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Lot Essay
The football club Twente (F.C Twente) is a Dutch professional football club of the city of Enschede evolving in the Eerste Divisie. Founded in 1965, the club encountered success in their 2009-2010 season, winning for the first time the Eredivisie title in a season when the club managed to have a solid record of wins and only two losses.
Primordial to their success, Blaise Nkufo played as striker for the F.C Twente team from 2003 to 2010. Highly productive, Nkufo made 223 appearances for the club with a total of 114 goals scored making him the highest ever goal scorer of the Dutch club. Also playing at the national level, Nkufo made 34 appearances for the Swiss national football team, scoring on multiple occasions. He was also part of the 2010 world cup squad in South Africa.
Engraved “Blaise Nkufo, FC Twente Landskampioen 2009-2010” to its caseback, Landskampioen translating to “Dutch Champion”, it is understood the wristwatch was presented to the Swiss striker upon victory of the championship.
The GMT Master II reference 116710LN was introduced at the 2007 Baselworld, the “LN” for “Lunette Noir”, French for black bezel. The Oyster case was upgraded and differed from its predecessor by the “super case” including larger lugs with vertical satination instead of diagonal, coarser satination of the lugs than of those of the earlier model, triplock crown instead of twinlock, AR (anti-reflective) coating of the cyclops lens, green GMT or 24 hour hand, green "GMT MASTER II" writing on the dial, "Maxi Dial", e.g. larger hands and larger indexes, ceramic bezel insert with platinum-filled numbers as opposed to the anodized aluminum bezel insert of the reference 16710, the bracelet with solid, polished centre links, heavier and more complicated construction of the clasp, including a hidden “Easy Link”.
Primordial to their success, Blaise Nkufo played as striker for the F.C Twente team from 2003 to 2010. Highly productive, Nkufo made 223 appearances for the club with a total of 114 goals scored making him the highest ever goal scorer of the Dutch club. Also playing at the national level, Nkufo made 34 appearances for the Swiss national football team, scoring on multiple occasions. He was also part of the 2010 world cup squad in South Africa.
Engraved “Blaise Nkufo, FC Twente Landskampioen 2009-2010” to its caseback, Landskampioen translating to “Dutch Champion”, it is understood the wristwatch was presented to the Swiss striker upon victory of the championship.
The GMT Master II reference 116710LN was introduced at the 2007 Baselworld, the “LN” for “Lunette Noir”, French for black bezel. The Oyster case was upgraded and differed from its predecessor by the “super case” including larger lugs with vertical satination instead of diagonal, coarser satination of the lugs than of those of the earlier model, triplock crown instead of twinlock, AR (anti-reflective) coating of the cyclops lens, green GMT or 24 hour hand, green "GMT MASTER II" writing on the dial, "Maxi Dial", e.g. larger hands and larger indexes, ceramic bezel insert with platinum-filled numbers as opposed to the anodized aluminum bezel insert of the reference 16710, the bracelet with solid, polished centre links, heavier and more complicated construction of the clasp, including a hidden “Easy Link”.