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ΤΟ 1ο αυτόματο ρολόι.

Perrelet SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Founded in 1777 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, the inventor of the automatic watch. After his death in 1826 his famous grandson Louis-Frédéric Perrelet followed his footsteps and took the prestige Perrelet name further. The grandson of Mr. Perrelet, Louis-Frédérick Perrelet died in 1852 .The company claims that it has been constantly active since and returned to visibility in 1990.

Several historical documents reference Abraham-Louis Perrelet’s work in developing some of the first watches to “wind themselves”. For this reason, the talented watchmaker is considered the inventor of the self winding movement. His grandson, Louis-Frédéric Perrelet, born in 1781, was appointed watchmaker to the King of France. In 1815 he exhibited his astronomical clock three years after designing it and exhibited it at the Universal Exhibition. Over a decade later, the patent for his "fly-back chronograph counter" was applied for, winning him four gold medals.

From the 1770s onwards, Abraham-Louis Perrelet applies himself to perfecting a system which, from one single initial impulse, would continue to function indefinitely. It was in 1777 that he develops his completely revolutionary invention – the self-winding or automatic movement. To this very day nobody has managed to improve on this to give life to mechanical calibers and his invention continues to make its mark on watchmaking history.

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Ναι το πιο πιθανό.


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Ορίστε ένα enicar φίλου. Πρόσφατη φωτογραφία. Ο ίδιος αγόρασε και ένα πολύ ωραίο Leonidas πριν 6-7 μέρες. Σουπερ και τα δύο.


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Αν τα καλά χρονια αγόραζες Ρολεξ,θα είχες τρομερή συλλογή

Γιώργο μου,δεν με ενδιέφερε ποτέ να έχω καλή,συλλογή, με την έννοια που το εννοείς.
Μετά από τόσες αλλαγές, λάθη, και εμπειρίες, έχω καταλήξει,όσο αφορά εμένα πάντα,ότι θέλω να έχω, για δικά μου ασυνήθιστα ρολόγια.
Έχω βαρεθεί τα Rolex,Omega,Tag.
Ευχαριστιεμαι, πολύ το perellet  π.χ.


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Αν τα καλά χρονια αγόραζες Ρολεξ,θα είχες τρομερή συλλογή

Έριξα μια ματιά,ακριβά χωρίς λόγο

Άλλο είπα,ρολόι της εταιρείας αγόρασες?

Ρολοι της αγόρασες?

Σου αρέσει ο indiana jones?Ήθελες και συ να ψάχνεις αρχαία?

ENICAR WATCHES

The Racine Family
The Racine family was well-known in watchmaking as early as the 1700's. They were French-speaking and lived in the Swiss Jura as well as Lamboing in Bern Canton and Grenchen in Solothurn Canton. There were many watchmaking businesses with a Racine family member involved, though only a few actually used the family name. One, Jules Racine Sr., had registered the family name as a watch brand.

Therefore, when Ariste Racine and his wife Emma Blatt began their Manufacture d'Horlogerie Ariste Racine in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1913, they were unable to sell watches under their own name. Emma suggested reversing the family name, and the Enicar brand was registered on January 6, 1914. Ariste Racine was a small operation at first, operating out of the family sunroom before adding a small radium laboratory and moving to his mother's house in Longeau (now Lengnau) in the Bern Canton.

Ariste Racine and company had a major hit with a teardrop-shaped pocket watch which had a second aperture for a compass or photo. These were exported around the world and were especially popular in Germany, Russia and China. Soon, Ariste's brother Oskar Racine joined the company and they opened a much larger factory in Longeau. They began producing their own "AR" movement family, though many products continued with other movements, notably those from Adolph Schild.

THE GENESIS OF SHERPA

As was typical in the late 1950's, Enicar began supplying watches to mountain climbers and other adventurers as a marketing exercise. Enicar Seapearl watches accompanied the Swiss expedition to the top of Lhotse and Everest in the Himalayas in 1956, to much fanfare. Enicar seized on this publicity by branding their “explorer” watches “Sherpa” later that year. Over 100 different Enicar Sherpa watches were introduced in the following decade, becoming their most famous brand. Enicar also proved the ruggedness of their watches by attaching a Sherpa Ocean Pearl to the keel of the sailing ship Mayflower II as it crossed the Atlantic in 1957. This led to the creation of a family of Sherpa Dive watches.

Many Sherpa watches were rebranded with the Star name in the 1960's as Enicar modernized their designs. They were involved in the electrification of wrist watches as well, introducing an electro-mechanical watch in 1961 and introducing one of the first Swiss quartz watches in 1970. Enicar had been part of the CEH Beta 21 project and used that movement. But the quartz crisis was not kind to Enicar, which was not absorbed into the Swiss conglomerates that became Swatch Group.

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Ευχαριστούμε Αλέξανδρε για τις πληροφορίες και για τον κόπο σου

Αυτά δεν είναι τα pre-heuer ;


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Τα πιο πολλά ναι,είναι πρέπει Heuer

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Τέτοιο pedigree....ελάχιστες εταιρίες

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Part 2


Leonidas
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The Leonidas Watch Factory traces its origins to 1841 in Saint-Imier, was merged with Heuer in 1964, and the brand was retired after the company became TAG Heuer in 1985. It was a large-scale producer of chronographs and stop watches and is associated with the Bourquin and Jeanneret families and Beau-Site area of the town. The brand was typically written as "Léonidas" through the 1930s, though the acute e was rarely used after this.


Contents
1   Julien Bourquin
2   Ferdinand Bourquin
3   Léonidas Watch Factory
4   Constant Jeanneret-Droz' Montre Junior
5   Leonidas and Berna
6   Heuer-Leonidas
7   Leonidas Watch Today
8   External Links
Julien Bourquin
The Leonidas company traces its roots to the year 1841, when Julien Bourquin began selling watches in Saint-Imier. Bourquin is listed in Indicateur Davoine as early as 1842 in the town, along with Calame (no longer listed after 1844) and Fs-H. Bourquin (noted as "Maison à Londres" and appears to relocate to La Chaux-de-Fonds soon after). Bourquin Frères appears in 1847 and 1848, and Julien continued to be listed alone beyond this date. In 1867, Bourquin's production is noted as "fabricant ... et aroenterie et bijouterie" (maker of watches, silverware, and jewelry) and his address is shown specifically at Grand Rue 6. Julien Bourquin appears to have died in the 1880s.

Ferdinand Bourquin
Ferdinand Bourquin is listed as successor to Julien Bourquin in 1886. He had worked in Russia, selling watches to the aristocracy there and establishing the Bourquin name alongside those of Paul Buhré, H. Moser & Cie., and Breguet. Once he took over, Julien expanded the family business with workshops in Poland and Russia and the establishment of new brands, La Populaire and Léonidas.

The first advertisement for Ferdinand Bourquin appears in 1895 and declares this is "Ancienne Maison Julien Bourquin Fondée en 1841", leaving little doubt to the continuity. Bourquin lists La Populaire as his brand at this time, and specifies that he specializes in anchor watches of beauty and quality in 13, 16, and 19 ligne sizes, along with chronographs and stop watches.

In 1901, Ferdinand Bourquin relocated to Rue des Roses 2, a growing factory also used by Ernest Degoumois at that time and the future home of the Fluckiger dial company. Bourquin was constructing his own workshop in the Beau-Site area across town but he died of a heart attack on March 5, 1905, before the new factory opened.

Léonidas Watch Factory
The Léonidas name first appears in 1902 in an advertisement for Ferdinand Bourquin's Fabrique d'Horlogerie Beau-Site. It is clear that this brand is used primarily on precision 18 ligne anchor watches, a higher-end product for the company that also produced stopwatches and cheaper patented chronographs as well as a variety of La Populaire watches.

In 1903, Leonidas is advertised being solely represented by J.-H. Jeanneret, and the company is shown to produce chronographs, stop watches, and extra-thin watches. It appears that Jeanneret had purchased a share of the company at this time, though this is not well documented. Leonidas no longer advertises in La Fédération Horlogère after 1904 but the company undoubtedly continued in operation. The company secured design patents in 1907 and 1908 under the name, "Leonidas Watch Factory, Vve Ferdinand Bourquin" suggesting that Bourquin's widow was still in control of the company at that time. A 1909 patent shows only "Leonidas Watch Factory", and the other patents were reassigned that year as well, suggesting a change of ownership.

The mounting social trouble in Russia placed sales pressure on companies like Leonidas that focused on the market. But a more serious crisis grew in 1910 as their bank, Banque Populaire de Bienne, faced a shortfall and was no longer able to extend credit. Leonidas boss Jules Javet attempted to continue production but was soon arrested on charges of embezzlement and fraud. Although he was ultimately exonerated, the company was liquidated in 1911 at a substantial loss.

Constant Jeanneret-Droz' Montre Junior
Watchmaker Constant Jeanneret-Droz, one of the three sons of the Excelsior Park founder Jules-Frédéric Jeanneret, established Manufacture Junior by 1902. The company sold anti-magnetic watches, likely based on Fritz Moeri's patent along with electrically illuminated and powered clocks. Manufacture Junior was legally known as "Jeanneret-Droz", as seen in design patents from 1903 and 1904. Junior was located at Rue du Pont 16, across the railroad tracks from the large Usine du Parc and Usine Fritz Moeri factories of his older brothers. It is possible that the name “Junior” referred to Constant himself, the youngest of the Jeanneret brothers.

Junior licensed a patent for winding and time setting mechanism from Charles Perrin-Debrot of Saint-Imier that year, suggesting that they were manufacturing their own watches and not just re-selling Moeri's watches. In addition to Manufacture Junior, Constant Jeanneret-Droz also became a wholesaler for chronograph movements produced by LeCoultre in Le Sentier, a curious activity for a Saint-Imier company.

Junior's product line expanded by 1907 to include higher-quality 17 and 19 ligne watches and American-style 16 ligne movements in addition to the 19 ligne anti-magnetic movement. The company also boasted of producing steel, silver, and gold cases with excellent quality.

In 1911, Constant Jeanneret-Droz purchased the assets of the Leonidas Watch Factory. He had intended to buy the factory as part of a consortium but outbid his own group when it became clear that no other buyers would drive up the price. He almost immediately turned management of the company over to his son Charles Jeanneret, who would run the factory for decades.

Jeanneret merged Leonidas with the Junior brand, and this appears to have displaced La Populaire as the lower-priced brand. They produced precision anchor watches in both normal and ultra-thin models and specialized in chronographs and stop watches and also produced 1 and 8 day automobile dashboard watches, which was a trend at the time. We see the first advertisements for a Leonidas wristwatch in 1916. The Junior brand is last seen in advertisements in 1919, though the name would be taken up by Helvetia in the 1930s.

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