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·Hello again; some of you may have seen my introduction to the forum here where I posted pictures of my newly acquired EP.
Taking Lou's advice, I have sent the watch away for a service and the watchmaker has confirmed that the movement is mechanically pristine with no wear and may, in fact, be NOS after all. The conundrum continues though as the movement is a 17 jewel EP which I believe was only found in US market references.
What is especially odd is that my reference 20.0210.415 also has a US market counterpart 20.0220.416 so you'd have thought that the 17 jewel movement EPs would've ended up in the US reference and the 31 jewel movements would've ended up in the non-US references. And yet this thread shows that the US reference also comes with a 31 jewel movement.
My question is whether there are documented instances of Zenith shipping watches destined for non-US markets with the 17 jewel movement instead of the 31 jewel movement? If not, it would seem that I either have the wrong case back on my watch or I have a substituted movement - even though it's a period correct 3019...
Taking Lou's advice, I have sent the watch away for a service and the watchmaker has confirmed that the movement is mechanically pristine with no wear and may, in fact, be NOS after all. The conundrum continues though as the movement is a 17 jewel EP which I believe was only found in US market references.
What is especially odd is that my reference 20.0210.415 also has a US market counterpart 20.0220.416 so you'd have thought that the 17 jewel movement EPs would've ended up in the US reference and the 31 jewel movements would've ended up in the non-US references. And yet this thread shows that the US reference also comes with a 31 jewel movement.
My question is whether there are documented instances of Zenith shipping watches destined for non-US markets with the 17 jewel movement instead of the 31 jewel movement? If not, it would seem that I either have the wrong case back on my watch or I have a substituted movement - even though it's a period correct 3019...