Turning the watch over I see that this watch has a display back so you can view the movement ticking away. The original winding crown in excellent shape, winding and setting smoothly. I particularly like the curved “T Lugs” of this model. The case is 14kt Yellow Gold Electroplated (to 20 microns. complete with little circular notches to play off the rotating crystal “balls” below. The 100% original acrylic crystal is in good condition with a tiny scratch near the 10 o’clock mark. This dial is all original and in excellent condition, featuring a white 60 minute and inlaid enamel marker 12 hour dial, red metal hour and minute hands that rotate around the outer edge and the famous Kaleidoscope center! Signed ERNEST BOREL below the 12 and Modele Depose COCKTAIL Swiss Made at the base. The watches came in Black, Red, Blue (most common), and Green. The dial on this watch is quite unique – both because of the little tiny balls that rotate around above the kaleidoscope dial but also because of its color. It has been fully serviced, cleaned, oiled and timed Its original 17 jewel, Ernest Borel signed Swiss mechanism winds and sets smoothly while keeping accurate time. In inches this works out to be just over 1-1/4” long by 1” wide, not counting the winding crown. This quadruple-signed timepiece measures 33mm lug tip to lug tip and 25mm in width (27mm with original signed crown). What’s even nicer is that this model has little silver “balls” that rotate above this, creating an even more unique look. About no other watch can I say “to see it in action is to appreciate it” for its two revolving gold and white center dials are in constant motion, creating the effect of a flower blossom opening and closing…incredible. The Borel kaleidoscope dial watch is prominently featured in Faber and Unger’s “American Wristwatches: Five Decades of Style and Design” on page 245 – where it states that this watch was first introduced in the late 1940s. The following ladies example dates to early 1970s and was made by none other than the Ernest Borel Watch Company, a respected firm founded in 1859 and located in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The beauty of the famous Kaleidoscope dial “Cocktail” watch. Its face is a constantly changing kaleidoscope of flower like patterns. "Look for the Ernest Borel Cocktail Watch, an amazing 17 jewel timepiece. It was a listing for a shop called Little Switzerland. We found reference to the watches in "The Virgin Islands Daily News" July 1958. I have been told that these watches were never sold in the US, but most were purchased on cruise ships and holidays sort of a high end souvenir of it's day. In addition, I have found "The Cocktail" in automatic men's, watch rings and pendants. With so many variables, such as color, crystal (some diamond cut, some plain) and the hypnotic discs (some have one, some have 2), and the different varieties of the disc designs (flower, star, sun, atom, etc), I have seldom encountered 2 identical watches. I soon became obsessed with them and have gathered a few together to offer for sale. It was a ladies model, white with the original band.
I encountered our first Ernest Borel Cocktail Watch several years ago and were immediately mesmerized by its rotating mystery dial. 8ea806a005 /fake-serial-number-idm-solution-2015-corvette /forum2_theme_112962175.xhtml?tema=114 /kamakurpensres/wolfram-mathematica-8-keygen-free-download /tafarkunscarhie/8/corel-draw-圆-32-bits-keygen-crack/ /album/dorlands-illustrated-medical-dictionary-32nd-edition-ipa-cracked /forum/threads/58640cab002aa8354e8044c1-url-shortener-script-nulled-scripts /forum2_theme_112963883.1960 Ladies Ernest Borel white Kaleidoscope Cocktail Swiss Watch
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EXAMPLE SERIAL NUMBER LOOK-UP: American Waltham Watch Company Approximate Serial Numbers and Production Dates. I HAVE CHECKED WATCH AGAIN NO SIGN OF C OR I ( TVRE ) ARE CLEARBUT U COULD BE D OR C. Cuivre Pocket Watch Identification Serial Number > bit.ly/2iFipQeĪ watch without a front cover is called an open face watch.
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