WAKMANN (Breitling) Long Playing ref.9657 cal. Lemania 1873 (= OMEGA 861)

A forgotten force.

A commanding outline that fell outside modern ideas of proportion.

The cushion case this chronograph wears keeps the texture of its era intact.

Rounded corners, a substantial proportion.

It speaks as an intent of form that goes beyond function.

The beat of the Lemania 1873.

What lives in the movement is the Lemania 1873.

Known as the OMEGA Cal.861, this mechanism has a history of landing on the moon.

The technical source that Breitling and Omega shared lives here, and its beat conveys the depth of that lineage quietly but certainly.

Wakmann: another name.

In 1943, from Portugal to America.

Wakmann crossed to the United States to bring the value of Swiss watches to North America, and eventually opened new ground through a joint investment with Breitling.

This watch is one of the models born at that boundary.

An age of many faces, and a brand's doubles.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, Swiss watch makers wore different faces in different markets.

Longines had Wittnauer, Jaeger-LeCoultre had LeCoultre, and Breitling had Wakmann.

This watch is a model that tells another truth born of exactly that age of many faces.

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