| Re: The caliber 98 [message #1110 is a reply to message #1109] |
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JackW
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Hi Barry,
Thanks for your post and maybe it will elicit additional inputs from Paul. I will say that I agree with you that 'Precision' marked movements should be a sign that they came from the Gruen facility in Biel. Does this mean all of them? Can you think of another 'Precision' marked movement that also displays a patent number that isn't registered to Gruen. I'm hard pressed to think of one. At this point, I need to say I'll go do some more leg work and also continue to get my stuff unpacked. Bruce's book is still in a box and now that I have my shelves, I can start on that box to look at the references you have provided. As to your example with the 157, I believe there was some argument that this was also an in-house caliber until we came up with the patents showing the association with M. Favre. Things may yet turn...
Cheers my friend!
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Fixed some typos and I also found my copy of Bruce's book. Bruce is citing Paul, so really you have one source for the statement that the cal 99 was 'in-house'. Although we can agree to disagree further until something more concrete shows up.
All I know is based on hard work & writing by others. I can only aspire to augment this body of knowledge. If I am wrong it is because of my own failings. -me
"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Newton
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