Don't get discouraged on getting a Doxa chrono, just wait for the right one to show up. As I've said in the very first post in this thread, some of the Landeron ones might not have started their existence as Doxas. The case was most likely designed to fit a Valjoux 72, so while I have little doubt as to the movement having been correct for the case, I had heavy doubts as to whether that particular specimen of the Valjoux 72 was put in that case in the Doxa factory.Ī simple Valjoux 22- powered Doxa would be a fairly safe bet, I would advise caution with any Landeron. 72 in its calendar version, only I really didn't like the movement stamp, which led me to believe that a bridge has been replaced, or there was a movement swap, which someone has later tried to conceal. I don't think that that Doxa shouldn't have had a cal. Flat pushers were used in non-waterproof cases- that said, for the specimens in chrome or gold plated cases, and the solid gold ones.ĭepends on the quality of the engraving. As Dan said earlier in the thread, some of them could well have been the Spillman cases. The specimens in screw-down back waterproof cases had the pump pushers, and these were usually available in stainless steel. After their recent collaboration with VC, which they did not disclose upon doing a comparative review (very pro-VC one) of three watches (one of them a VC), I simply don't think that what they're doing is journalism, since it violates the ethics of the job on all counts- guess they can be called an advertorial site, writing pieces favourable to their partners in the watch industry, or indeed themselves and their shop. If it wasn't that watch, I'm sure it wasn't worth the money all the more. "Hot topic." I hope only in the context of calling them out, because the watch itself surely wasn't worth the hype, let alone the money. Aaaarghh, that's the beef I've got with them. I have a hard time taking any Hodinkee Shop offer seriously, but if you mean the gold triple date chrono with the Valjoux 72, I actually did call them out for that one, and the rather doubtful quality of the movement stamp. Though I've seen later 1960s examples as well. Most of them were made all throughout the 1940s, and in the early 1950s. Are there Doxa chronographs with round "pump" pushers? There surely are, and on the contrary to what Hodinkee - one of the least competent sites I know of - tries to put into people's heads, they aren't that rare.
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