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As far as I know, Caliber 49 with hand-engraved cock were only

 


used by GO twice for two limited edition series. The first series is "1845 Last Edition Meissen" and the second series is this "Wempe 100 Anniversary Edition".

However, if you look at this "caliber 49" equipped by "Wempe 100 Anniversary" carefully, you can see clearly that it only has ONE screw-mounted gold chaton rather than FIVE screw-mounted chatons that Caliber 49 normally has. Why?

We may recall that a few years ago UNION Glashutte launched its high-end series of wristwatches called Julius Berger series and it equipped with a quality manual winding movement Caliber 30. Coincidentally, this Wempe 100 Anniversary Caliber 49 looks exactly the same as Caliber 30 except the engraved balance cock.

So from my personal point of view, only "1845 Last Edition Meissen" uses the truly original caliber 49 with hand-engraved balance cock.

Hope the above help.

Zhiming This message has been edited by zmxu on 2010-08-06 10:36:51

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Happy 45th!

 
By: DRMW : August 5th, 2010-22:21
Hello teckmeng, Looks great on the porcelain dial, please tell me more about this one. -MW

ok with my limited knowledge

 
By: teckmeng : August 5th, 2010-22:55
it was made for our 40th birthday. a total of 40 were made in 2005. 2 in platinum, one of it was presented to the president of singapore. 10 in rose gold and 28 ss. it was an old map of singapore with the help of someone from the watch industrial from sin...  

Meißen dials are ravishing . . .

 
By: Dr No : August 6th, 2010-00:28
. . . and thanks for sharing yours with us, teckmeng. I remembered seeing this particular watch before, and a search of our archives brought up these photos from 2005, courtesy Duncan Wang. [1965 Singapore in rose gold] [1965 Singapore in steel] Both equi...  

Very, very nice ...

 
By: small-luxury-world : August 6th, 2010-11:51
and even better on your wrist. If I would have a closure relationship to Singapore I would go for one. Just love that Meissen dials. Oliver

Wow, looks nice

 
By: ED209 : August 6th, 2010-00:20
Never seen this before. Does it have a transparent caseback? Thanks for sharing and happy b-day to Singapore. Regards, ED-209

Surprised not to see any engraving..

 
By: fernando : August 6th, 2010-08:25
on the swan neck regulator in this cal. 49. Thought they were all engraved as in this one: cheers fernando...  

An engraved balance cock was supplied . . .

 
By: Dr No : August 6th, 2010-09:58
. . . in only a few models, Fernando. Most were undecorated, as in this limited edition. Zhiming is the expert on this subject . . . let's see if we can get him to weigh in.

As far as I know, Caliber 49 with hand-engraved cock were only

 
By: zmxu : August 6th, 2010-10:25
used by GO twice for two limited edition series. The first series is "1845 Last Edition Meissen" and the second series is this "Wempe 100 Anniversary Edition". However, if you look at this "caliber 49" equipped by "Wempe 100 Anniversary" carefully, you ca... 

Here's a macro of the Union cal 30 . . .

 
By: Dr No : August 6th, 2010-10:43
. . . which clearly shows the single screwed chaton that Zhiming mentioned. This photo was taken by ei8htohms from his review of the Union Bergter small seconds: www.google.com Thank you, Zhiming . . . most cordially, Art...  

Yes, I see the differences....

 
By: fernando : August 6th, 2010-17:24
& appreciate the clarification but don't understand why cal. 49 has two different versions,one with 5 screwed chatons & the other with only one. Thank you Art & Zhiming for your enlightenment. cheers Fernando

Awesome piece...

 
By: Goh : August 6th, 2010-23:40
so nice to wear our country on the wrist. Thanks for sharing, Goh