joe_lin, can you post pictures of your 1860? Does it have a hinged hunter back covering the display back movement? If it does, is the number at the 12:00 position on the case back surrounding the display back marked as 1860, or is it marked as 16/1860/1? Also, at the 6:00 position on the case back s
Yes, Peter, the watch you pictured is what my 2597 looks like. What about accuracy of the movement? Right now its +10 seconds per day. When I first got it, it was +3 hours a day, but it seems to have settled down to +10 seconds for now.
Peter, it does help, thank you. The dial is different in printed layout from the one you have pictured, with printed squares around the sub-indexes (instead of circles), a large rectangle printed over the dial and red 60 at 12:00 and atop the sub-second dial, and red 30 at 6:00 and atop the minutes
I have just aquired a 1945 case Ref 2597 watch. It is in WG, is a 2 dial chronograph (small second at 9:00 and minutes at 3:00), two square pushers around a round crown, with black laquered dial, WG dauphine hands, no date, uses the (old reference numbering) Cal 3080 movement, has a display back (no
Don't know about plans, but I do have an 1860 hunter-back from the early production in yg. Its a gorgeous watch and a spectacular movement. When I was timing it against the US nuclear clock after it came back from Chopard service, it had a spell over a 1 month period where it recorded an average var
I posed a question last year about the markings on my 1860 hunter back. I now have the answer from Chopard. My 1860 hunter-back is marked as "1860", while all the other examples I have seen or heard of are marked as "16/1860/1". The location of this marking is on the case back inside the hunter back