They imagined the future to be digital.....They where not wrong about that... but maybe it did not unfold exactly like this
WRUW today?
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As a retired auto mechanic, I still do a fair amount of project work in my garage. This means my Enicars are sunny day watches. I need a tool watch that can take more than a few shocks and has readily available parts and servicing. So, further heresy, my main watch is a Heuer Autavia 02. As you can see below, it has been getting more than a few nicks and scratches.
Enicar Sherpa GMT
Looks great Nico 
I can imagine it felt nice to get that project finished.
I can imagine it felt nice to get that project finished.
No nonsense tool watch today. Gallet MC12 with EP40-68
Loveley one!
Looks very clean for an actual tool watch!
Love that Kazrich
Kazrich and I have observed that we have similar tastes in watches. This one has come back to me from Gallet service after being gone for quite some time. It is sometimes referred to as an "Evil Snow White."
I have been wearing it every day since the Covid-19 debacle has hit us.
Two shots under differing light:
And . . .
Here is my MC 12H "JC" from another day, shortly after it came back from RGM service:
Each houses an EP40-68 movement as well.
I have been wearing it every day since the Covid-19 debacle has hit us.
Two shots under differing light:
And . . .
Here is my MC 12H "JC" from another day, shortly after it came back from RGM service:
Each houses an EP40-68 movement as well.
As most know, the nicknames we see for our watches were arrived at retrospecticely. Rolex did not call the Daytona the Daytona when it was introduced and there never was a Jim Clark anything.
In the world of U.G., at the time Nina Rindt was married to Jochen Rindt, she wore a UG Compax panda chrono that became later known as the "Nina Rindt."
Univeral Geneve Compax "Nina Rindt", the Watch of a Widow
Subsequently, the UG Compax reverse panda, a watch she did not wear, became known as the "Evil Nina Rindt" apparently owing to it's blackness.
Similar UG Compax watches trimmed out in blue became known as the "Exotic Nina Rindt" model.
In a somewhat similarly whimsical fashion, this particular Gallet MC-12H below became known as the "Snow White", although it is highly doubtful that Snow White ever wore one . . . and as far as we know . . . all seven of her dwarves have remained silent on the subject.
I do not own one of these though I would buy one if I found one at a reasonable price. I do own the two-register 45M version as I have put up previously:
Someone, not I, began referring to the all black version of the MC-12H with no tele/tachy scale as the "Evil Snow White."
It's a bit of nonsense.
As to your second question, Richard . . .
The two MC-12H watches that I own have EP40-68 movements in them, so they appear to have been manufactured sometime between 1968 and when the model was no longer being produced. I understand the final production dates to have extended into the very early 1970s.
According to the present GM of Gallet, the EP40 and EP4 movements underwent a gradual transition. Initially, the movements had fixed stud carriers and heavily weighted balance wheels. In the mid 1960s, EP began to gradually lighten the balance wheel, thinning it out and removing the attached weights and also replacing the fixed stud carrier with a mobile (readily adjustable) stud carrier. EP began stamping the movements with the "68" sometime in 1968. Hence we have the EP40-68 movement and the EP4-68 movement.
My 45M above is not stamped with the "68" but it does have the lightened balance wheel and mobile stud carrier, so it had to have been made sometime between 1965 and 1967.
I hope that I have not overdone it!
By the way, the Mark I Sherpa Graphs use a Valjoux 72 movement with a fixed stud carrier as well. By the time the Mark III arrived, the V72 movement had been upgraded to employ a mobile stud carrier which resulted in the movement becoming much easier to zero the beat error rate.
Sometime between mid 1962 and 1965, the Valjoux 72 was upgraded in a manner similar to what Excelsior Park was doing with their movements.
Thanks for that very detailed and informative answer Joe !
The white dial on your 2 register Gallet almost looks like porcelain and good enough to eat.
They say that a watch often reflects the personality of it's owner.
Jim Clark was a boyhood hero of mine. Not only was he arguably the greatest race driver
of all time but also a successful businessman and farmer.
He was unassuming and modest in character.
The Enicar Sherpa Graph and Gallet MC12 worn by JC match his character in a lovely phrase
very seldom used now days - Quiet money.
The white dial on your 2 register Gallet almost looks like porcelain and good enough to eat.
They say that a watch often reflects the personality of it's owner.
Jim Clark was a boyhood hero of mine. Not only was he arguably the greatest race driver
of all time but also a successful businessman and farmer.
He was unassuming and modest in character.
The Enicar Sherpa Graph and Gallet MC12 worn by JC match his character in a lovely phrase
very seldom used now days - Quiet money.
Richard, I was born in late 1948, and as I was growing up I too became a fan of racing, loosely and intermittently followed the careers of Jim Clark, and also Graham Hill, Innes Ireland, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart, Jim Hall, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi to name a few who pop effortlessly out of my subconscious . . . and others as well.
Jackie Stewart's enthusiasm for the sport was especially on display for all whenever he provided the color (colour) during TV broadcasts.
I suppose that, when we are gone, the grown kids of today will be enthusiastically collecting Apple watches and perhaps iPods and iPads.
One of my granddaughters has already started her fidget spinner collection
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Takes my breath away every time. Simply gorgeous!back to pictures