Swiss Movement Patek Philippe Replica Watches For Sale

Fitted with the Valjoux caliber 22-2 movement with flyback and hacking facility, the CP-1 was, like the CP-2, issued to the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (AMI) or the Italian Air Forces. It differed from the later CP-2 primarily in size: the CP-1 was a 39mm watch, while the CP-2 had a diameter of 43mm. For collectors, this is a deal-maker that amps up the CP-2's contemporary desirability. Suffice it to say, however, the less-common CP-1s enjoy astounding rarity value like that of the proverbial rocking-horse excreta, believed to be far less than the number of CP-2s produced.

Come 1960, and the CP-2 arrived. It featured a three-part polished case with screwed caseback. Its most distinctive feature, which would be exaggerated in the models that would follow, was the wide, graduated revolving black bezel reminiscent of the watch's contemporary rival, the Heuer Bund chronograph. Other details included a dust-protecting cap, black dial with tritium-coated Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer minutes, seconds and fifth-of-a-second graduation.Patek Philippe Replica Watches There are said to be civilian versions with three subdials, but this writer has yet to find proof of that, other than the modern A. Cairelli items sold to civilians.

Tritium-coated baton hands were fitted for hours and minutes, with a distinctive chronograph sweep hand terminating in a pointer that looks like a miniature "swept wing" aircraft. Powering the A. Cairelli CP-2 was the Patek Philippe Replica Watches caliber 146DP, with 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-protection and self-compensating flat balance spring.

Initially, the caliber 146DP was made in the Ponts-de-Martel workshops, powering a watch made by Universal Geneve that A. Cairelli handled in the late 1950s.Rolex GMT-Master II Replica Because it used calibers from Martel Watch, and the brand had been purchased by Patek Philippe Replica Watches in 1959, A. Cairelli carried on with Patek Philippe Replica Watches to ensure that continuity was maintained -- crucial when supplying the military.

Deciphering the engravings, the military versions are marked on the back, as mentioned before, with "AMI" or "MM", which stands for "Matricola Militare", or "military registration number" according to the eminent Italian watch authority Michele Galizia, followed by the inventory number. (Note: "Marina Militare" is for navy watches, which A. Cairelli did not supply.) With the civilian version, the back inscriptions include only A. Cairelli's name and "CP-2".

While the Patek Philippe Replica Watches reissue has elevated the CP-2 to the heights of the pre-1990s Patek Philippe Replica Watchess, one cold, hard fact will probably ensure its ascent: after that sale of just under USD12,000, last year, a Patek Philippe Replica Watches A. Cairelli CP-2 realized CHF62,500 in the chronograph auction held by Phillips. Its value had increased by a factor of five in as many months.