Reply With QuoteI won't be the only person opening this thread half expecting to see a Sea Cheif...
Looks great though, good drills on their behalf to get it back to you! Or another way to look at it is seven years for a service??
I had a phone message from my local jeweler that they were rummaging around some old repair bins and came across a watch of mine. Seems I had given it to the previous watchmaker back in 2011, right before he left to join Frederique Constant in Los Angeles. I picked it up today, and discovered it was this old Twin Power Favre-Leuba on a vintage J.B. Champion bracelet! And it runs fine. Woo-hoo!
I won't be the only person opening this thread half expecting to see a Sea Cheif...
Looks great though, good drills on their behalf to get it back to you! Or another way to look at it is seven years for a service??
Very pretty!
I reckon the strap might be worth more than the watch.
It's not a strap, it's some sort of a leather tray or desk material.
JK, it's a clean a'la railmaster dial which I quite like.
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You mean the bracelet?Originally Posted by SimonK
I know nothing about F-L so I ask this is all innocence: that dial design appears on thousands of Indian Frankens, with whatever branding is appropriate in the middle; in this instance, is it actually correct for the watch?
+1. It looks like franken.
I think it may be a refinished dial, but a simple check of the movement should show a double mainspring movement.
Yes, of course.
It's infinitely better-finished than any of the Indians I've seen (and had!), especially the text looks good. Lume and markers look good.
It may have been refinished at some point, but I'd bet my house on it not being an Indian Franken, it's far too good.
Last edited by Papa Hotel; 17th November 2018 at 11:38.
Very nice, railmaster-esque to my eyes.
Here are a couple new photos taken this Saturday morning in San Diego:
A few points of interest. The case back says "waterproof," which would place its manufacture in the 1960s before laws were changed requiring "water resistant." The movement is this watch's original, and is the correct double-barrel FL 253, as seen here in the Ranfft Archive:
Never a doubt Tom.
That bracelet really sets it off, very cool combo.
Thanks! I have several vintage bracelets in my collection, and an uncountable number of leather straps and NATOs. This JB Champion just seemed like the most complementary style.
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