Record Watch Company Serial Numbers
The Pocket Watch Database has compiled data covering the major American pocket watch manufacturers and created an easy way to find information using the serial number on the watch movement. Here are a few tips to find information about your pocket watch: Always input the serial number from the pocket watch movement (the 'mechanism' of the watch). Second Time Around Watch Company main::310-271.6615 toll free::800-977.7615 fax::310-271.1473. You enter the watches number into the apprpriate field, in the next window you'll see your model name, model number and serial number of your watch. This information should fully match the data on your watch back cover and instruction manual sheet - then you can then be rest assured that you're the owner of the fully legal product. Dec 23, 2015 Once again, I’d like to shed some light on a watch manufacture that fell victim to electric and battery-powered watches, so let’s take a look at Record Watch Company. Photo courtesy of Bukowskis The genesis of Record’s origins is coincidentally with one of their most sought after watches, the Sector watch. Your watch appears to have seven jewels, which is usually the minimum number of jewels that a 'jeweled-lever' watch can have. Komplete audio 6 control panel windows 10. Those jewels are a hole jewel and cap jewel at each end of the balance staff (4), a roller jewel pin to trip the pallet fork (1) and two pallet stones to release the escape wheel one tooth at a time (2), for a total of.
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Record was founded in 1903 in the Swiss town of Tramelan in the Bernese Jura. The company was formed by a conglomerate who wanted to acquire and realize the patent of the Sector Watch, a triangular pocket watch with retrograde display – a highly unusual design at the time. Record once enjoyed a reputation for high precision and was therefore chosen to provide various armed forces around the world with service watches. Cracks and serial keys.
Many of their timepieces were provided with an official chronometer certificate, while the company was also known for its moonphase calendar watches (look out for the beautiful Datofix models at auction) and chronographs. The company produced its own movements (its first automatic was released in 1944), but used Venus hand-wound calibres for its chronographs.
Record Watch Company Serial Numbers List
US vintage watch dealer Robert Maron, writing on his website about a Record rattrapante chronograph from the 1930s that passed through his hands, described its Calibre 179 movement as “on a par with some of the finest chronograph movements we have ever seen, regardless of manufacture or price… built to the same quality as a comparable Patek Philippe movement.”
In 1961 Record lost its independence when it was acquired by Longines (based in the neighbouring municipality of Saint Imier) through a purchase of shares. Subsequently, watches were produced with the double signature “Record Longines”, and were made with ETA calibres. Record limped along until 1991 when production finally ceased.
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However “new” Record watches live on, in a manner of speaking, through the Zeno watch company of Basel, which uses old Record pocket watch movements in its limited edition models. General Record service watches from the 1940s and 1950s with a typical military aesthetic (black dial, broad arrow, lume-filled hands etc) can be picked up fairly easily from vintage shops and eBay for $500-1000 alongside similar models from the likes of Cyma, Buren and Timor.