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Jun 22, 2020, 05:45 PM
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Jun 22, 2020, 05:59 PM
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I was always lead to believe they was marketing bluff for prospective customers remember a link I had to a site once about them and I remember this I cut and pasted a while back but never used
The Self-Winding Swiss Watch: The Timekeeper of the Future. Editions Ebauches S.A., Switzerland, 1954. Hard wraps. A small unusual booklet produced in 1954 showing, by the use of transparent layers, how the parts of the automatic self-winding mechanism are applied to a watch movement. The description of how the self-winding mechanism works, and the names of the parts are given in French, English, Spanish, German and Italian. Eleven transparent plastic overlay pages illustrate the workings of this self-winding watch. Twelfth plastic page describes, in five languages, how the automatic device functions. |
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sharky
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Jun 23, 2020, 01:26 AM
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Zenith & Vintage Mod
What was the copyright date, 1984? Anything earlier? That is pretty cool. Nice find!
Thanks for sharing,
Dan
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Jun 23, 2020, 08:09 AM
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from what I gather they did several sets this one was from i jan 1954 they did a chronograph one
(Switzerland: Editions F. H 1952). 8vo. Orig. illust. wrappers spiral bound (rubbed). Unpaginated. With 17 colour plates and 1 b/w graph.
from 1952
sharky
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Jun 23, 2020, 08:11 AM
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they can still be had but not sure if some are much later redo's maybe
found the chrono one here for sale
http://berkelouw.com.au/rare-book/th...870/buy-online
sharky
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Jun 23, 2020, 08:15 AM
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sharky
one of the most original good guys their was never anything but a true friend "the daito to my shoto"
rest easy good buddy
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Jun 23, 2020, 08:25 AM
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always been tempted to pick up one of these but a tenner seems a lot
sharky
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rest easy good buddy
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Jun 23, 2020, 09:03 AM
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Those books are so cool, not seen anything like it before! Horology books are quite addictive. That’s another set to add to the list!
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Jun 23, 2020, 09:48 AM
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sharky
one of the most original good guys their was never anything but a true friend "the daito to my shoto"
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Jun 25, 2020, 02:27 AM
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Zenith & Vintage Mod
The books are cool, but I tired of them after a while. Current watchmaking is more of replace the part than repair. And I was never one to find info I need to fix older watches. For example, one would get a pocket watch using a temp compensated balance wheel. It was out of poise. How did it get that way? Was it age? Did a watchmaking bend things to make it time out right? All I know is that I could make the arms of the balance wheel line up and poise the balance by removing metal from the screws, and it typically would not run much better. Given the chance of making a mess of things by either breaking a balance screw or the hairspring collar, I gave up.