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Hi mobeme,

I know the Lemania 5100 has quite a cult following built up around it (especially since it's been discontinued), but it is really a very economically minded piece of engineering with a large array of plastic components and not at all something Breguet would ever use as a base for one of their watches. 

The movement is instead based on the Lemania 1372 found in the Breguet Type XX and Type XXI.   There's been a huge amount of virtual ink spilled by yours truly on the subject of this movement (the Cal. 582 anyway, the one in the Marine Chrono is slightly different) so I won't bother rehashing it here (try the search engine if interested), but suffice to say that it is somewhat of a workhorse by luxury watch brand standards, but several large steps up from the Lemani 5100.

_john

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Marine Chrono

 
By: mobeme : October 9th, 2007-13:05
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but the Marine Chrono is quite unique by virtue of its central minute chrono counter. It's nice from a functional POV (though I'm not convinced I like it over the 5237 say) and I was wondering if it uses the Le... 

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By: ei8htohms : October 9th, 2007-18:03
Hi mobeme, I know the Lemania 5100 has quite a cult following built up around it (especially since it's been discontinued), but it is really a very economically minded piece of engineering with a large array of plastic components and not at all something ...