Horological Meandering

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An iconic piece ,excellent build quality, great ergonomics. Grtz,Dom

Only a pity ebel downgraded the brand so much

Several posts in the last days - such cool watches! Too bad the brand missed the boat at some point, they were so instrumental to maintaining Swiss mechanical watchmaking during the dark(er) times 👍🏻 And this watch was a prime specimen 👌🏻👍🏻 ... 

Wish they were still independent, but as we know they gave up independence and once belonged to LVMH I think LVMH made a mistake… they should have kept it instead of selling it to Movado. I think under the LVMH umbrella Ebel could still be a nice brand. U... 

also owned Nouvelle Lémania at that time, hence it got possible to develope the cal. 137.

Blum was working the arrangement with Lemania starting in 1991, well before the Investcorp acquisition in ‘94. At the time, though, Ebel owned 25% of Heuer, bought from the Piaget family when they were acquired by Cartier, and had access to Lemania throug...