History of watches

Excelsior Park "Paratrooper" chronograph
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History of watches

Excelsior Park "Paratrooper" chronograph

Excelsior Park
Around 1945, Excelsior Park launched a highly original chronograph. It had two unique features: an orientation hand in the center of the dial and an additional crown for setting the seconds hand to zero.
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A dial turn of the Landeron 189
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A dial turn of the Landeron 189

After the Eberhard Contodat, the first chronograph with a single date window, released in 1957, the Landeron ébauches factory brought out its own version in 1963
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The Hamilton Fontainebleau chronograph
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The Hamilton Fontainebleau chronograph

Hamilton
Who today remembers the Hamilton chronographs of the 70s? Overshadowed by Breitling and Heuer, Hamilton played a crucial role in the launch of the famous Chronomatic movement.
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Calendar chronographs with rotating bezel adjustment
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Calendar chronographs with rotating bezel adjustment

Among the many chronograph-calendar calibers offered by Ebauches SA in the 1950s, a small number featured a very special adjustment of the calendar functions: the adjustment pushers were replaced by a system operated by a rotating bezel.
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The first big date chronographs
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The first big date chronographs

The first watches with date window began to be mass-produced in the 1930s, in particular by Mimo, with its Mimo-Meter model dating from 1930, and by Helvétia, a brand of the General Watch Co. in Bienne, which in 1932 offered an attractive rectangular model with a large date window.
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Lowenthal "4-temps" single-pusher chronograph
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Lowenthal "4-temps" single-pusher chronograph

Lowenthal
One might think that this handsome Lowenthal chronograph from the 1930s is a simple single-pusher chronograph, as was common in Switzerland at the time. However, a small detail on the pusher should attract attention: there's a crenellation at the end, which actually allows the pusher to be pulled out. This is the sign of the rather rare chronographs made...
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Minerva calibre 52
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Minerva calibre 52

Minerva
By Joel Pynson. Minerva is recognized by all vintage chronograph collectors for its aesthetic qualities and the superb finishing of its calibers. However, there is one Minerva chronograph that is an exception: the one equipped with the curious caliber 52. It is the only Minerva manufacture caliber that we do not want to show too much!
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The "third" Swiss dive watch: Cornavin P.810
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The "third" Swiss dive watch: Cornavin P.810

Cornavin
The diving wristwatch standard was defined in the early 1950s: a water-resistant steel case, a black dial with luminescent numerals and hour markers, and a rotating bezel to indicate dive time and decompression stops.
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