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Sorry to be late, from my personal research ref. 25654 has been produced in more than 1000, the one I have in my collection brings on an individual number higher than 900 and in my reaserch I've spotted some piece with number slightly higher than 1000. Furthermore ref. 25654 has been produced since

...but that have inconsistent numbers. It's not the same thing. Now, if you are some AP employee or the director of the AP museum i can trust what you write, otherwise i still prefer to give credit to the director of AP museum. The world is plenty of vintage watches with cases polished more than onc

Just debatable case numbers and nothing else. Read my other reply and learn WHO is Martin Wehrli. The case showed in the picture doesn't appear has a 41xxx number (perfectly consistent with the early 50's) and show numbers perfectly aligned and engraved. Whatever are the numbers on the caseback and

I still trust on what Martin Wehrli wrote. If those numbers are "aligned" i'm Naomi Campbell :-) We know AP shifted to the new case numbering with letters when they reached #100.000 in the early 70's. How can you consider "consistent" a case number of 4 digits for the 60's? Regards

Is the book from Brunner, Pfeiffer-Belli, Martin Wehrli. The only one about AP. Here is a case with consistent numbers Regards

...sorry. But still incorrect for poorness of engraving and inconsistent with the age of the watch. Regards

The five digits engraved on the back (usually case numbers were engraved on the inside of the case back) and the quality of the engraving intself. The numbers itself appear inconsistent with the presumed age you suggested (60's) given that correspond to a period near 1907 and in the second half of t

Appears "consistent" with those poor engravings. To have any kind of more certain idea we should si the inside of the case back, toghether with the movement. Regarda

Are connected to the last link before the end link, but the end link is of course linked to that and not to the case, and comes away with the remaining part of the bracelet. Regards

interesting in watches (very long time ago, sadly) "internet" didn't even exist, we had the 14.400 baud modems and the "virtual community" was a sort of underground enclave in those were called "bbs". Even less existed any sort of "watch enthusiast community" and the only info you could gather were