FS: Chronograph Leonidas *PIC*

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FS: Chronograph Leonidas *PIC*

Chronograph Leonidas Copper/Salmon dial

Movement : Manual winding, Venus 170
Diameter ex crown : 36mm (38.5mm with crown)
Lug size: 18mm
Year : 1950
Extremely rare Pre-Heuer mid-century Leonidas up/down chronograph.
Watch winds and runs and keeps time correctly for a 70 year old watch. Most of the time, chrono second hand resets perfectly, sometimes it resets slightly before 12hour index, need another reset for the second hand to correctly align to 12hour index
Crystal is mint, back of the case polished, crown unsigned.
The watch has great patina. The dial is color is absolutely gorgeous if you love vintage. It has a copper/salmon color, with a golden pink/purple reflection to the sun.
Sold without the strap, watch only

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HISTORY OF LEONIDAS
The Leonidas Watch Factory was founded 1841 by Julien Bourquin in Saint-Imier. 1912 Leonidas is purchased by Constant Jeanneret-Droz, one of the three sons of the Excelsior Park founder Jules Frédéric Jeanneret. This should therefore have been the reason that Leonidas produced quite outstanding chronograph movements, because Jeanneret-Droz brought the necessary know-how with him. But Leonidas also manufactured instruments used in the automotive and aerospace areas. In 1964 the companies Leonidas Watch Factory and Ed. Heuer merged. For a long time the watches are sold under the name 'HEUER LEONIDAS'. After Heuer became TAG Heuer, the name Leonidas disappeared.

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