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Fact correction (incomplete-search audit): add the Antiquorum Monaco Oyster Raleigh (case 126474, dated 1941) and Christie's 5650 lot 15 (case 127947) - two documented lots the auction table omitted; correct the Antiquorum Viceroy result to the CHF 3,500 the lot page prints, not an aggregator's USD conversion; cut the unsourced Eaton's-1943 Solar Aqua inscription and the claim that a 2784 was sold as a Solar Aqua (Analog/Shift attaches no reference number, Antiquorum's only Solar Aqua is ref... |
Lint fix: link the breadcrumb family to Reference:oyster-perpetual |
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The 2784 is a small manual-wind Oyster of the 1930s and 1940s, roughly 30mm across a barrel-shaped case, running a 15- or 17-jewel movement with subsidiary seconds. What makes it worth a page is the names on it. The same reference has been catalogued at auction as Oyster Junior Sport, Oyster Lipton, Oyster Viceroy, Oyster Raleigh and Oyster Centregraph. That is one case reference, five dial names, and a corporate history the best available research still leaves unresolved. | The 2784 is a small manual-wind Oyster of the 1930s and 1940s, roughly 30mm across a barrel-shaped case, running a 15- or 17-jewel movement with subsidiary seconds. What makes it worth a page is the names on it. The same reference has been catalogued at auction as Oyster Junior Sport, Oyster Lipton, Oyster Viceroy, Oyster Raleigh and Oyster Centregraph. That is one case reference, five dial names, and a corporate history the best available research still leaves unresolved. | ||