Wakmann Triple Date Chronograph American the well-known luxury jeweler based

the well-known luxury jeweler based in New York

the Reference 165

This particular Electro-Chron that we are auctioning belonged to none other than famed (or infamous) shortstop "Rowdy" Richard Bartell

While the Speedmaster remains perhaps Omega's most notable model

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Wakmann Triple Date Chronograph American the well-known luxury jeweler basedWithout distributors, many of the vintage watches that we know and love would never have entered the United States. In the 1930s, the U. S. government passed the Smoot Hawley Tariff Bill. Under the Bill, the tariff on Swiss watch exportsmainly the inexpensive, six jewel watches that flooded the marketwas raised to 53%. In response, Swiss exports to the United States declined by 48%. Tariffs waxed and waned throughout the next twenty years, as the