Enicar Sherpa Guide

One of my personal all time favorite watches, this watch is just cool looking! If you take a look at the watch you will notice that there is an extra hand instead of the 3 hands that depict hours, minutes, seconds. The Enicar Sherpa Guide feature one more hand its a 24 hour hand, while the hour hand makes a full revolution from 12:00 back to 12:00 every 12 hours the minute hand making a revolution every hour the 24 hour hand make a revolution only one time a day (24 hours). The reason for this is that the Sherpa Guide can track a second time zone. Which comes in handy for people who travel alot, you can put your time for lets say Los Angles and still know what time it is in London. Just by using the 24 hour hand and the internal bezel which features a 24 hours of the day on it.

The watch features a black dial, yellow and blue internal bezel with white, red and checkered colored hands, Date featured at 3:00 position. The face reads Enicar Sherpa Guide Automatic and, Swiss Made. Case Back reads 600. Sold As is and I have no idea what if any of the servicing history is, so as always I suggest a servicing. In Grade B condition. With scratches on the crystal .

Asking
$600

Early Wrist Watch History

In 1904, Alberto Santos-Dumont, an early aviator, asked his friend, a French watchmaker called Louis Cartier, to design a watch that could be useful during his flights. The wristwatch had already been invented by Patek Philippe, in 1868, but only as a "lady’s bracelet watch", intended as jewelry. As pocket watches were unsuitable, Louis Cartier created the Santos wristwatch, the first man's wristwatch and the first designed for practical use.

Wristwatches gained in popularity during World War I, when officers found them to be more convenient than pocket watches in battle. Also, because the pocket watch was mainly a middle class item, the enlisted men usually owned wristwatches, which they brought with them. Artillery and infantry officers depended on their watches as battles became more complicated and coordinated attacks became necessary. Wristwatches were found to be needed in the air as much as on the ground: military pilots found them more convenient than pocket watches for the same reasons as Santos-Dumont had. Eventually, army contractors manufactured watches en masse, for both infantry and pilots. In World War II, the A-11 was a popular watch among American airmen, with its simple black face and clear white numbers for easy readability.