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Better late than never for presenting it here: The limited "Diver" chrono from Wakmann.
I got it from an American collector living curently in Asia: It was a show-room mint condition watch he never used personnally.
The Wakmann brand is born in New-York as a watch-sells business and started making them own watches after WW2.
They had models signed Breitling-Wakmann and made a good reputation in watch-making at the time.
After a disappearing from the market, certainly due to the quartz rise(who knows...?) the Wakmann brand reborned officialy through Torstein Nagengast, a German watch collector.
They are now fully produced in Germany and this model is a 100 pieces limited edition with 50 pieces Roman dial and 50 pieces luminous markers dial.
The watch shows no special markings except Wakmann B.Richter on the dial.
Benno Richter is a known Breitling specialist who written a book on Breitling's history and it's watches and been participating actively to the conception of this limited serial watch.
Well, the watch is superbe and I enjoy it a lot personally: I really love the Roman dial and it's texture as the whole choice who been made in the features around, having a vintage pilot style even it's called a "diver".
The model with luminus markers would more be seen as a kind of diver but the Roman "printed guilloché" dial speaks out by itself as a classical vintage pilot, specialy with the pushers's style and bezel cuts.
Still, the watch is 100m tight, with a screw back-case and a screw-down triple seal crown.
The watch came on a Milanaise bracelet made-in-Germany also of very fine and tight quality who really compliment the watch.
I opened mine and observed a number "7" written inside the case-back with a kind of marker-pen.
Inside, the movement is a simple grade 7750 ETA but the rotor is decorated with circular Côtes-de-Genève.
I didn't time the watch but it didn't seem to be abnormaly reflecting time to me...
The cristal is sapphire but without any anti-reflect coating: I guess that it preserve the vintage feeling and it don't bother me at all.
Only the hour and minute hands has a green lume: The quality is very good.
For the bezel ratchet: You have the typical sturdy German click who's doing the job really well.
Last details as you can observe: Wakmann supressed the day and the dial only shows the date! I think that it's a cool detail who gives more place to the Roman dial and don't cut the dial in two.
For those who wonder: The watch is 42mm wide on the case without crown, 43mm on the bezel's diameter and 15mm thick.
Thanks for reading! This wasn't ment as a review but just as a presentation so I hope that at list it answered most of your wonderings!
Time for pictures!
