#TAVANNES WATCH IDENTIFICATION PORTABLE#

So theВ Cyma movement was put in an English made case and probably marketed with the patent inscription and sold in the USA, I can only assume the watch has travelled back from the US at some stage in its life. The watch like me is in the UK, where I understand that itsВ quite natural for Swiss movements to be in English made cases. To make watch identification even more difficult, the same watch might have a case and timekeeping mechanism manufactured by different companies.

#TAVANNES WATCH IDENTIFICATION PORTABLE#

I was surprised having been searching and assuming the movement was American due to the only visible inscription on the movementВ being the USВ patent., to find it was swiss! I'd not bothered looking at swiss plates. Thousands of manufacturers have produced billions of pocket and wristwatches since people started carrying portable timepieces sometime in the 1500s. Sandoz was a talented engineer and under his direction the company developed its own calibres (watch movements) and also advanced automatic machines (specialised lathes, milling machines, etc.) to manufacture them. This was named after the small Jura mountain municipality of Tavannes in the French-speaking Swiss canton of Bern. If neither method works, take the watch to a professional. If it doesnвЂ™t pry open easily, try to open it by unscrewing it. Carefully try to pry the back cover open, but do not force it. Thanks again, I wasn't suggesting it should be an English movement. In 1891 Henri Sandoz founded the Tavannes Watch Co. Turn the watch on its side and look for a lip or notch in the seam of the back cover. All swiss movements that were to be exported in US, should have this type remontoir. The patent is for negative type remontoir, which was used mostly in US.

So, swiss mowements totally replaced english. Why swiss movement in english case? At that time no english movements were produced that could compete swiss mowements on price and qwality.

Tavannes watch identification