Gregineugene
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I agree with mdg. Date displays are chronographic. Why not just jam one in where ever you can? 4:30. The sub dial at 6:00....
Not a real chronograph...doesn't have a date window wedged between 4 and 5 : )
...but lovely nonetheless...
mmmm it's a manual wind Venus cal 178 chronograph mvmnt prior to the introduction of the cal. 11 by Buren, Hamilton, and Breitling and the El Primero Calibre 3019 PHC both of which were introduced in 1969
1960s manual-wind chronographs often featured no date window at all. The placement of a date window between 4 and 5 o’clock became common in the late 1960s and 1970s, particularly with automatic chronographs like the Zenith El Primero (A386 reference), bu...
