Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Masterpiece Gold M136.880 SN 0892 LE Wooden Boxset NOS


 This is my first Masterpiece, the "Holy Grail" of Camel Trophy Adventure Watches, especially with golden bezel plus when it comes with the limited edition/production of the wooden box specially made for this watch model. Note that not all CT Masterpiece comes with this package, so I can say even the box is actually a very collectible item.
Every collector or even some vintage watch lovers would love to have at least a piece of this Masterpiece. A very hard to find nowadays that most of these watches are now in the hands of collectors and enthusiasts around the world.
The fact is, this is a high quality Swiss made watch with exquisite design and finely finished watch.
The bezel is something you don't see from other watches and is quite unique. Apart from its fine detail machined, it is actually made of 2-piece rotating bezels with the outer piece with 0-60 scales and the inner one is 0-12 scales. These features had made this watch to function as a GMT and as well as a diver (outer bezel). 
Water resistance class is 200 meters (20 atm), this is normally made for diving watches.
The watch features time, date and 1/10th chronograph functions. A great adventure spirit watch.


A little bit more about this watch:
Manufacturer: Mondaine, Swiss
Model No: 136.880
Limited Edition No: 0592
Movement: high-grade gold-plated 27-jewels Swiss made ETA 251-262 quartz.
Manufacture date: between 1994-1996.
Diameter without crown: 39 mm
Diameter with crown: 44 mm
Lug size: 18 mm
Lug-to-lug: 45 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Casing: high grade stainless steel
Bezel: stainless steel, gold-plated
Glass: Sapphire (this is the only CT watch model that have sapphire glass)
Strap: other watch strap. Almost impossible to get a genuine replacement nowadays. The original straps from this model were custom/handmade, genuine wild crocodile leather, 18mm at the lug and 16mm at the buckle.(http://ct-watches.co.uk/genuine-.html)


Some note on the movement: Other famous watches that use this same movements are Maurice Lacroix special chrono (04761-3134), Longines Chronograph Quartz HydroConquest, Tag Heuer 2000 Exclusive Chronograph Racing, Chase Durer, Porsche Design Flat 6 Chrono, Rado Sintra Chronograph Sport, Breitling Avenger M1, Bulova Sport Chronograph, and many more just ask dr google.


8 comments:

  1. I own the same watch with the same box. The strap is different from yours. Maybe my father changed the genuine one.

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    1. Mine did that too and it's not as good.The original strap is a lot beter.

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  2. Merhaba ben de var ve satıyorum

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  3. Merhaba bende aynısı İsviçre'den gelen saat hediye olarak baya dir duruyor satarsam kaç paraya gider bilgisi olan varmı

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    1. Merhaba ben ilgileniyorum.05308760331. Bana yazarsanız konusalım

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