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Aedaxoo
路I was recently looking for a vintage chronograph and as luck would have it.
This turned up right in front of my nose during a watch fair.
Of course I recognised the model as these tend to stick out. But when I looked closer I was immediately enamoured. The multicenterchrono is already really cool but having it signed West end watch is something really unique. There are a few notable differences between normal multicenter chronos and these, Besides the dial of course. The first being the caseback which is also signed west end watch co and for some strange reason also has an arrow mark ( perhaps to show where a the tool should be attached or something MOD related). Another very interesting detail is that these seemed to have been made in 2 batches, the first being around the 5099xx serial range with telemeter scale of which I have found 2 so far out there and a second batch of which 2 were sold by the same Italian seller sadly he only remembers one of the two serial numbers and then there is mine. Funnily enough they have serial numbers 810372 and 810374 respectively. They also differ from the first batch because they all have fixed spring bars and "plain" dials. As some of you know West end watch co was at this time one of the biggest retailers in British India so were these watches made for servicemen during the second world war? I guess we'll never know but I would certainly like some fixed spring bars when fighting the Japanese in the pacific regardless of the fact it was actually issued. And now to finish my post I would like to thank you for reading it and I am interested if there are any others out there that I missed.
This turned up right in front of my nose during a watch fair.
Of course I recognised the model as these tend to stick out. But when I looked closer I was immediately enamoured. The multicenterchrono is already really cool but having it signed West end watch is something really unique. There are a few notable differences between normal multicenter chronos and these, Besides the dial of course. The first being the caseback which is also signed west end watch co and for some strange reason also has an arrow mark ( perhaps to show where a the tool should be attached or something MOD related). Another very interesting detail is that these seemed to have been made in 2 batches, the first being around the 5099xx serial range with telemeter scale of which I have found 2 so far out there and a second batch of which 2 were sold by the same Italian seller sadly he only remembers one of the two serial numbers and then there is mine. Funnily enough they have serial numbers 810372 and 810374 respectively. They also differ from the first batch because they all have fixed spring bars and "plain" dials. As some of you know West end watch co was at this time one of the biggest retailers in British India so were these watches made for servicemen during the second world war? I guess we'll never know but I would certainly like some fixed spring bars when fighting the Japanese in the pacific regardless of the fact it was actually issued. And now to finish my post I would like to thank you for reading it and I am interested if there are any others out there that I missed.
