#Cyma pocket watch history manual

There is one that IвЂ™ve seen that is in impeccable condition, while most of the rest are hurt by very obvious redials. While finding any form of scholarship on this watch is pretty much laughable at this point, it has not meant I havenвЂ™t seen a few examples floating around the Internet.

And this list is the only written mention of a pocket watch that could resemble mine, at least that IвЂ™ve managed to find. Southerland, lists the popular pocket watches of the time. About 6 paragraphs on the state of the Ethiopian watch market at that time and in one of these paragraphs the author, General Council Addison E. Form the age of the watch, to it being Ethiopian, there seemed to be nothing really written about a watch that could resemble this one.ДЄt this point I would just like to thank google for doing the impossible for me, I found a reference to the Ethiopian watch market on a 1929 USA commerce report. Finding any form of written information about this type of watch really seemed impossible. Since they could not really tell me why or for whom it was produced I began my tedious search to find out myself. I came to learn the manufacture year for the case, 1906-08, that sadly the hands are broken and that the watch had been serviced. Omega sent it off to their valuation company and it came back with basic information, but to me that was so much more than I knew about it at that point.

IвЂ™m not gonna lie, I donвЂ™t think they really knew much about it. Not knowing anything about pocket watches or of the existence of any Ethiopian market watches I bought the watch and had it sent off to Omega immediately. Being Ethiopian myself I recognised the language, the lion, and if it was real, the importance of owning a little bit of history. This lion, with a crown on its head and holding the cross sceptre looks as if itвЂ™s standing in grass, an iconic symbol of past Ethiopian Emperors. On the back of this small 48mm pocket watch stands a lion, but not merely any lion, The Lion of Judah. A great cure for that would be to flip the pocket watch to reveal the intricate engraving on the back. So far this pocket watch would, at best, garner mild curiosity from a few watch admirers. Even more obscurely these words are written in Amharic using the GeвЂ™ez alphabet, the native alphabet of Ethiopia. This doesnвЂ™t really mean a lot to people in the watch community, and truthfully itвЂ™s just the name of a city and neighbourhood in Ethiopia. On the dial of this typical looking watch were the words Addis Abeba / Bole.

#Cyma pocket watch history manual

A beautiful manual wind Omega pocket watch from 1906/8. So, forВ the past year IвЂ™ve been searching for anything I can find on a piece I stumbled upon on eBay. Emperor Haile Selase and was auction by ChristieвЂ™s in 2017.

After a few pages of this you will most probably end up with the most famous watch with an Ethiopian connection a black dial Patek Philippe 2497. 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 вЂњon a par with some of the finest chronograph movements we have ever seen, regardless of manufacture or priceвЂ¦ built to the same quality as a comparable Patek Philippe movement.When you first search for вЂњEthiopian watchesвЂќ the first few pages of google are going to either be fake watches for sale in Ethiopia or just a watch and no connection with Ethiopia. The company produced its own movements (its first automatic was released in 1944), but used Venus hand-wound calibres for its chronographs. 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. Record once enjoyed a reputation for high precision and was therefore chosen to provide various armed forces around the world with service watches. 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 вЂ“ a highly unusual design at the time. Record was founded in 1903 in the Swiss town of Tramelan in the Bernese Jura.