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    paja

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    1. I was going through some old topics and stumbled upon this one, I completely forgot about it.
      That "Association of recipients of the Albanian retreat medal miniature" was actually issued by the Association for Preserving the Traditions of the Serbian Liberation Wars Until 1918 in 1975.
      Article by S. Radan, R. Mandić and N. Bjeloš published in Serbian magazine Dinar.
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    2. I've mentioned this watch before in a topic about Yugoslav Pilots' Breitling Pluton. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find photos of it on my hard drive so I asked a friend to send me a few more again.
      Anyway it's a manual-winding flyback chronograph with Valjoux 230 movement. It belonged to a friend's grandfather who was a Yugoslav fighter pilot back in the day. I don't know when exactly did he receive the watch, probably in the late sixties or seventies.
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    3. Claudius already mentioned some of the issues that caught my attention as well,  I'd like to point out just couple of things. First of all the central part is hollow, there's no base bellow the monograms, you can see through it, that's not the case with other shown examples. It also appears to be larger and not centered. 
      In my opinion hallmark on the back side is Cyrillic VD (ВД) and the badge from Imperia has the same hallmark: http://www.auction-imperia.ru/wdate.php?t=offline&i=5227 
      Same producer?
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    4. Although Romanian decorations are not my filed I I did a little research some time ago about that particular order. Like you said it has four grades, commander (worn around the neck), officer (breast decoration with crown, gilded), knight 1st class (same as officer but not gilded) and knight 2nd class (without crown). 
      Every category has its own ribbon, I think white with purple edges is for literature.
      Apart from the order there are also medals, if I remember well in two classes.

      PS Romania is placed in the "Central & Eastern European States" category, maybe the topic would attract more attention there.

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