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·INCOMING x-posted on Instagram @jerxeer. If you've been following my watch collecting journey for long enough, you'll know that I've been hunting for an Evil Clapton (881101/02) for a long time now and missed out on a fantastic example from Japan a couple years ago (@Dre might recall). Fast forward to today, my friend Elias came across this peculiar piece model reference 222102/2 which the previous owner assumed was a 'wrong caseback', and had wanted to polish off the model reference or replace the caseback. Dedicated a fair amount of research with some of the leading UG collectors worldwide (@subregister ; @Diabolik ; @ELV web ; @jordn ) to discover these were the earliest examples of Claptons with serial 2,335,xxx dating to 1963/1964. So far all the examples we've found of the 222102 were in the same range within a thousand meaning probably less than 500 of the these in each dial variation 222102/1 and 222102/2 were made. Again I theorize but a good @subregister guess would be probably less than a 100 of these were ever made before they transitioned the model reference to the more commonly seen 881101. With that said, this is a very special piece and will be staying in the collection for a long time to come.
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