{"product_id":"lemania-field-watch-ref-203-4-brushed-silver-dial","title":"Lemania Field Watch Ref. 203-4 - 'Brushed' Silver Dial","description":"\u003cp\u003eLemania can trace its roots back to the Vallée de Joux, where it was founded in 1884 by Alfred Lugrin, a former Jaeger-LeCoultre craftsman with a talent for complicated movements. Operating first under his own name, Lugrin built a modest but formidable reputation through his chronograph work before his son-in-law Marius Meylan took the reins around 1930 and renamed the company Lemania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurvival through the Great Depression came by joining forces with Omega and Tissot in 1932, and it was within the newly-formed alliance that Lemania's true legacy was forged: Every Omega chronograph movement for the next four decades, including the the iconic Calibre .321, would be supplied or closely based off Lemania calibres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Quartz Crisis of the 1970s nearly unravelled it all, and by 1981 Lemania had separated from the group and reborn itself as Nouvelle Lemania. A decade later, Breguet brought it into the fold, and when the Swatch Group absorbed Breguet in 1999, the Lemania name was quietly retired — though its workshops now forming movements for Manufacture Breguet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece that we have here is a field watch from circa the 1950s. The case measures a nice 33mm in diameter and has 'fixed'-bar lugs, a screw-down caseback, and Lemania's Calibre 3050 manual-winding movement. The silver dial inside has developed a nice, uniform patina across the 'brushed' surface, with patinated 'Arabic' indices, a clean 'concentric' subsidiary register on the lower half, and a matching blued-steel 'kite' handset to tie it all together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll things considered, this is a lovely, versatile vintage watch that can be worn by virtually anyone, and just happens to come from a great brand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oliver \u0026 Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52012740575549,"sku":"OC3255","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0765\/6138\/3741\/files\/LEMANIA_CALATRAVA_STRAP_WEB_1_R.jpg?v=1784839833","url":"https:\/\/oliverandclarke.com\/products\/lemania-field-watch-ref-203-4-brushed-silver-dial","provider":"Oliver \u0026 Clarke Vintage Watches","version":"1.0","type":"link"}