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Rare sight - Mille Miglia Vintage 161889-5002 with Lemania 1874

Last week, a piece arrived in Singapore.

Seldom I see this piece of Mille Miglia Vintage in shops.  Typically available in either Black or
White dial in RG case  (limited production of 250 pieces each).

This piece is a new slate grey!

Understand this watch is inspired by a vintage car dashboard design and likely to be in period
of 1950 to 1960.

It is pretty challenging to photograph so as not to over-power the slate-sunburst dial.

The pictures were taken with flash and without flash, just daylight... there is a slight difference.


Casing is RG 41 mm diameter.  Took with flash.


Closer look...gold lining were on the subdials and the chapter ring for the tachometer and pulsometer scales.




Flash not used, just the daylight through the windows.






 






Using the daylight to highlight the white-lettering 'embossed look' printing.

The dial was still readable as the sapphire was anti-reflective coated ( 1 layer).





The pushers and the unsigned crown are of 18K gold. 




The crown diameter is at a comfortable 8mm while the pushers are 5 mm.





30 pulsation - pulsometer scale and tachometer scale of 60 to 300 km/h.
Minute and hour hands and the raised hour-indices are applied with Superluminova.


Applied hour marker for '12'.



Note the depth, the dial to the casing edge.
It gives a 3D effect with the raised hour islets, applied marker '12' , the3 raised sub-rings and the outer ring with the
hands hovering above them.




The hands






Total thickness is 12.2 mm and water resistant to 30m.



Open caseback displaying the Lemania 1874 manual winding integrated chronograph.
3Hz (21,600vph) with a power reserve of 50 hours.












Chopard has re-finished the components ...











 


The straps are of  hand-stitched crocodile leather with a 18K RG buckle.



Kong




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This message has been edited by Kong on 2009-03-04 02:36:50

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