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| Re: Veri-Thin Realm (Import 257, caliber 410 variant) [message #17899 is a reply to message #12948] |
Tue, 20 December 2022 16:42  |
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Registered: May 2019
Location: Cincinnati
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I have been upstaged--if not in condition, at least in provenance. Here's another Realm (or something like it), purchased by Frank Sinatra for himself after he "made it big," then gifted & engraved in 1945 by him to Al Silvani. Sinatra had hired him by Jan 1945 to be his personal boxing trainer in his spare time.
Details: https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/lot-215-254
See also: https://blog.crownandcaliber.com/frank-sinatras-watches/
Neither mine or Frankie's have a dial exactly like Import 257, but his is closest (difference: Roman numeral at 12). The case number orientation on the back has changed. Good benchmark, though.
His: import case 111126, movement 915466
Mine: import case 110242, movement 914867
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I previously owned it, now with another collector. It was almost impossible to really capture the pink gold luster—had the best luck in open afternoon sunlight.
