Lemania – maker to the British forces

Lemania is a name that should be as well-known as that of Omega or Tissot. The firm – dubbed by one watch blogger as ‘the greatest maker of watches that you may never have heard of’ – provided every single chronograph movement that those much better-known brands used until the 1970s.

Most branded Lemania watches are military-style issues. From the late 1940s until the 1970s Lemani…

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