Hello,

I know there are some Lemania fans here, so thought this might be of interest, Lemania Royal Navy 2 button Chronograph issued in 1975, this version was only issued in '75 and '76, so pretty rare. Powered by Lemania Calibre 1872. There are many other issued Lemania chronographs issued to other armed forces, but this is distinct in it's case is assymetrical. Hence commonly referred to as an assymetrical chronograph. I believe there is only this version in 2 button configuration form, from Lemania, other assymetrical cased issued chronograph exist made by CWC, Hamilton, Precista and Newmark. More common is the single button chronograph, again issued to British and other armed forces.



Here are a couple of single button chronographs issued to Air Ministry and Royal Navy.

 

Nice pieces, I'm a huge Lemania fan.

 

Are they all sans bezels?

 

RAF I believe yes. Google Lemania and Viggen to see what they came up with in Sweden a bit later!
I still have two kidneys. I only need one Viggen

 

Yes, these are the correct configuration, no external bezels.

 

Is asymmetrical how the Navy guys tell starboard versus the other board?

 

No, Port is red and is left in the bottle. That's all I remember from 3 years serving along side the pussers

 

(If you count 'issued' to include paramilitary - in this case ZUZ/German Customs armed intervention unit)

 

Well I had to look that one up. Not as bad as I had hoped.

 

What is this? Very cool.

 

Cheers, Lemania South African Air Force issue (1982), 5012 movement (central minute recorder) with deleted hour and 24hr subdials.

 

Read up on this. I think I'll forget about even looking for one.

 

Very nice...even these are going up in price though.

 

Hardly an overstatement.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAG...6sUMOzxGTn8ZbBFugYfVI%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

I followed the same auction. Quite surprised! I think that was about twice the price I was expecting!

 

I´ve stopped being surprised. Everything good is sky-rocketing. Most of the fun is buying, and it´s getting harder and harder by the day

 

Remember: The chase is (often) better than the catch!
At least it's getting more and more interesting digging outside the bay.........

 

Not to offend anyone but too many hipsters are buying vintage driving up the price. Makes it hard on a collector......not to mention makes it much more attractive for counterfeits.

 

Has anyone here ever bought from an Auctionata auction? There are some beautiful looking vintage chronographs going today. Seems hard to track down some of the more obscure models for authenticity.

 

No experience, but Auctionata seems to be a serious actor (and seriously expensive).