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  1. Starting this day up with some lightning bolt / milgauss action
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  3. Sent from my droptop using telepathy
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  5. Nice Milgauss Ogladio!!
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  7. Preface This week's style of review is going to be different. First and foremost, I would like to start with serving you with Eyecandy Next, I will write a little bit of history about the brand and the (genuine) watch in particular and then we will go into all the dirty bits and bolts on another day . This week review will be on ebel 1911 BTR Chronograph. Eyecandy This review is dedicated to my friend By-Tor who has long been a fan of Ebel watches, 1911 BTR Chrono in particular. A special thanks to SD4K who has helped me a lot with providing me reading materials. About the Brand Quoted from Watchtime, April 2007: Founded in 1911, and family-owned for many years, Ebel made its name as a manufacturer of elegant wristwatches. When Pierre-Alain Blum, the grandson of the firm’s founder, launched the Sport Classic line in 1977, a new era began. The watches in the line featured unconventional, hexagonal, rounded, satin-finished cases and polished bezels held in place by five screws. In ensuing years, the Sport Classic acquired the status of a design icon. It became so important for Ebel that it was later renamed “1911” in tribute to the year of the brand’s founding. Ebel introduced the first chronographs with this now-familiar case in 1982, initially powered by Zenith’s El Primero caliber. In 1994, one year prior to the introduction of the exclusive Caliber 137 in the Modulor 1911 watch, Blum was forced to sell the business to the Investcorp holding company. Ebel came under the aegis of the luxury group LVMH (Mo
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