Wakmann Triple Date Chronograph American This particular Electro-Chron that we

This particular Electro-Chron that we are auctioning belonged to none other than famed (or infamous) shortstop "Rowdy" Richard Bartell

the Reference 165

012’s serial number puts it in early 1968

" as it's come to be known

Wakmann Triple Date Chronograph American This particular Electro-Chron that weWithout distributors, many of the vintage watches that we know and love would never have entered the United States. In the 1930s, the U. S. government passed the Smoot Hawley Tariff Bill. Under the Bill, the tariff on Swiss watch exportsmainly the inexpensive, six jewel watches that flooded the marketwas raised to 53%. In response, Swiss exports to the United States declined by 48%. Tariffs waxed and waned throughout the next twenty years, as the