IMG_3023.JPG
     
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