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A COLLECTION OF UNIQUE
INTERESTING
AND ORIGINAL PIECES
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ETERNA
CATALOG
CA. 1930
Presented here is a very rare copy, in exceptional condition for its age, of an Eterna catalog that appears to date from the mid-1930s. "Time and tide wait for no man, Let Eterna take care of your time" was Eterna's slogan at the time.
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« LA RÉPARATION EN HORLOGERIE »
BY S. PARIS
1930
Superb reference work by S. Paris, 1st Prix E. H.P. 1927 and head of the Atelier régleur at Leroy et Cie, covering chapter after chapter the rules of watch repair in the 1930s.
Foreword by André Donat, General Manager of the Besançon watchmaking industry technical center, from which the following extract is taken:
No wonder the layman considers his watch to be the most marvellous of mechanics, and Sacha Guitry wrote that "among the thousand little masterpieces of nature, there is none more mysteriously complicated or prettier than it".
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WATCH
CERTINA
MULTIFACETED
CA. 1970
In 1906, the Kurth brothers launched a brand for their own watches: "Grana", the abbreviation of "Granacus", which is the Latin name of Grenchen. The quality of this timepiece was immediately acclaimed and earned it several awards. In the 1920s, Erwin and Hans, the sons of Alfred Kurth, joined the company and brought it through the world economic crisis.
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JAEGER-LECOULTRE
CATALOG
CA. 1960
In 1937, after several years of a flourishing partnership instigated by Antoine LeCoultre and Edmond Jaeger, the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand name was officially adopted.
This collaboration gave birth to a number of well-known watchmaking classics, including the Atmos clock, the Reverso, the Memovox alarm watch and the Polaris, to name but a few.
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CATALOG
HERMAN MILLER
1964
By the middle of the 20th century, the Herman Miller name had become synonymous with "modern" furniture. In 1930, Mr. De Pree began by hiring designer Gilbert Rohde, who designed the brand's first showroom in Chicago, marking the beginning of a period of modern, problem-solving design.
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MAX BILL
1979
ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH
Max Bill, a multi-talented artist, was among other things a painter, sculptor, designer, architect and graphic artist. In the early 20s, he studied at the Zürich School of Applied Arts, where he trained as a goldsmith.
After a lecture by Le Corbusier, he enrols at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He studied with Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, painters Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and architect Hannes Meyer. At the Bauhaus school, he studied constructivism, which he decided to reappropriate by including geometry and mathematical principles. It was during this period that these two disciplines came to play an important role in his creative process. I think it's possible to develop an art based largely on mathematical thinking", he says.
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GIRARD PERREGAUX
VERMEIL
CA. 1970
Girard-Perregaux is a Swiss watch manufacturer located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, whose origins date back to 1791.
Jean-François Bautte, who first learned the trade of case assembler, then became successively guilloche maker, watchmaker and goldsmith, signed his first watches in 1791, at the age of 19.
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ANTIQUORUM
PUZZLE
"THE GRAND COMPLICATION
PATEK PHILIPPE
Antiquorum puzzle entitled "La grande complication" designed by Nicole Sabrier in 1993.
The renowned Antiquorum auction house was founded in Geneva in 1974 by Osvaldo Patrizzi, and has branches in a dozen cities, including New York, London, Moscow, Paris, Milan, Munich, Shanghai and Tokyo.
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ERNEST BOREL
"DISCO VOLANTE
CA. 1960
Ernest Borel's history can be traced back to 1856, when Jules Borel began producing watches near Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Borel and his brother-in-law, Paul Courvoisier, founded the Borel & Courvoisier Company in 1859 and began exporting watches and clocks the following year.
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ETERNA-MATIC
"GOLFER
CA. 1960
The "Golfer" was a pocket watch designed primarily for golfers, but also for all sportsmen and women who wanted to avoid excessive shock damage to their wristwatches. Here we present a rare version of the Eterna-Matic "Golfer", in sterling silver.
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WATCH
WITTNAUER
GUILLOCHED DIAL
CIRCA 1960
Wittnauer products have been widely used in scientific expeditions and exploration, and were, along with Longines movements, one of the three contenders for the first mission to the moon with Omega Speedmaster and Rolex Daytona.
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JUVENIA
J.W. BENSON
LONDON
CIRCA 1940
A rare watch stamped and sold by the prestigious firm of J.W. Benson which was one of the most respected watchmakers in London during the second half of the 19th century and was one of the very few wristwatch houses owned by English rather than Swiss.
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ELECTRIC CLOCK
UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
CIRCA 1960
An elegant and absolutely rare Universal Genève table clock.
Along with neighboring Genève-based companies Audemars Piguet, Girard-Perregaux, Patek Philippe and Rolex, Universal is internationally recognized for its style of craftsmanship and manufacturing.
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ZENITH
SQUARE DIAL LINEN
CIRCA 1960
Zenith is synonymous with precision, but also with innovation and design. Here is a very elegant and minimalist example.
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WATCH
TIRE KEY RING
LONGINES
CIRCA 1950
Longines has a dual activity as a watch manufacturer and sports timekeeper. Indeed, the company has been, and still is, a major player in sports-related activities.
The article presented here is a perfect example of this, especially in the field of motorsports.
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UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
J.W.BENSON LONDON
AUTOMATIC
CIRCA 1953
A rare watch stamped and sold by the prestigious firm J.W. Benson who was one of the most respected watchmakers in London during the second half of the 19th century.
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ETERNA-MATIC 2002
MOSAIC DIAL
CIRCA 1970
On November 7, 1856, Josef Girard, a doctor, and Urs Schild, a teacher, founded the "Dr. Girard & Schild" sketching workshop, renamed "Eterna" a few decades later.
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CLOCK
SARCAR GENÈVE
CIRCA 1950
Carlo Sarzano founded Sarcar in Genève in 1948 and is still active today.
Carlo had worked for many years for the most prestigious Swiss brands and was a representative of these great brands for Italy and Spain.
Carlo Sarzano, however, had other ambitions.
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ZENITH PILOT
AUTOMATIC
CIRCA 1960
Founded over a century ago at the dawn of the first air flights, Zenith's watchmaking heritage is unrivalled in the world of aviation. The brand created the very first "Pilot" watch, a term it patented in 1904, becoming the only watchmaker authorized to engrave "Pilot" on its dials.
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UNIQUE
ILLUMINATED SIGN
UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
CIRCA 1960
Unique on the market, very rare luminous advertising sign which certainly decorated the window of a watchmaker or retailer of the famous brand Universal Genève.
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ZENITH
CAMERER & CUSS
LONDON
1959
Absolutely rare, even unique on the market, rare Zenith watch stamped and sold by Camerer Cuss & co London.
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RARISSIME
UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
HENRIQUE PFEFFER
CARACAS
CIRCA 1940
Universal Genève watch, sold by the famous jeweler Henrique Pfeffer in Caracas, Venezuela.
In the 1950s, the Universal Geneve brand was represented in more than 40 countries, including Venezuela, where the current watch was retailed.
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UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
UNISONIC DATE
CIRCA 1970
"The first man has arrived on the Moon!
You will read this sentence tomorrow! More exactly in 1970 - if all goes well! So, you can be three years ahead of the man who will be the first to lunarize. He will be equipped with a tuning fork watch - of the same type as the Unisonic - but under a pressurized capsule. And this man will be very concerned. Not about his watch, of course. No one will notice it up there. So you have a chance he won't have: you can make your wrist the center of conversations!"
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WATCH BOOK
THE HISTORY OF
THE MODERN WRIST WATCH
PIETER DOENSEN
"WATCH is an important book covering the technical and historical development of the modern wristwatch.
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UNIVERSAL GENÈVE
RECTANGULAR
CIRCA 1970
Superb example of a model of the Universal Genève brand.
Indeed, it is not common to see this type of box at home.
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