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This 1940s Audemars Piguet model features several wonderful details : Strong pierced “ spider ” lugs Bezel with four vertical prominences or “ guards ” protecting a thick crystal A hand-wound 13 ligne “ VZ ” movement : VZSS (small seconds) or VZSSC (cente

handwind designed in 1916

shock protection and swansneck regulation too … unbeaten to this day

its understated but beautiful and the movement probably unbeaten to this day (basically template for modern indies but all hand finishing and engraving) …vzss was produced and adjusted by AP to observatory grade for Gubelin anniversary and has ap mvmt num

8 adjustments vzss and swansneck here

a better timeonly watch hard to find

Good evening, dear Users, My mother in law showed me today three watches belonging to her late husband. Two of them are Audemars Piguet, probably daring back to the Sixties (?), at least one of them bought in Zermatt, Switzerland. Although not for sale, w

but missed the auction. If you can find me one, I will give a lot to have one lol! The XXL time only one is a VZSS caliber watch from the 1940s/50s - it is the caliber that dufour based his simplicity on. They are crazy rare and have a cult following.

Rarely all in the same place, they are usually in rotation ! - Got the starwheel RG, tourbillon Automatique, 5402SA, beast and several VZSS time only.

IMHO the GF is a ground-up in-house conceived + designed + built caliber; and the finish exemplary original. The angles are more rigid/stern compared with Dufour though. Simplicity is finished exquisitely as well, and the guilloché dial is a delight to th