THE ORIS MILITARY DATE POINTER QUADRUPLET (ALL SOLD)

KEMBAR EMPAT SERUPA - ORIS MILITARY DATE POINTER

No.4, medium size, diameter with crown 32mm, lug to lug 37mm. Quick Set Date Pointer, slight damage on date marker at 11 and 12 Price/harga : SOLD

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No.3, medium size, diameter with crown 32mm, lug to lug 37mm. Quick Set Date Pointer
price/harga : (SOLD)

No.2, medium size, diameter with crown 32mm, lug to lug 37mm. Non quick set
price/harga : SOLD

No.1, medium size, diameter with crown 32mm, lug to lug 37mm. Non quick set dATE pOINTER
price/harga : SOLD

KEMBAR EMPAT SERUPA - ORIS MILITARY DATE POINTER

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BRIEF HISTORY OF ORIS WRISTWATCHES

Oris was founded in 1904 by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian at Hölstein, Switzerland. Oris produced no-nonsense time pieces which were both high quality and affordable. With the advent of quartz, as with many other Swiss watch manufacturers, Oris struggled to find its place in the watch market.

However, Oris continued to focus on the manufacturing of mechanical watches. Oris has been able to hold its own creating watches with unique mechanical features that distinguish from those with electronics and quartz. Since the mid-eighties, Oris has progressively launched more mechanical watches with features such as analogue date pointers, automatic movement, mechanical chronographs, and analogue world time display. Interestingly, despite the turbulent changes the watch industry experienced, Oris has found itself doing what it always has, producing great value quality mechanical watches.

In 2004, Oris celebrated 100 years of existence and is going stronger than ever. Oris boasts many names wearing an Oris such as Sean Penn, Harrison Ford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicolas Cage, and Meg Ryan. Oris is also a key sponsor of the BMW Williams Formula 1 team, helping them to grow their brand awareness, and expand internationally.

The 2008 Oris range includes the TT3, Divers, Artelier, BC3, BC4, Big Crown, Miles, Chronoris, Classic and Flight Timer collections.

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE ZENTRA PANTHER LADIES WRISTWATCH

IRHOMDEYS VINTAGE COLLECTION PROUDLY PRESENTS - AUTHENTIC VINTAGE ZENTRA PANTHER LADIES WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: ZENTRA

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1960's

MODEL: SQUARE PANTHER (ALMOST SIMILAR DESIGN WITH CARTIER PANTHER)

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACCRYLIC CLEAN/BERSIH

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SWISS 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: WHITE/PUTIH

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: DRESSWATCH

HANDS/JARUM: SS METAL/ METAL SS

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: BLACK ROMAN/ROMANI HITAM

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 11mm FIXED MESH BAND

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 26mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 28mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: ZENTRA 070 324 22

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: FIXED STAINLESS STEEL WIRE MESH BAND WITH SOME BRASSING AT THE BACK OF MESH

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 6.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL

PRICE/HARGA: RM350 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

AUTHENTIC VINTAGE LONGINES MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC LONGINE MILITARY GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1960's (SERIAL NO. 13112852 )

MODEL: MILITARY

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: MINERAL

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: LONGINES 17 JEWELS AUTOMATIC MOVEMENT Cal.350

DIAL COLOR: MILITARY BLACK/HITAM MILITARY

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS WHITE/ PUTIH LUMINASI

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: LUMINOUS ARABIC WHITE MILITARY/PUTIH ARABIC LUMINASI

CASING : BRUSHED STAINLESS STEEL/ KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 19mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 40mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 46mm LUG TO LUG (LARGE MILITARY DIAL AND BOLD MARKERS)

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: -

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: BLACK LEATHER STRAP

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & VERY RARE AND VERY HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: (SOLD TO MR CHIN FROM CHENG, MELAKA)

HISTORY OF LONGINES AND WITTNAUER WATCHES

Longines Watch Company was started in 1832 by Auguste Agassiz. Agassiz opened a workshop in St Imier, Switzerland. He operated what today would be called a "Home Business". Workers would work on watches out of thier own homes, whigh Agassiz would later sell.

Sometime between the years of 1854 and 1866 Agassiz handed down over the operation of the watchmaking business to his nephew Ernest Francillon. Realizing the lack of consistant quality coming from the manufacture of watches in so many locations, Francillon soon built a factory in Les Longines near St. Imier and consolidated all of the areas watchmaking under one roof. The Longines name was born.

The company began producing chronographs in 1879. They later produced aviator watches and cockpit instruments.

The company registered its "Winged Hourglass" trademark in May of 1890.

In 1912 the company produced the first automatic timekeeping device. From that day Longines has long been associated with time-keeping at major sporting events.

In the 1950's Longines purchased the Wittnauer watch company and marketed a number of very similar lines of watches in the US under both brand names.

In my opinion, Longines Wittnauer is one of the finest watches a collector can find. The classic designs are fantastic. The accuracy and reliability is amazing, and the parts are readily available. One of my favorites.

ANOTHER YOUNGER BROTHER OF GRUEN PRECISION DAYDATE - COMING SOON

GAMBAR/PICTURES COMING SOON

BRAND/JENAMA: VINTAGE GRUEN PRECISION GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1950's

MODEL: Dresswatch

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SWISS GRUEN PRECISION 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: GOLD CHAMPAGNE/WARNA KEEMASAN

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: i. DATE AT 6:00 AND DATE AT 3:00/TARIKH AT 3:00 DAN HARI PADA 6:00

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS GOLD TONE/ KEEMASAN LUMINASI

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: GOLD TONE ARABIC /KEEMASAN ARABIC

CASING : GOLD PLATED / SADUR EMAS

LUGS: 18mm UNIQUE DESIGN HARD TO FIND

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 36mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 41mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: GRUEN

CROWN: GOLD PLATED/ SADUR EMAS

STRAP/TALI: NEW GENUINE BROWN LEATHER/ KULIT ASLI WARNA COKLAT BARU

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: RM700 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

BRIEF HISTORY OF GRUEN WATCHES

The first Gruen watches are of very high quality and are beautifully made. Both 18 and 16 size versions were manufactured, each in both open face and hunter styles, and in 18- and 21-jewel versions. The earliest D. Gruen & Son serial numbers started around 62000. The Gruens dealt directly with individual jewelry stores; there were no wholesalers or jobbers involved in the distribution of their watches.

In 1898 George Gruen joined the firm as treasurer and financial officer. The company incorporated and its name changed to D. Gruen, Sons & Company.

In 1903 Gruen introduces its "VeriThin" line of watches.

In 1908 Gruen introduced both men's and women's wristwatches. These proved popular only with women. Gruen was one of a very few companies to take wristwatches seriously this early, seeing their potential in spite of disappointing early sales to male customers.

Gruen made both wrist and pocket watches for the military during World War I. Most had silver cases, which would tarnish but would not corrode under adverse conditions. To satisfy U.S. military regulations, these watches all have luminous dial markings and hands.

1911 Dietrich Gruen dies suddenly. Fred Gruen takes control of the company.

In 1913 the company purchased Nanny Goat Hill, a pasture just outside of Cincinnati, and renamed it Time Hill. Work began on a new building designed by architect Guy C. Burroughs at a construction cost estimated at $50,000 USD. The company moved to the new location in 1917.

1921: Gruen introduces The Cartouche wrist watch calling it "The logical wrist watch shape".

1922: Gruen introduces "The Pentagon" pocket watch. "the Croix de Guerre of American achievement"

Up until 1922 there had actually been three Gruen companies: D. Gruen, Sons & Company; The Gruen National Watch Case Company of Cincinnati; and The Gruen Watch Manufacturing Company of Biel, Switzerland. In 1922 all three businesses were merged to form the Gruen Watch Company, with Fred as President.

In 1924, Gruen released a special pocket watch in an edition of 600 to commemorate their 50th anniversary. The watch cost $500 at the time.

In 1925, Gruen introduced the men's Quadron. These were rectangular watches containing very high-quality 15-j or 17-j tonneau-shaped movements.

In 1928 Gruen releases The Techni-Quadron. The famous Techni-Quadron "doctor's watches" are so-called because the large seconds dial was handy for timing a patient's pulse.

In 1935 Fred Gruen, now 63 years old, became Chairman of the Board and Benjamin S. Katz was brought in as President of the Gruen Watch Company. In 1935, Gruen was about $1.8 million USD (roughly $36 million USD today) in debt; nervous stockholders and investors were behind the change. Fred would retire in 1940, but continued to sit on the board for the rest of his life.

In 1935 Gruen introduces the most famous Gruen wristwatch- "The Curvex". These watches are one of the greatest examples of 1930s streamlined design.

1937: Gruen introduces "The Ristside" or "driver's" watches.

In 1938, continuing the success of their VeriThin pocket watches, Gruen also launched a series of Veri-Thin wristwatches. Contemporary Curvex and Veri-Thin movements often are closely related, and can share many parts. By the 1940s, most Gruen wristwatches were either Veri-Thin or Curvex models.

Although Gruen did not manufacture watches for the U.S. military, they offered the public a collection of eight military-style watches, to be used as personal watches.

In 1949, the company introduced their first watches made entirely in the U.S., a line of 21-jewel men's models called the "Gruen 21". The movements are marked "Cincinnati" or "US" instead of the usual "Switzerland."

Fred Gruen retired in 1940 and died in 1945, and his brother George died in 1952. In 1953 the Gruen family sold their interest in the company. The same year, Gruen president Benjamin Katz was forced into retirement after a scandal, and in 1954 the company bought out his shares for $2 million USD.

In 1953, the Gruen Watch Company had its highest sales in its entire history.
The Myth about Gruen, Rolex and Aegler - The True History

One of the most deeply-held myths about Gruen is that Gruen and Rolex at one time manufactured movements for each other's watches. Both firms did use some of the same movements—the best known examples are the Gruen Techi-Quadron and its twin, the Rolex Prince. In reality, these movements were manufactured by a third company, Aegler, who was a very close neighbor to the Gruen Precision Factory.

Above: The Aegler factory in Biel. Aegler made movements for Rolex (which had no manufacturing capability at the time), and this building is the main Rolex factory today. Aegler was partly owned by Gruen.

Gruen and Rolex were Aegler's biggest customers, and were both large shareholders as well—the full company name at one time was, Aegler, Societe Anonyme, Fabrique des Montres Rolex & Gruen Guild A. Gruen and Rolex both occasionally showed pictures of the huge Aegler factory in their advertising, making the implication that this was a Gruen- or Rolex-owned facility, although ownership at the time was divided among Gruen, Rolex and Aegler itself. Gruen sold their Aegler shares in the 1930s, after they moved all production to the Precision Factory. After this time, Aegler became increasingly tied to Rolex through the sale of stock. Today, the main Rolex building in Biel is the old Aegler factory, and though it is now owned by Rolex, it is still run by the Aegler family.

This article taken from Complete Price Guide to Watches, American Wriswatches, Rolex Wristwatches: Best of Time and Gruen Master Book

AUNTHENTIC VINTAGE BUREN GRANDPRIX TRANSITIONAL WATCH

IRHOMDEYS VINTAGE COLLECTION PROUDLY PRESENTS - AUTHENTIC VINTAGE BUREN GRANDPRIX TRANSITIONAL MEN'S WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA: BUREN

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1930's

MODEL: TRANSITIONAL

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACCRYLIC CLEAN/BERSIH

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: BUREN GRANDPRIX 17 JEWELS MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT

DIAL COLOR: BLACK PORCELAIN/PORSELIN HITAM WITH BEAUTIFUL PATINA

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: TRANSITIONAL WATCH

HANDS/JARUM: LUMINOUS SS METAL/ METAL SS LUMINASI

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: WHITE LUMINOUS MILITARY ARABIC/ARABIC MILITARY

CASING : STAINLESS STEEL/KELULI SEPENUHNYA

LUGS: 10mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 35mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 39mm LUG TO LUG

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: -

CROWN: SS/ KELULI

STRAP/TALI: BLACK TEXTILE RIBBON BAND

SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

EXCELLENT CONDITION, WORKING, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL

PRICE/HARGA: RM700 (NEGOTIABLE/BOLEH DIRUNDING)

BRIEF HISTORY OF BUREN WATCHES

Buren was named after the location of is initial start up at a little village in Switzerland called Buren, located on the banks of the Aare. The firm started in 1842 making watch parts. In 1873, Buren started making complete watches and called themselves F Suter & Co.

F Suter & Co. continued with varying success to make watches with the trade name of 'Buren' for several years until it was taken over by the British firm of H Williamson Ltd in 1898.

>H Williamson Ltd, specifically bought the Buren factory to supply Swiss parts for the watches he was making in the UK. This later lead to a court case where he was found guilty of selling 'English Made' watches with Swiss parts in them. While H Williamson Ltd owned the Buren brand, they generally allowed the company to continue on its own with them just being the Parent company and receiving parts from them.

By 1905, Buren were making 500 watches a day. Many of them for the parent company, but some were sold in Germany and the USA under the Buren name.

By 1949, Buren were back producing 22 different calibers for watches. In 1954, they patented the mini-rotor for automatic watches. This was a major achievement as the smaller rotor meant that it could be sunk flush with the watch movement, so making automatic watches a lot slimmer than they had been - just under 3mm in fact.

In 1966, Hamilton Swiss acquired the Büren Watch Company in Switzerland, including all factories and technologies that had been developed by Büren up to that point. From 1966 to 1969, Hamilton Lancaster and Buren Switzerland were operated as a joint concern, with Hamilton using a number of Swiss movements for their "American" watches and Buren utilizing a number of components manufactured by Hamilton Lancaster. It was during this time that Hamilton started to selectively incorporate the highly innovative Buren Microtor (aka Micro Rotor/Microrotor) movement into small numbers of certain upper tier watches (in addition to their ordinary hand-wind and traditional automatic watches).

The Buren (now Hamilton/Buren) Microtor was the first patented automatic wristwatch movement to eliminate the sizable external oscillating weight inherent to most automatic winding watches. Instead, it utilized a much smaller weight that was entirely integrated into the chassis of the movement. This design allowed for a substantially slimmer automatic watch that still retained a center sweep second hand. The Microtor concept was also conceived by Universal Geneve for use in their famous Polerouter series of timepieces during this same time. The official title of "first Microtor movement" is still in dispute amongst some horology aficionados, even though Buren patented their design in 1954 while Universal Geneve applied for their patent in May of 1955

In 1969, the Hamilton Watch Company completely ceased its American manufacturing operations with the closure of its factory in Lancaster, PA, shifting the entire balance of its manufacturing operations to the Buren factory in Switzerland.

From 1969 to 1972, all new Hamilton watches were produced in Switzerland by Hamilton's Buren subsidiary. In 1971, the Buren brand was returned to Swiss ownership and by 1972, the Buren-Hamilton partnership was dissolved and the factory liquidated, due to decreased interest and sales of the Hamilton-Buren product.