Yema Chronograph 36mm with Valjoux 92 from the 1960s

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The purge continues. I bought this from a collector in Austria and have worn it 5 or 6 times to the office over the past half year. While i'm not an expert in these, this looks to be a very coherent all original watch.

DIAL and HANDS: It's really attractive with glossy black dial which changes color as it catches light at different angles. The dial and hands all react to UV evenly and fade quickly consistent with tritium lume from the 60s. The lume has evenly aged to a beautiful yellow color. The dauphine hands are really lovely with aging matching the chrono sub hands.

CASE: The case is slightly worn at the 11 and 1 oclock lugs but the 5 and 7 oclock lugs look really really clean. As would be expected there is some slight wear on the crown. I've taken macro photos so you can see it all up close. The case is a lovely size at 36.2 mm x 43.8 mm with my digital calipers. Lug width is 18mm.

CRYSTAL: Please note there is a small crack in the crystal, I've elected to leave it original without changing it.

MOVEMENT: Very clean V92 without service history. Running very well within 10 seconds a day on the timegrapher and with zero chrono creep. All hands reset to 0 correctly.

CASE BACK: Stainless steel screw down case back.

I'm asking 975 USD shipped 2 days in the USA for what I think is an all original and really attractive Yema (International buyers we can discuss shipping options and cost). My price is for the watch head only. Also for reference my wrist is 7.4 inches or so.

 
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Valjoux 72 for under 1k usd is almost unheard of. Glws
 
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Valjoux 72 for under 1k usd is almost unheard of. Glws

Thanks! It's even better... A V92! 😀
 
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Happy pre weekend bump. If you have an offer in mind, happy to hear it!