For more than a century the company ‘AUGUSTE REYMOND’ has manufactured watches in Tramelan, a village located in the Jura Mountains, the very heart of the Swiss Watch Valley. Few people know that the Auguste Reymond factory gave birth to today’s ubiquitous UNITAS line of sturdy pocket watches & movements. This family owned company manufactures hand-assembled watches in small series made by highly experienced watchmakers in the company’s own workshops in Tramelan. Unfortunately horizontal integration in the Swiss Jura Mountains led the ARSA 6498 patents straight into the portfolio of ETA factories. However, the Tramelan-based watch factory still produces a smaller calendar-enabled iteration of the hand-wound movement, the UNITAS 6425. Sized at 36 mm, this Auguste Reymond Boogie model is the first instance where the brand uses a movement they created themselves. The UNITAS 6425 is 13 lines wide by 4.6 mm thick. The monometallic balance wheel with Incabloc protection is paced at 21,600 A/h (3 Hz) and runs for 48 hours. This particular August Reymond Boogie model from the early 80’s marks a revival of the UNITAS manual calibre produced in the sixties. When created, this model was fully restored and newly decorated for a limited series of 999 watches and represented a fine tribute to the sober and functional creations for which Auguste Reymond has been famous for more than a century. The movement is a mechanical, UNITAS 6425 calibre with appliqué hour markers, small seconds at 6 o'clock and date window at 3 o'clock. The case is polished stainless steel with sapphire crystal and transparent screw-down back. Comments are closed.
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Old Time WatchesI enjoy collecting mechanical (manual wind and automatic) and early electric and quartz timepieces. I take great pleasure in researching and writing about the companies and people that created these beautiful watches. PF
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