Enicar Sherpa Tråd

[olof]

Angående kvaliteten har Du vist ret.

Angående Jules Racine: Det seer ud som om der er ingen forbindelse til Aristide Racine / Enicar:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/enicar-...87411.html

Citat:The creation of the brand name seems a bit funny. Enicar was founded by Artiste Racine (Racine Watch Co) in 1914 in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, known as a mecca of swiss watchmaking and watchmaking tradition. If you spell R A C I N E backwards you will have E N I C A R. Complete name: Manufacture d`Horlogerie Enicar SA.

The business objective - when starting up the business - was the production of lever watches with a wide selection of movements.

Later the factory moved to Lengnau (Longeau), the german speaking part of Switzerland. Here a specialization took place, Artiste Racine got specialized into sports watches which have been sold unter his trademark „AR in a Pentagon“


which later changed (see gifs).

Starting in the 30ties ENICAR sold watches under the following brand names:
* Longeau
* Alprose
* Etsira
* Savillon.
These watches have been less expensive but weren´t of the same quality the top brand watches have been. "Swisbaby" was a wrist alarm watch made by ENICAR SA (pin lever movement 500).

In the 60ties (around 1962) ENICAR started to produce automatic movements of their own, the „Rubirotor“ is one example of Enicar´s timepieces out of that time period. Till that time ENICAR watches haven been fitted with "ebauches" made by A.Schild (AS).

ENICAR watches haven been known for their durability, they have been made to extremly high standards as many went to export to China where there has been only little watch making/servicing knowledge.
In 1956, members of a swiss Himalayan expedition relied on Enicar watches and as the history will tell you the expectations were fully met. The „Sherpa“ models have become world wide known after that; to name some models: Sherpa, Sherpa Time (with world timer bezel), Sherpa Ultradive (with inner dive time wheel), Serpa Star, Sherpa Jet.


The Enicar Sherpa Dive was rated wr to 200 M. The technical gimmick of this watch was a patented back, which was equipped with a bayonet socket (German: Bajonett-Verschluss, I hope I translated right or understandable at least).
The bezel was oil-embedded which should guarantee a long time faultless handling.
Accordingly the Sherpa Dive was used by military units. The watch was advertised as a part of the Rebikoff Dive Equippment by dive pionier Hans Hass.


Other interesting models (you may search google for pics which will lead you to some wonderful watches):

Enicar Automatic Digital Jump Hour (a watch which fitted the taste of the 70ties)
Enicar Sherpa Jet Graph (a chrono with bi-colour 24h bezel)
Sherpa Worldtimer
Seapearl

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Sources:
Klassische Armbanduhren von A-Z, Gisbert L Brunner, Chr. Pfeiffer-Belli, Ebner-Verlag, ISBN: 3-87188-250-X
Wristwatches, same authors, Könemann editors, ISBN: 3-8290-0660-8,
Armbanduhren, 100 years of development, Kahle, Mühe, Brunner, Callwey editors, ISBN: 3-7667-1241-1.

Roland Ranfft skriver, at der er ingen forbindelse:
http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.c...1098284422

Alt det har jeg fundet her:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f11/racine-...09914.html

Som indeholder til sidst det her:

Citat:.... They are related as I understand through the Gallet connection. Ariste Racine was Jules Racine cousin. There is some confusion in the stories that I have been told, but Ariste was not liked, or he did not get on with his uncle Gallet. So he went and did his own things.
Most Racine watches are made by Gallet. But this is not the same for the Enicar watches. Alprosa watches are made by Enicar. Some Longeau are also Enicar. ...

Så nej tak - jeg behøver ikke virkeligt et Racine-Ur.
Men man skal jo aldrigt sige aldrig...

Hilsen,
Olof