It was in 1949 that Walter Gygax launched the Cornavin Watch in Geneva. The watches were very conventional in design—calendar watches, automatic watches, ladies’ watches—and the movements came from the Ebauches SA trust. How Cornavin came to develop a wat...
I’ve simply translated the article from *Time to Tell*, which was originally written in French. I love this watch, and having done some research on it, this is the most comprehensive article out there. Joel Pynson is a walking encyclopedia when it comes t...
to write something ASAP …with Joël about the Vulcain Cricket Nautical… but I still need to gather more information, which isn’t easy… There might be some news regarding La Spirotechnique/Comptoir Commercial des Manufactures/Dodane Triton… A nice diver wit...
But it’s a real headache when it comes to production… different cases (2/3), case backs (3), dials (numerous), and crowns (4, plus a Rolex crown on some military models)… and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to determine which ones belong to the same ba...