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Professional Team Limited Edition M136.871-879 SN 4898 fullset

 LIMITED EDITION FOR CAMEL TROPHY OFFICIAL TEAMS

20ATM TESTED

 This watch was purchased as New Old Stock. Now become my favorite daily watch.

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.

Collectors Around The World : Spain

Another collector from Spain, José Adolfo López who enjoying CT stuffs as much as I do.

Recap the Camel Trophy events from 1980 - 2000

I found the best source for recapturing the Camel Trophy Adventure events is from Camel Trophy Owners Club UK site (http://www.cameltrophy.org.uk/history.htm)

If you were born in the 70s, and growing up in the 80s and 90s, you might find yourselves familiar with this brand.

Camel Trophy - Sabah, Malaysia 1993

Talking about Malaysia participation,

Year : 1986
Place : Australia
Participants : Zaini Shaarani & Tang Fook Leong

Year : 1993
Place : Sabah, Malaysia
Participants : Sabiamad Abdul Ahad & Jensen Loh

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I tried to locate the Malaysian participants, below is what I found so far;

(Dr) Zaini Shaarani
- he is now with 4x4 Academy Malaysia
link page (http://www.4x4malaysia.com.my/adventures/academy_people.htm)


Sabiamad Abdul Ahad
- I am not sure if the same Sabiamad "Superman" as mentioned in this news;
http://ww1.utusan.com.my/utusan/Rencana_Sukan/20120505/rs_03/Sabiamad-digelar-Superman-Malaysia
http://www.thestar.com.my/Sport/Other-Sport/2013/09/06/Sabiamad-has-big-plans-in-store-for-shooting/


The rest still untraceable