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Senior Sunday (pre-1980)

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Morning,

A lump of '70s steel with this Jules Jürgensen which is powered by the 13j ESA 9154 Dynotron and wears every bit as chunky as it looks.

J.J. has a fascinating but ever-descending history. However, back in the day, this was a high quality brand, some rare examples of which have fetched eye-watering prices - like six-figure eye-watering.

For the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever, today's effort is not one of those.

Regards.

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Today's offering, the constantly baffling Orefa. With its handwinding Lorsa movement and caseback stamped with the Miserez logo and "Besancon" I'm pretty sure this example is French. But then I saw an "Orfa" with a very similar wordmark and an HPP-signed movement from Henzi and Pfaff. "Mechanical Watches - An Annotated Bibliography of publications since 1800" by Richard Watkins (available via Google Books) lists Ore, Orfa and Orefa as H&P signatures. I reckon something was going on between H&P and André Fierobe, Fabrique de Montres Oréfa in Charquemont, and possibly Montres Dreffa in Switzerland, all of whom had the trademark in the 1950s. But I have no idea what.

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A nice 0903-8089 (4004) from 1977.. :) ...Bob.

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4004 is a superb movement and some really good quality cases. Very nice. Another forgotten seiko 70s gem.

I have been wearing this vintage Zenith Defy this evening :thumbsup:

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Nice martin, how is the Zenith collection coming on? Hope the ones from me are still running ok for you. I do miss that gold 87 mistral

...knew i would lol.
 
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