Venus 175? Landeron? Marriage? Chronograph Suisse with "Breitling" branding

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Hey all,

I recently picked up this vintage chronograph and could use some help decoding what I’m looking at. The movement is signed “BREITLING WATCH CCR SWISS” on the chronograph bridge, and while it looks quite convincing at first glance, I'm fairly certain that this is NOT a factory Breitling.

Movement:
~Appears~ to be a Venus 175 (column wheel clearly visible at ~11 o’clock)
Y-bridge with two capped jewels, correct coupling yoke, star-shaped column wheel
Could also be a Landeron 48 as when I look at blueprints it looks almost identical

Markings:
Bridge is engraved “BREITLING WATCH CORP SWISS”
“SWISS” stamped beneath balance, no obvious caliber number visible yet (haven’t removed dial)
Movement finish looks legit: brushed levers, decent machining—not a budget clone

Case:
Two-piece snapback with METAL stamped inside the case wall
Back of the case is thin stamped gold with a hallmark that reads 18K 0.750 in a lozenge + 3 other small stamps
Number 577 is lightly engraved at 6 o’clock inner bezel

Dial:
Classic bi-compax layout with printed “Breitling” script
Roman numerals and syringe hands—suggests a “Chronographe Suisse” aesthetic
Probably a redial (or at least re-touched), but clean and tasteful

1. Is this definitely a Venus 175?, or could it be another column wheel caliber from the same family (152? 178?)? Or definitely Landeron 48
2. Did Breitling ever deliver movements signed “Breitling Watch CCR” to third parties — or is this bridge likely re-engraved?
3. Is this a classic “marriage”? Genuine movement, generic Chronographe Suisse case, and later branding?
5. Ballpark value if this is a legit Swiss chronograph but not a real Breitling?

Thanks in advance!





 
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From Chrono24: Chrono24 ad

Description

Serviced in Jan 2025, encased in a classic **“Chronographe Suisse” thin‑shell case whose outer skin is stamped 18 K 0.750 (solid gold) while the inside back is plainly marked METAL, the watch marries a genuine late‑1940s Laurendon 48 column‑wheel movement to components that never left the Breitling factory together: sometime decades later a restorer re‑engraved the chronograph bridge “BREITLING WATCH CCR,” refinished the dial to carry the Breitling name, and kept the original lightweight 18 K shell (only a few tenths of a millimetre thick and soldered to a base‑metal inner cap—typical tourist‑market construction).
The resulting piece is therefore an honest 18‑karat gold‑fronted vintage chronograph with authentic Swiss guts, but not an original‑spec Breitling; instead, it stands as a textbook “marriage”—a watch assembled or cosmetically altered after the fact to evoke a more coveted brand, offering collectors a mechanically sound Laurendon 48 engine, real precious‑metal presence, and a fascinating back‑story at a fraction of true‑Breitling prices.

Well now, the Landeron 48 family are cam switched, said to be the first such, not column-wheel. Landeron 48

To call it "textbook" and "honest" are terminological inexactitudes, although at $2k perhaps textbook something, fishing for suckers with mouldy bait perhaps.