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It looks a bit similar to the 2501 model, exept the case and dial are a bit different. If it's a 18 kt gold case and you can have the watch opened (please let a qualified watchmaker do this if you are not familiar with it) and see a movement as in the thumbnails attached from the following site, expect its worth at least to be above 5000 USD. The movement is probably a 10-200 from PP. http://www.watchlover.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=998 Let us know.. Regards, Lewis.

Please allow me to join the discussion here,. Even if i have made only few posts on this forum, i've been collecting (gen) watches and repairing them for many decades. This doesn't mean that i know it all, but.. The misaligning of the center chrono second hand after a reset is usually due to the hand sitting too loose on the shaft or the central tube coming loose from the hand. It is a manufacturing tolerance and/or materials problem (The tube on "cheap" second hands are often made of soft and deformable metals and the quality of riveting both parts together is also very poor.. ) It was a very common on the old (gen) Russian chronographs. I used to fix them all the time, as they were manufactured in large quantities without much QC, a bit comparable to the reps we see today. On a high quality gen (with proper servicing) you will almost never see this happen... . You could try to glue them (if the tube and hand have separated, that is.. I never glued the tube on to the central second shaft, because you may have to remove it later and it does not really remove the cause of the problem), but from my experience, there's only one way to solve this permanently: change the whole hand for a new one, with closer tolerances. It should fit really thightly. As far as using the chonograph function: if the watch is properly made, or if the hand has been fixed properly, there is no reason at all for resetting it only close to "12". It should return to zero whatever the stop and reset position is. For a rep chronograph however, it is sound advise not to reset it too far from zero.. but it should not be like that .... Just my 2 cts.. Regards, Lewis.

Wearing comfort is not always size related.. The flexibility and shape of the band is also a very important factor... I have a small wrist but this one for example really wears extremely comfortable, like a "second skin". Best regards, Lewis.

Everything is sooo wrong here: subdial arrangement wrong, lume wrong, band wrong, guilloch

It's the watch company that also made the "BLITA" brand watches. The company still exists today: Boillat fr

The /The..e/ must be : /Theoriehorlogerie/ For one or another reason the complete adress cannot be properly copied over here. Best regards, Lewis.

And where can we find those new dealers ? (registering and logging in to RWI does not work at all -no activation mail has ever reached me, even if it says it's been sent - , so i cannot get into RWI for more info ) and the apprentice dealers section here at RWG remains empty... THX for the answer.. Lewis.

Voted ! Good luck !!

How True !!! Thank you Michael for this topic, related to time and the ability as a person to take time... to tell.. to give time... and listen.. Invaluable..but most are too busy realising that.. Best regards, Lewis.

Hi All, New here, and my first post here, but not really new to watches. Been a (very) long time watch collector and got here by sheer coincidence and curiousity. For a Gen collector, replica watches are .. well... just .. replica watches Anyhow, as watch repairing and restoring is my first an foremost field of interest, i started looking into the technical section of RWG and went on reading and reading in the other sections.... I was amazed.... So much that i really wanted to know how good those replica's really are. So after reading most topics from the "rep experts", I orderded one that got good comments on RWG (the BCE) and when it finally arrived i was not just amazed... It was ... very, very good, nearly perfect.. (not perfect of course, because if it was perfect, it would be a Gen ) I'll post some pictures of it asap and comments from someone who has been in "watchland" for almost four decades.. For now, the best to All of you.. Lewis123