Type 21
The Type 21 answers the French Ministry of Defence's 1956 request to upgrade the Type 20, as Airain tells it, and is drawn from a 1960s model found at a Sotheby's auction. It has a glossy black dial with Old Radium lume on a 39 mm steel case, and the hand-wound AM2 column-wheel flyback chronograph with 63 hours of reserve.
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Specifications
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