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#Tavannes watch company history serial number#

One of the most important Cymas in my collection, this R420 KT's movement serial number indicates that it is from 1943 - one of the very first produced - without the Beryllium Omega type movement coating (wartime economies!).Įxamine the photos carefully they form the majority of this historically rare 75+ year old Swiss vintage watch's description. Service/overhaul (110€) for auction keeps timeĬalibre: #R420 KT Google 'Cyma R420 KT ranfft' for details of this landmark movement Movement: Inhouse 17 jewel sweep second 'bumper' automatic with Cymaflex-1 anti-shock. Strap size: Wrist to approximately 19.00cmsĭial: Wonderful off-white with time-earned patina, outer chapter seconds ring and 'Red Tip' sweep second hand Strap type/material: ZRC deployant leather Macro lens used in enlarged photos you'll see things you wouldn't normally. Daylight photos may vary workshop photos taken under special light.

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In 1904 Pritchard notes that Henri Sandoz received two Swiss patents and one US patent for a winding and setting mechanism with few parts.

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In 1966 Tavannes-Cyma ceased production and the rights to the brand name passed to Chronos Holding. Another collector's item is the "Autorotor" self-winding caliber 485, launched in around 1957. This movement was fitted into the square-cased "Watersport" model, for example. The enterprise occupied a model factory employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day. By the time of the death of Sandoz on 18 March 1913, many watches were made under the name of Henri Sandoz & Fils. In 1943 the company launched its first automatic movement, the caliber 420, with a swinging arm winding in one direction. Their new business was known as Tavannes Watch Co. At that time, Tavannes-Cyma claimed to be Switzerland's largest supplier of precision watches. Catalogs from the 1930s also show wrist-chronographs equipped with Valjoux movements. These were followed by "waterproof" versions.

In 1938, around 2000 employees and 2200 machine-tools reached an output of about 4000 watches and movements a day The company's 20th-century product range naturally included wristwatches of the most diverse character - for example the shock-proof models with a protective cover issued to soldiers in 1915. New markets in the Far East and elsewhere gave a noticeable boost to growth. The company continued to expand after the turn of the century.īy around 1905, daily production amounted to some 1000 watches.

Towards 1892 the company entered into a cooperative agreement with Schwob Freres of La Chaux-de-Fonds. The Tavannes Watch Company entered into a partnership with Schwob Frres for sales and marketing, and the brand Cyma was created for this purpose. Some of these went onto the market under the Cyma name. In 1870 master watchmaker Henri-Frdric Sandoz (usually just Henri Sandoz born 1851 Le Locle, died 1913 Tavannes) founded a watch manufacturing company in Le Locle, Switzerland, in his own name: 'Henri Sandoz and Co.' Henri later founded a watchmaking company in Tavannes, which took the name of the town. Forty employees, with the help of 55 modern machine-tools completed more than 40 timepieces a day. The new workshops covered more than 1000 square meters. Further patents ensued, among them for a stem-winding mechanism and a chiming movement. In the nearby town of Tavannes he started a new company for the production of simple and complicated watches, including chronographs, an aptitude for which was proved by a chronograph patent registered in 1890. To get on in his profession he turned his back on his home town of Le Locle and the Henri Sandoz & Co.

Henri Sandoz.įrederic Henri Sandoz was in heart and soul a businessman. Click here for Cyma timepieces currently for sale.įounded 1891 in Tavannes by Tavannes Watch, F.