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IWC: Excellent!

I haven’t seen one of these before and it is indeed a beautiful example of skeleton work- in my opinion as good as the more famous brands’ examples. Quite rare too I’m sure. Thank you for posting the pics.
3h
By: LwC
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Horological Meandering: Ok, I admit it. I’m very interested in the skeleton movements

This one is circa late 1930’s, probably a unique piece. It is Cortebert cal. 661, 9 3/4 lignes (21.7mm). Unlike the skeleton small calibers widely used by PP, AP, VC and many other manufactures that are mostly based on the FP cal. 21 (which does not have a seconds hand), this one has a sub-seconds h
18d
By: LwC
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Horological Meandering: I’ve seen several of these type pieces in auction

I think they were sold to dealers as sales tools. They vary in quality and they seem to go for a range of prices depending on quality or other factors
25d
By: LwC
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