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| Seeking information on Fontainemelon ST96-4 Movement | Rating: 
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| Posted: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 08:10 pm |
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DM71 3T WIS 
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I purchased A Big Pilot, Inner hour Dial a few months ago and it has a Swiss Fontainemelon St96-4, 17 jewels Movement in it. All I could find on the Internet about the movement is that it's a NOS from the 60's and Azimuth is using it in some of their LE models. If anybody knows the history behind this engine I would be happy (Simon where are you? Omegaman are you there?). By the way, this watch is 47.6mm so let's say 48mm by about 11mm and has dome sapphire crystal. Lume is week but ok. It's an homage to the sooooooo beautiful Azimuth B-UHR Inner Hour dial, that will be in my collection in a short future I hope. The reason I want to know is that I bought this watch from Samson328 (Samson watch co.) from eBay and I paid under $200 for it  . I think this is a great deal because it's a gorgeous timepiece and it has a Swiss movement in it. There is one now on ebay if anybody has interest, 16h left and it's at $110 right now.Thx guys! Daniel   pictures borrowed from samson watch co on ebay. Last edited on Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 08:23 pm by DM71 |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 08:28 pm |
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Nabco 3T WIS 
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Daniel, check out the 5th post in this thread... http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=302016&highlight=st-96 If I'm reading this right it sounds like this is a movement made in Switzerland and exported to China???
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| Posted: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009 08:47 pm |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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great looking watch and a super buy imho hand6.gif that particular watch is made in China and although the movement may be one of the old Swiss companies that went to the wayside during the quartz revolution my findings are that it used a French ebauche and was mainly exported to China....Dr.Ranffts has the specs on the Swiss version below.... http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&FHF_96 a link to a little history on FHF aka Fountainmelon http://swisswatchguy.blogspot.com/ and here is a the main source of watch abbreviations that will help you find most anything.. http://www.timedesign.de/info/abbreviations.html
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| Posted: Sat Oct 3rd, 2009 12:03 pm |
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DM71 3T WIS
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Nick, Oscar, as usual, you're a great source of information!  .The watch is well built for the price even if the case is a bit rough at some places, I really enjoy it. The movement keeps very good time at -2sec. to -4sec. a day and there is nothing like the tick-a-tick-a-tick!!! of an hand cranker. It's loud and I love it yourock.gif. And with sapphire, it as everything. I particularly like the sterile dial.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 3rd, 2009 01:53 pm |
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Nabco 3T WIS
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The one that was on the bay went for $120 this morning....I meant to put a bid in before i left to play golf and totally forgot 
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| Posted: Sun Oct 4th, 2009 11:32 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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Nabco wrote: The one that was on the bay went for $120 this morning....I meant to put a bid in before i left to play golf and totally forgot just e-mail Samson through eBay and make him an offer....he will take it and has plenty of those watches to go around hand6.gif
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