Date my watch

[cornershop]

Gents

Have owned the watch below for a few years now, was originally looking or a Lemania 5100 PVD Porsche Design, however this ticked most of the boxes from an aesthetics perspective.

Have struggled to place a date on it, google doesn't return much on the Space 2 B&R - can anyone help?

[GarryA]

Monday 26th

HTH.

[Landlord]

Oops

Edited by Landlord on Saturday 3rd December 16:29

[Landlord]

Oops

Edited by Landlord on Saturday 3rd December 16:29

[Landlord]

Date your watch? OK - but what's it's star sign and how small does the strap go?

[RemainAllHoof]

The key bit to note is that it was made back when Sinn was working with B&R. 1990s? I've seen that model before so it's not that rare and a bit of googling could pull it up. Have you tried using Google's image search?

Edit: Chronomaster.co.uk sold one; it's a rebranded Sinn 157 if that helps.

[andy tims]

Google is your friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_%26_Ross

"The brand was launched in 1992, and the first watches were designed by Belamich and Rosillo and made by a German watchmaker, Sinn."

[andy_s]

The Lemania 5100 was produced between 1974 and 1998 - (2005 for Sinn & Tutima due to ongoing military contracts).
B&R used Sinn (Guinand) cases and manufacturing between 1992 and 2003.
The B&R Space one (Sinn 144) was produced from 1994, the Space two (Sinn 157) subsequent to that.

So between 1995 and 1998 would be my best guess.

All Lemania 5100s are serial numbered, but I've never seen comparative records to accurately date them.

Very nice watch by the way.

[cornershop]

Thanks all for your input

Andy S - very useful indeed. I was thinking nineties but couldn't narrow it down any further so appreciate you chiming in

[Spice_Weasel]

Here's a quick scan from my copy of the Wristwatch Annual 1999 by Peter Braun. I think it shows your watch so it may have been on sale as late as 1999. Lovely piece though, as the Lemania 5100s are:




PM me if you would like me to send you the jpg