I got a line on one of these, a Premiere Maximus, this morning, and it has winding indicator. Roy Ehrhardt's book seems to indicate that they all do. Can someone corroborate that?
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As I understand it they all do. There was one just closed on eBay the other day, no bids at $14,000. Funny thing is that the seller was willing to ship to Canada with USPS First Class Mail International with no tracking. The one on eBay was #17000132 from the first run of 201.

You are jumping in with both feet, do you know the serial # of the one you are looking at?

Movement

This case is 14K but some of them are in 18K cases.

From what I have read the first ones sold came in cases that have the same serial #'s as the watch but there are also examples in the proper cases but the case numbers don't match the one on the movement.

Cuvette:

This case has me wondering though, I will post a pic of the case back then close-ups of the numbers.

Close-up of cuvette:

Case back. Actually Ed, maybe this should go in Pitfalls as this may be relisted on eBay.

Lorne -- The piece I am speaking of is in the original case, of course, and I know the provenance.

The first run was 17000000 to 17000200 (201) and the second (I am doing this from memory so I hope I get it right) was 17057001 to 17058000 (1000).

The guys who are keeping a database of these have not heard of a second run watch numbered above 17057300 so there is speculation thet only 300 were made in the second run.

All this info is here on IHC, just do a Premier Maximus search.