Horological Meandering

From the 70's. A superb military Chronograph, a dream! Best, Nicolas ...  

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In English it's "Italian Army".

... which would be the typical path of watches issued to the military worldwide. I'd say a big part of today's collector's market consists of watches that left the military via less than official procedures. Today, with much stricter controls, we are limi... 

E.I. means Esercito Italiano, as I wrote before. No "Exemplary Inventory" - no one would use anything like that in the Italian Army of course. Believe me, as an Italian I know it very well.

... and it was also in no way directed at or against Italy. But it is no secret that in earlier times, when due to a lack of digital competence it was very difficult to keep an eye on all the inventory, it was not uncommon for interesting hardware - and w... 

As I said I'm Italian and therefore not a native English speaker. Again, sorry about all the fuss.

Reminds me of a non matching tritium panerai but with inverted colors!

I love this particular chronograph layout.

from the family of EPSA case #817 military-issued Lemania Chronographe ITALY had the BRIETLING 817 and SWEDEN had the ... Lemania VIGGEN [THUNDERBOLT] ref.# 817 nickname derived from the Saab 37 Viggen Figther Jet of the Swedish Air Force . Was manufactur...  

Here is the 817 Sweden. ...  

very nice indeed !!!!