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EBEL is credited with reviving the El Primero...
since they made the first request for it during the quartz crisis, but they also designed their own movement, had the parts cut by Lemania. EBEL agreed to let Breguet use it as a manual wind, theirs was self-winding. In 2004 or 2005, when it was clear that EBEL was becoming a woman's brand, they sold the patent rights to UN.
-Dean
Not one I know. Quite like it. (Lemania 137, apparently. Used by Breguet and Ulysse Nardin.)
Credit Oliverte TZ-UK ...
Excellent! I've been highly familiar with it since the mid 80s when....
Sonny Crockett wore it in Miami Vice 😁👍
I think this one is a different iteration than the Ebel Sport Classic Chronograph
which sported an El Primero movement and a somewhat different dial. oh...and one of the coolest bracelets ever ...
My understanding was that Ebel chronographs of the '80s and '90s . . .
. . . employed El Primero movements. Apparently, as Melvyn was fond of saying, "Wrong again!" 😅
EBEL is credited with reviving the El Primero...
since they made the first request for it during the quartz crisis, but they also designed their own movement, had the parts cut by Lemania. EBEL agreed to let Breguet use it as a manual wind, theirs was self-winding. In 2004 or 2005, when it was clear tha...
Wasn't Rolex the first one to ask for El Primero ebauches?
In the mid eighties. OK, I take it back. I saw the link posted by Bruno.M1
Here is something I wrote a couple of years ago about Ebel ( and this watch )
https://www.watchprozine.com/page-wf.forumpost/desc-horological-meandering/pdesc-ebel---when-they-were-great-between-1980-and-the-end-of-the-1990-s/fi-17/ti-1556176/pi-15284456/ 3 to me special references within the ebel history And the last one is the on...
I remember a lot of nice Ebels from back in the day.
I recall liking their world timer in particular.
