The Lemania 5100 Family of Chronographs...

Yesterday I was contacted by Jorge Robles asking about 5100's, specifically asking if there was a family of chronograph movements based upon the Lemania 5100 movement such as 5012, 5195 and so on. He had seen a number of eBay auctions that mentioned these movements but had never seen anything written up describing them.

Of course there is a family of movements based upon the 5100's. It's not as extensive of a family as the Valjoux 72 family I detailed previously, nor the Valjoux 7750 family of movements, but it has some unique members that deserve mention and catagorizing.

I composed a reply to Jorge with a basic rundown of the 5100 movements I could off the top of my head, and CCed Pascal Straatsma... If there is anyone on this world who's a bigger fan of the 5100 than I am, it's Pascal. Pascal responded with a number of additional links and photo's...

This post is a listing of 5100 movements.

Ok, let's start out with the most commonally seen of the 5100's the Lemania 5100 itself...

 

Base Lemania 5100

This is the standard conventional layout of the Lemania 5100. Manufacturers can elect to include Day or omit it as they see fit, and sometimes they do to allow room for their logo or other printing on the dial.

-- Photo by Chuck Maddox


Lemania 5012

The 5012 is a 5100 without the 24-hour subdial and also runs at 21,600bph as opposed to the 5100's 28,800bph...

-- Photo by Chuck Maddox

-- Photo by Pascal.Straatsma

However, a lack of a 24-Hour subdial does not automatically equate to a 5012 movement. Pascal owns another Lemania chronograph without the 24-hour Subdial but it has a 5100 under the dial:

-- Photo by Pascal.Straatsma


Lemania 5195:

The 5195 is a quasi-"Compax" subdial arrangement no-date version of the 5100:

-- Photo ruthlessly stolen from an eBay auction for educational purposes...

The 5195 variation might have significantly different "guts" than a 5100, don't know, I've never examined one personally, neither has Pascal. To our knowledge the only watch that has ever offered this movement has been the Eberhardt & Co. Frecce Tricolori model.

Eberhardt also offered a Frecce Tricolori model utilizing the 5100 movement. Pascal owns an example and it's pictured below:

-- Photo by Pascal.Straatsma

Incidentally, Frecce Tricolori is the name of Italy's acrobatic flight team...

 

Of course and as always, if anyone has additions, corrections, refinements to my knowledge, please feel free to contact me with them.

-- Chuck