AUTHENTIC VINTAGE GLYCINE TANQ GENTS WRISTWATCH

BRAND/JENAMA : GLYCINE

MODEL : TANQ DRESS WATCH

MOVEMENT/ENJIN :MECHANICAL WINDING

ORIGIN/BUATAN : SWISS
NO. SIRI/SERIAL NO. : 838 522

CIRCA/TAHUN : 1960'S

CASING/KEMASAN : GOLD PLATED SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

MOVEMENT/PERGERAKAN : INHOUSE SWISS 17 JEWELS GLYCINE MANUAL WINDING
DIAL: SILVER TEXTURED DIAL
MARKER/TANDA WAKTU: STICK/BLACK
HANDS/JARUM: BLACK /LOGAM HITAM

MARKINGS/TANDA JENAMA : DIAL/MOVEMENT

LENS/CERMIN : ACRYLIC

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN : 32mm w/o CROWN AND 34mm LUG TO LUGAND

CONDITION/KONDISI : NEW OLD STOCK/BARU STOK LAMA
PRICE: USD200 (NEGOTIABLE) 

HISTORY OF GLYCINE WATCHES

In the 70s, the Swiss watch industry – late in introducing quartz movements – was hit by the proliferation of quartz watches from the Far East. The technological revolution brought about by the quartz movement, together with the worldwide recession and a massive increase in value of the Swiss franc, pushed many manufacturers to the brink of disaster.

The products that had earned Glycine such an excellent reputation, namely high-quality mechanical watches and above all automatic watches, were suddenly no longer in general demand. Customers everywhere were buying Japanese quartz watches or American digital LED watches. The lucrative business with highly-regarded automatic watches was over, and these were now being sold off at give-away prices.

The market went through a turnaround in its values, a tendency which further intensified as the price for the initially exorbitantly expensive quartz watches consistently dropped to a level where it finally drove even the cheap pin-pallet (Roskopf) mechanical movements out of the market. Many market shares were lost, the industry entered into a crisis that lasted six years and cost roughly 60,000 jobs.

Glycine too suffered heavily but managed to fight on. In 1984, soldiering on with a reduction in staff, Glycine was sold to Hans Brechbühler, who had been working for years with Glycine in a loose cooperation based on the joint development and exchange of watch models.

Followin, the purchase of Glycine in 1984, Brechbühler switched over to the brand watch business, an entirely new experience for him. Progressively, new products were developed that enabled Glycine to work successfully in countries such as Scandinavia, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany.