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

History Of Enicar

1 October 1913, in the Swiss region of Rue du Crêt in La Chaux-de-Fonds was the start of a company to be called Enicar. Enicar is the family name Racine spelled backwards, since the name Racine was already in use since 1870.

They invent various stunts to attract media and consumers. Some watches are attached - for several weeks - to the hull or keel of an ocean steamer to demonstrate how waterproof the watches are. These 'Seapearl' watches - Enicar's version of the Rolex Oyster - are still wanted among divers.

On May 18, 1956 a Swiss expedition reaches the summit of the Lhotse Mountain (8516 meters) in the Himalayas, followed by the summit of the Mount Everest (8848 meters) four days later. All expedition members are wearing an ENICAR Seapearl wrist watch. They all turned out to be very reliable - as the sherpa's were - which led to the brand name ENICAR Sherpa. In 1959 the ENICAR Sherpa-Graph was introduced, featuring the Valjoux 72 movement as the contemporary Rolex Daytona! The ENICAR Sherpa becomes the 'father' of many fashionable watches; over one hundred different designs are leaving the factory.

Swiss made ENICAR watches (1913-1988) were and still are high end wrist watches, that were/are equaling the quality of watches made by Rolex, Omega, IWC and many others. On second hand markets prices are remaining relatively high. Very early AR branded watches and clocks made for the aviation industry have become very rare.

Enicar Unltrasonic

Enicar was created when Artiste Racine (Racine Watch Co.) spelled his name backwards and created a hearty brand that many people are unfamiliar over 90 years later. A special time existed for Enicar in the sixties and seventies when they developed their own automatic movements & focused on sport watches in addition to the rare odd vintage-modern designs.

The watch features a gold hued dial with gold colored hands, Seconds sub dial featured at 6:00 position. The face reads Enicar UltraSonic, 17 Jewel AntiMagnetic. The case back reads Enicar Stainless Steel Back, AnitMagnetic, Swiss Made. Showing minor scratches on the crystal and scratches to the base metal on the case.

Asking
SOLD