A stunning vintage 1970's Bucherer Automatic chronograph featuring a gorgeous near mint original factory printed champagne dial accentuated by matte black and polished gold hands with rare center minute recording feature, in a beautiful large tonneau shape case with the famous Lemania caliber 1430 movement ticking away strong within and keeping good time. This watch has such a stylish, yet sporty look on the wrist with its sharp contrasting colours and complex 6-hand display.  The dial is absolutely beautiful with outer tachymetre track printed on an angled chapter ring, then 1/5th seconds track on the outer edge of the main dial, baton style markers, hour recording sub-dial at 6 and constant seconds at 9 with date display at 3. The champagne background has light vertical brush texture with a fancy large Bucherer swan medallion logo at 12. Signed Bucherer, Automatic, Swiss Made. The black and gold hands are also near perfect with matching luminous to the dial hour dots. The black-tipped arrow shape hand counts the minutes on the outer ring as the chronograph is running. The case has a beautiful tonneau design and is a great size at 39mm side to side excluding the crown by 44mm lug tip to tip with 20mm lug spacing fitted with a new black rally style strap. It is 20 micron gold plated with very little wear through, only showing a bit of brass in a couple of places and some of its original brushed sunburst finish still visible. Overall it still looks very sharp on the wrist as I hope you can see in these pictures. The stainless steel back is signed Swiss Made, Water Resistant + Shock Resistant, Stainless Steel Back, then inside Bucherer Swiss, Carrure Lunette Plaque Or G, 20 Microns, Acier Inoxydable with model number 9803. The movement inside is a work of art, the famous Lemania calibre 1340 automatic hour and minute recording chronograph. The same movement as was used in several Omega and Lemania branded models. This one is in superb cosmetic and mechanical condition, running strong and keeping good time with all of the chronograph functions working as they should. That said I have not had a service performed so it must be sold as is with no timekeeping guarantee. A service is recommended for reliable timekeeping.  Fully signed Bucherer Swiss, 22 Jewels with the caliber number, LWC 1340 printed just beside the balance on the mainplate. A truly stunning vintage 1970's AUTOMATIC chronograph from the famous house of Bucherer of Switzerland!!  Don't miss it!!


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