Champthekid
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Just back from service is my Minerva AVUS 45.
I finally received this back from a very long trip to Germany and Switzerland for a full service at Montblanc.
Some information: The watch is made of sterling silver 925 and runs a Caliber Venue 152 from circa 1945. The watch was produced 30 years ago (1994) in 40 examples.
Here are some pictures front and back as well as some of the paperwork that came with the watch.
So I am wearing this for now....
AVUS= The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS (German pronunciation: [ˈaːvʊs]), is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, , it also was used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115. (borrowed from the interweb.
Just back from service is my Minerva AVUS 45.
I finally received this back from a very long trip to Germany and Switzerland for a full service at Montblanc. Some information: The watch is made of sterling silver 925 and runs a Caliber Venue 152 from circa 1945. The watch was produced 30 years ago (19...
A truly amazing piece 🙌🏻👌🏻👏🏻
And really surprising that the sterling silver case has not acquired more patina over the past 30 years. A gem, this one 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
What a great piece!
I remember trying to find one of these years ago and they were impossible to buy. If you had one you wouldn’t sell it!
Thank you, le_chef. I was able
to find one a little over a year ago in Europe. I got lucky.
Plenty of nice things here!
A nice watch, a nice movement, a nice thing that Montblanc services the watches that do not bear their name, some nice paperwork! I visited the remains of AVUS last time I was in Berlin, there are few historical buildings and some nice monuments celebrati...
Thank you, E.
I was very glad that they agreed to service it as well. Also happy they did a good job. It had an incorrect crown and they remedied that, so I was very pleased. I had to pay up for the service though 🤪
Thank you so much, Nico!
Here’s a picture of the original tang buckle which is also sterling silver which I forgot to include in my post. ...
It took nearly a year. Crazy but worth it
in my opinion 👍. Hope yours is done sooner.
So I guess that’s about the Norman
amount of time. Luckily in this hobby we usually have more than one watch so we don’t miss it too much 😂