20s Zenith Barrel Reassembly Manual Chromed Art Deco Rare Caliber 10.5

My personal website, send a message to ask me the address. To follow my repairs: ocoeurdutemps facebook. Rooted in a long tradition, zenith watches tell an exemplary human and technical adventure. When in 1705 daniel jeanrichard set up a workshop in Locle, he was not aware of giving birth to one of the most important places in Swiss precision watchmaking. Zenith is built on the work of a pioneer.

By creating its own factory in 1865, georges favre-jacot put all its energy to promote a new watchmaking, born from the meeting of refined craftsmanship, with the industrial efficiency. He is one of the first to understand the importance of interchangeable parts to streamline production and thus improve the accuracy and reliability of mechanical watches. Generations of watchmakers, timekeepers and engineers have opened the world's markets to prestigious products: hand-crafted pocket watches, chronographs, marine chronometers, sleek quartz watches. It brings together all the trades and know-how that make up watchmaking. Thus was born one of the very first Swiss manufactures.

Through its many innovations, zenith has always contributed to the development of Swiss Haute Horlogerie. Today, in the era of electronics, zenith men passionately cultivate the values that have made their company a center of Swiss watchmaking creativity. Zenith has staked its history of more than 1500 victories: first observatory prizes, precision records, oscars, medals. An international award, an unparalleled prize list, rewards a passionate quest for technical and aesthetic perfection. Of all the watchmaking domain, the old watch is certainly the most collected object.

The first portable watches date from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when watchmakers began to make reductions in table clocks, which became portable thanks to the invention of the spring. Some historians believe that the need for a mobile clock came from the rich merchants of the Renaissance.

They had to know the time in their \The coach watch was born of this need. The pendant watch, then the pocket watch would only be the reduction. The first watches are rarely signed. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that a few movements appeared on the watches of great watchmakers of the Breguet, Leroy, Patek Philippe type ... Over the course of the eighteenth century, we find more and more frequently a signature on the dial and on the move. In the nineteenth it is sometimes found on the case or on the inner cover. The signature of the watch is today an important criterion for the collector because it allows to precisely locate the time, the context and the place, because we have a surprising number of information on some watchmakers. Art Deco, in the Roaring Twenties, a style! Art Deco is an artistic movement born in the 1910s and which flourished in the 1920s before declining in the 1930s. It is the first architecture-decoration movement of a global nature.

Art deco is the abbreviation of \The design that begins on the large series of equipment of the home and offices can be associated, as well as the fashion and the typography of the signs and advertisements displayed and the signs. Farewell art \The period \Previously round or curved, the forms of the period go to the purest.

A watch of taste had to be in adequacy with the tendency of the time, in direct opposition with what was done before. The rectangular shape, barrel, sometimes square, becomes almost the norm. In fact, all major watchmaking houses have tried this form which gradually disappears during the Second World War. Since then, this form remains marginal in the world of watchmaking.

With regular returns in the trend, this nice shape fits perfectly on the wrist. Always refined, these models have their followers, especially lovers of fine watches. Period: 1920s, in full art deco period.

Dimensions: width excluding winding 25 mm, 40 mm at the end of the handles and 8. Mm including glass thickness, male model in this period but also suitable for ladies nowadays (see the pictures of the wrist watch). Sober, light gray, 2 tones, quickly legible, with typical art deco figures and blued steel \Glass: plexi, curved, new.

Movement: caliber 10.5, created at the beginning of the twentieth century, between 1900 and 1905, manual winding mechanism, 15 jewels, achieving 18,000 vibrations per hour, spiral \Note that these are fees that you will not have to do knowing that a complete overhaul for this kind of watch costs around 110 at a \of time .. bracelets: genuine \Is the perfect representation of a collection watch. It is chromed metal and dates from the beginning of the twentieth century. The case is in good condition for the time, we feel that the former owner brought this timepiece with the greatest care despite the acidity of its perspiration that attacked the back. I offer you the opportunity to pay by. Thank you for contacting me at 06 75 86 37 50 for all your questions. 15 euros to all the countries. Note also, for new ebayers, objects will be sent after the receipt of their payment, no refund possible, thank you for your understanding. If you want more information or photos, do not hesitate to contact me every day.

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strap material: genuine leather <\/ li>
shape of the dial: barrel <\/ li>
year of manufacture: 1920s <\/ li>
case material: chromed metal <\/ li>
display: needles <\/ li>
manufacturer part number: not applicable <\/ li>
movement: mechanical manual winding <\/ li>
brand: zenith <\/ li>
gender: woman <\/ li> <\/ Ul>