VERY RARE US ARMY TRUE 24HRS MILITARY GENT WRISTWATCH

VINTAGE SWISS MADE ELGIN MILITARY DAYNIGHT TRUE 24HRS FOR US ARMY GENTS WRISTWATCH CIRCA 1960'S

MILITARY ISSUED TYPE A-17A US ARMY

VERY CLEAN BLACK/WHITE DAYNIGHT DIAL

CRYSTAL IS CLEAN, NO CRACK NO SCRATCHES

THE FRENCH EBAUCH QUARTZ MOVEMENT

LUMINESCENT SILVER TONE BLACK STEEL METAL HANDS 

24 HRS ARABIC MARKERS

ALL STAINLESS STEEL ROUND CASE MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 36mm INCLUDING THE CROWN AND 39mm LUG TO LUG

UNSIGNED CROWN

BLACK TEXTILE BAND FITS 8.5" WRIST

VERY RARE DISCONTINUED MODEL... !

WORKING CONDITION & KEEPING TIME

PRICE : USD650 (NEGOTIABLE) 

SUPER RARE AUTHENTIC GIRARD PERREGAUX CASQUETTE LED WATCH

Girard Perregaux Casquette LED Watch 9931 

1970s Super Rare

Limited Production Only about 2200 or 4000.

It is Highly Collectible Item For Collectors.

Calibre Module No. 396. Swiss Assembled.

The same new watch costs between $3000-$5000. 

Functions: Hour, Minute, Second

Approximate Manufacture Year ~ 1960s

Overall Condition: Extra Fine, Normal Wear

Accessories: no box, no paper

Personal collection but willing to letgo for USD3000 negotiable

Development of the "Casquette" how Girard Perregaux named this model internally began in 1974 in GP's own electronic department. Based on a high precision so called elecronic mother clock with nixie tube display to control subordinated clock units the next step was a small desktop clock where already macrolon was used for the housing. Finally the Casquette could be launched for sale in January 1976 and was produced until November 1978. Being even that innovative and courageous to invest in the development of a special module like for some of the other LED watch manufacturers to do so the production of this watch might not have been very profitable in the end. But today we owe them a spacy seventies LED watch design

Three Versions were available:

Ref. Number	Version	Historical price	Units produced
9934	18k rolled gold	SFr 775,-	2.200
9931	Stainless steel	SFr 680,-	4.000
9939	Macrolon	SFr 555,-	2.000

All versions were available with matching leather straps and several styles of braceletts, the width of the front and rear lugs being different. The grey macrolon (an especially strong and light glass-fibre strengthened polymer the first time to be used in wrist watch manufacturing) model with a different style macrolon bracelett - featuring a tricky construction which holds the band links together by two nylon strings inside. All versions have solid steel case backs, slightly curved for handsome fit on the wrist.

AUTHENTIC HUBLOT MDM LADIES WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND: AUTHENTIC HUBLOT MDM AUTOMATIC GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN: SWISS BY HUBLOT WATCH CO.

CIRCA: 2000's

MODEL: 1391.2 MDM DEPOSE MODELE S/N 409117

CRYSTAL: CLEAN SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL

MOVEMENT: HUBLOT QUARTZ MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK

FUNCTIONS: HOUR, MINUTES, SECOND CENTER SWIPE AND QUICK DATE AT 3:00

HANDS: SILVER GOLD METAL HAND

MARKERS: RAISED GOLD TONE MARKERS ON BEZEL

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL WITH GOLD TONE HIDDEN LUGS

LUGS: 12mm

MEASUREMENT: 28mm DIAMETER WITHOUT CROWN and 33mm LUG TO LUG

ENGRAVING ON CASEBACK: HUBLOT LOGO, MODELE,  5 ATM, S/N 409117 MODELE 1391.2

CROWN: HUBLOT SIGNED SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

STRAP: ORIGINAL HUBLOT RUBBER BAND WITH ORIGINAL DOUBLE FOLD HUBLOT GOLD TONE CLASP 

STRAP SIZE: 8"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, KEEPING TIME AND RECENTLY SERVICED. NO BOX NO PAPER BUT GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC6

PRICE: SOLD (via eBay in 2018)

Bried History of Hublot Wristwatch

A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for making Breil watches, Carlo Crocco left the company in 1976 to strike out on his own and create a new watch company. Moving to Switzerland he formed MDM Geneve and set about designing a watch that he named the Hublot after the French word for "porthole". The watch that he created featured the first natural rubber strap in the history of watchmaking. It took 3 years of research to create the strap. Despite failing to attract a single potential customer on the first day of its debut at the 1980 Basel Watch Fair, the watch quickly proved to be a commercial success with sales in excess of $2m in its first year.

The Jean-Claude Biver era

Carlo Crocco, preoccupied by his own design work and many activities for the Hand-in-Hand Foundation, a charity helping deprived children all around the world, set out to look for the man who could oversee his watchmaking business. In late 2003, Jean-Claude Biver, then president of Swatch Groups's Omega division, met Carlo Crocco, and in May 2004, Biver assumed duties as CEO, becoming a board member and minority shareholder in Hublot Watches.

Upon his arrival, Biver set about creating a new flagship collection that was unveiled in Basel in April 2005, with the Hublot "Big Bang" chronograph. It was an immediate success and orders increased threefold in one year. A few months later, in November 2005, the Big Bang chronograph was awarded internationally, receiving the "2005 Design Prize" in the "Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix", the "Sports Watch Prize" at the "Watch of the Year" ceremony in Japan, and the Middle Eastern Prize for the "Best Oversized Watch" at the Editor’s Choice "Watch of the Year" in Bahrain. Following the arrival of Biver in 2004, the brand's sales hit 24 million Swiss francs and by the end of 2006, sales were bordering on the 100 million Swiss franc mark. 

Acquisition by LVMH

In April 2008 it was announced that luxury goods group LVMH had acquired Hublot from founder Carlo Crocco for an undisclosed fee, adding to its existing portfolio of watch brands including TAG Heuer. 

Hublot WISeKey

At BaselWord 2009, Hublot unveiled a new method of detecting counterfeit watches. Using a WISeKey smart card, the system authenticates watches on Hublot's servers. The system went live in August 2009.

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE ELGIN TANQ GENTS WRISTWATCH

CIRCA 1980's

DRESS WATCH

S CREAM DIAL with BLACK RKMAN INDEX AND HANDS

ACRYLIC CRYSTAL IS CLEAN WITH NO CRACK OR SCRATCHES

THE 5 JEWEL ELGIN SWISS QUARTZ MOVEMENT

BLACK METAL HANDS

BLACK ROMAN MARKERS

GOLD PLATED BASE METAL MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 25mm INCLUDING THE CROWN AND 32mm LUG TO LUG

CABUCHON CROWN

GENUINE LEATHER LIZARD BAND FITS 8.5" WRIST

Cartier DESIGN, BEAUTIFUL, NO LONGER PRODUCEF RARE FIND!

EXCELLENT CONDITION, KEEPING TIME ABD NEW BATTERY INSTALLED

PRICE: PERSONAL COLLECTION BUT WILLING TO LET GO FOR USD159

BRIEF HISTORY OF ELGIN WATCHES

The Elgin Watch Company (also known as the Elgin National Watch Company) was the largest US watch company in terms of production. In fact, Elgin produced approximately one-half of the total number of higher-quality pocket watches manufactured in the United States. Total production over their 100 years of operation reached 60 million watches!

The clock tower at the Elgin National

Watch Company

The company was founded in 1864 in Elgin, Illinois as the National Watch Company, and some of the organizers were J. C. Adams, P. S. Bartlett, D. G. Currier, Otis Hoyt, and Charles H. Mason, with financial backing from former Chicago Mayor Benjamin W. Raymond. The factory for the National watch company was completed in 1866, and the first movement produced was an 18-size B. W. Raymond which sold in April of 1867 for the astounding price of $115. This identical watch, serial number 101, was sold at auction in New York in 1988 for $12,000. In 1874, the company officially changed their name to the Elgin National Watch Company, and that name remained until they stopped producing watches in the early '60's.

Elgin was not known for making the highest quality watches, though some of their higher grades were exquisitely made timepieces. Together with Waltham Watch Company, they dominated the huge market for mid-grade watches. Elgin watches remain extremely popular with collectors today because they are plentiful, can be obtained at reasonable prices, and can be relatively easily repaired due to the large number of watches and parts available.

Elgin shipped their first wristwatch in 1910, and later manufactured the first wrist watch to be qualified for railroad service, the grade 730A B. W. Raymond. Throughout their history, the Elgin National Watch Company was known for horological innovations. In 1958, they introduced the "DuraBalance," an ingenious design for a free-sprung balance (no regulator pins) which used spiral balance arms and small weights to govern the moment of inertia of the balance. They also produced the only American-made automatic wristwatch movements: grades 607, 618, 760, and 761. These movements featured bi-directional, full-rotor winding, and had two automatic winding gear ratios, which were automatically engaged as the mainspring tension increased.

The contributions of the Elgin National Watch Company to American Horological industry cannot be overstated. Many Elgin watches that were made over 100 years ago are still providing reliable and accurate daily service to their proud owners.

AUTHENTIC MERCEDES TRUCK LIMITED EDITION CHRONOGRAPH GENTS WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND : AUTHENTIC MERCEDES TRUCK LIMITED EDITION CHRONOGRAPH GENTS WRISTWATCH

MODEL : CHRONOGRAPH

MOVEMENT : 7JEWELS QUARZ CHRONOGRAPH MOVEMENT

ORIGIN : SWISS

SERIAL NO. : -

CIRCA : 1990's

CASING : SOLID AND HEAVY STAINLESS STEEL 

FUNCTION : HOUR, MINUTES, 3 REGISTERS CHRONOGRAPH, QUICKSET DATE AT 3:00

DIAL: BLACK

CROWN: UNSIGNED SS CROWN

MARKINGS: DIAL, CASEBACK, MOVEMENT

BAND : NEW GREEN TEXTILE MILITARY BAND
LUGS SIZE: 20mm

BAND WIDTH: 20mm

LENS/CERMIN : SCRATCH FREE SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL

MEASUREMENT : 37mm w/o CROWN X 44mm LUG TO LUG

WATER RESISTANT: 300M (3 ATM)

CONDITION/KONDISI : EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION AND KEEPING TIME, NO BOX NO PAPER BUT GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC

PRICE: SOLD

AUTHENTIC MATHEY TISSOT TANQ UNISEX WRISTWATCH

BRAND: MATHEY TISSOT

MADE IN: SWISS

CIRCA:  2009

MODEL: DRESS  TANQ

CRYSTAL: ACRYLIC CRYSTAL

MOVEMENT: MATHEY TISSOT SWISS QUARTZ ETA MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK

FUNCTION: HOUR, MINUTE, SUB SECOND AT 6:00

HANDS: GOLD TONE 

MARKERS: LUME GOLD TONE ROMAN

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT: 28mm DIAMETER EXCLUDING CROWN and 36mm LUG TO LUG

BACK CASE INSCRIPTION: MATHEY TISSOT ~STAINLESS STEEL

CROWN: GP

STRAP: GENUINE BROWN MT LEATHER BANDS

STRAP SIZE: 8.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, NO LONGER PRODUCED BY MATHEY TISSOT

PRICE: SOLD(SOLD TO Cikgu Zul from Sabah, Borneo)

History of  Mathey Tissot Watch Co

Near the center of the Swiss Jura Mountains, at an altitude of 3.000 feet, lies the village of Les Ponts de Martel, nestled in one of Switzerland’s most beautiful valleys. Here, in the year 1886, the Mathey-Tissot Watch Company was founded. Then began a unique story based on quality, integrity and personal service.

Mathey-Tissot initially specialised in "repeteater" watches, timepieces that chime the hour and halfhour. Soon afterwards, the company undertook the production of chronographs (stop-watches), crafted with such ingenuity and precision that they were immediately successful. In fact, numerous prizes and awards for superlative quality were collected throughout Europe.

In 1890 the Boer War between England and South Africa erupted, and the demand for Mathey- Tissot's fine watches became so great that a new larger factory was built. (Among the orders received was one from a jeweller in Scotland who had been commissioned by a local nobelman to supply a gold repeater watch to each oficer in his son's regiment, and a sterling silver model for each enlisted mall. Small though it may appear today, that order for 2'500 watches was enormous by prevailing standards.)

In the Kew Observatory Competition of 1914, Mathey-Tissot was represented by six chronographs, each with split-second timing. All not only passed the Class A rating with mention of "specially good", but one had a record never previously attained. Later that same year Mathey-Tissot followed this accomplishment with the award of the Grand Prix at Berne's Swiss National Exhibition. As the years passed, a striking array of other honors was earned by the famed craftsmaen of Mathey-Tissot. During World War I, Mathey-Tissot was called on to supply the United States Army Corps of Engineers with large quantities of precision chronographs, and Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander of the United States Expeditionary Forces, selected Mathey-Tissot as the watch to award to members of his staff.

In addition to its regular business of producing fine watches for jewellers throughout the world, Mathey-Tissot before and during World War II turned out thousands of timepieces for the United States armed forces and the British Navy.

Today Mathey-Tissot offers a rare blend of expertise, quality styling and personalized handling that unfortunately has all but gone from the watch industry. The key word is "Flexibility". Buyers, large or small are not just numbers - they are names and friends.
The Mathey-Tissot story has really just begun. Never content to " sit on its laurels", the company has big plans for the future - "big" in the sense that new, innovative watches and ideas will continue to position Mathey-Tissot in the forefront of super quality Swiss watch companies but "small" enough never to forget that relations with its customers is paramount.